Monthly Archives: June 2013

I wanted to share these from my practicum just last month. Made these with my grade 2’s during my first week at the school. I knew the class was growing vegetables in the garden outside so I wanted to use some vegetable stamps in an art project. At first I thought about using potatoes, but these flowers just turned out so well. We used the stub of a celery, bok choy and okra. Some of the students in the class recognized bok choy and okra from the cooking their parents make at home. Bok choy is common in many asian dishes and okra is used in a lot of south asian dishes. My mom makes a curry called bhindi with okra and I always called it flower curry as a child.

Later that week when I started “Stone Soup” with the class to begin our fairy tales and folk tales unit I was pleasantly surprised to see that many students included these vegetables in their list of ingredients and illustrations for stone soup. I am always impressed at how children make connections.

In all, the prints made beautiful mother’s day cards. I loved how each student customized their print a little bit with the leaves they drew or how they chose to fill the space. I was really happy to show the class vegetables from different cultural cuisines. My cooperating teacher had a really nice poem for the students to write inside as well, turned out to be a very pretty and striking mother’s day gift.