Why do the children think they are called sunflowers? * Plant the sunflower seeds that come with Mabel's Magical Garden. * What do seeds need to make them grow into flowers? * Where did you plant your seeds? What tools did you use? What kind of flowers will they grow into? * Care for the seeds daily by watering and weeding.Ĭatalogue, seeds, plant, sow, grow, water, sunshine, flowers, gleam, beautiful, lovely, admire, pretty jewels, perfume, smell * Choose a suitable sunny spot for the garden and prepare the soil, or fill pots with compost, and plant the seeds. * Visit a garden centre to buy the seeds. * Suggest making a magical garden like Mabel's and look through catalogues for suitable seeds to produce aromatic yellow flowers. * Look at the pictures of Mabel's garden and emphasise the words used to describe the flowers, for example, 'gleaming in the sunshine', 'pretty jewels', 'smelling like perfume'. * Mabel's Magical Garden * seed catalogues * small garden plot or plant pots and compost * garden tools such as trowels, forks, small spades * watering cans
To handle tools, objects, construction and malleable materials safely and with increasing control To express their ideas, thoughts and feelings by using a widening range of materials, suitable tools, imaginative and role play and designing and making Invite the children to create magical gardens of their own. Listen to the story together before leaving them to use the resources freely.
#THE MAGIC GARDEN STORY HOW TO#
Provide a tape recording of the story and show the children how to operate the playback facility on a tape recorder. Encourage the children to recall the story and explain how the story props were used. * Arrange the story props alongside the small-world equipment. * Supply resources for the children to make flowers, such as yellow card, crepe paper, tissue and fabric scraps and regular collage materials.Įncourage them to refer to the illustrations in the story when designing their own flowers.
* Invite the children to retell the story, using the props, and help them to remember the sequence of events. Have they ever made someone happy or unhappy? How? * Encourage the children to talk about the actions of others that have made them happy or sad. * How does the story start? What do the friends do at the end of the story? * What are the names of the characters in the story? * Why did Mabel build a wall? Why was Mabel sorry that she had built it? * After reading the story, ask questions to encourage the children to consider the consequences of Mabel's actions and to demonstrate their awareness of the elements of stories.įriends, share, sorry, steal, worried, sunshine, inside, outside, seeds, flowers * Introduce the three main characters and move them around as the story progresses.Ĥ Scatter flowers in the other hoop representing George and Nigel's garden.ĥ Create a wall around Mabel's garden (use the roll of card and secure it with sticky tape).Ħ Introduce the bird to the top of the wall and have Mabel climb over the wall.ħ Scatter seeds or blow a dandelion clock over the gardens. * Read the story to the children, pausing at appropriate times to invite them to use the props to:ġ Build a house for Mabel in the centre of a hoop using small bricks. * Cut out lots of yellow paper flower shapes beforehand. * Mabel's Magical Garden (Macmillan Children's Books, 5.99) * yellow paper * scissors * sunflower seeds or dandelion clocks * two hoops * small wooden or plastic bricks * small-world characters to represent Mabel, George and Nigel * long sheet of card * sticky tape * toy bird To show an understanding of the elements of stories, such as main character, sequence of events, and openings To consider the consequences of their words and actions for themselves and others
When a bird persuades Mabel to look over the wall, she finds her friends standing in a meadow of flowers, which they all enjoy together.ĭuring the project, encourage the children to consider the consequences of actions by considering the lengths that Mabel goes to exclude her best friends from her garden when she thinks that they have been stealing her beautiful flowers.īring the story of Mabel's Magical Garden to life with exciting interactive props. But the wall is so high that not even the sun can get in and her flowers start to wilt and die. When Mabel suspects her friends Nigel and George of stealing flowers from her garden, she is furious and builds a wall around her garden to keep them out. Mabel's Magical Garden by Paula Metcalf (Macmillan Children's Books, Pounds 5.99) is about friendship, sharing and the magic of nature. A story of friendship and flowers leads children naturally into creating their own gardens.
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