Move from flowers as things to look at to flowers as things we smell, eat, take as medicine, dye cloth with and decorate with.
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Flowers used for making perfumes, and flowers cooked as vegetables
In our day-to-day life, we use flowers in different ways.
Some flowers have a very pleasant fragrance. These are used for making perfumes. Rose, jasmine, keora and lavender are some of such flowers.
The chapter's labelled photographs of keora, lavender, banana, kachnar and sahjan
Rose, jasmine and lavender go into perfumes. Kachnar and banana flowers are cooked as vegetables.
Two questions separating flowers used for scent from those eaten
Evaluate the following statement based on the chapter: Lavender is cooked and eaten as a vegetable.
Cloves, arnica, rose water, cosmetics, dyes and decoration
Some flowers are used as medicines. Cloves are the dried flower buds from the clove plants. The oil extracted from cloves is used as a medicine.
Similarly, lotion made from arnica flower is used to cure wounds and injuries. Rose water is used as a medicine and also for adding flavour to sweets and drinks.
The chapter's photographs of marigold and zenia
Marigold and zinnia flowers are used to make colours for dyeing cloth.
Three items from the chapter's exercises on medicine, dye and plucking
Different flowers have diverse and vital uses in our daily lives. Many people do not realize that common plant parts can heal us. For example, oil, extracted from cloves, is used as a . There are other medicinal plants found in nature as well. It is useful for curing wounds and injuries, such as the lotion made from flower. Rose water is also applied in similar ways or used to flavour sweets and drinks. Because flowers offer us so many benefits, from healing to making perfumes, we must protect them from being unnecessarily. We should always appreciate their value in nature and not destroy them for fun.
The chapter's activities on flowers used as food, decoration and in bouquets
Check if your family uses any of the flowers mentioned in the chapter.
Think of events or public spaces.
Observe how flowers are sold commercially.
This is a fun, creative way to reuse fallen flowers instead of plucking fresh ones.