Sunflowers
To enhance children’s play-reading experience, let students don
sunflower face masks. Provide children with large yellow paper plates and help them cut
out eye and mouth holes. Then hand out unshelled sunflower seeds, glue, and yellow and
orange paper. Invite students to glue seeds around the center of the plate, and to glue
cutout paper petals around the plate’s rim. Show them how to tie the masks on with
string. For more fun, invite students to make “bees” out of cotton balls and
construction paper scraps. Students can cut out tiny features and glue them onto the
cotton balls to make bee faces and antennae. Invite the “sunflowers” to wear their
masks during readings of the play, while the “bees” go visiting from flower to flower.
Characters:
Sunflower Group 1
Sunflower Group 2
 Sunflower
Group 1: We are sunflowers.
Sunflower Group 2: We look like the sun.
Sunflower Group 1: We grow in a field.
Sunflower Group 2: We have lots of fun.
Sunflower Group 1: We are taller than grass.
Sunflower Group 2: We are shorter than trees.
Sunflower Group 1: We have many friends.
Sunflower Group 2: Our best friends are bees.
Sunflower Group 1: They visit a lot.
Sunflower Group 2: And then they go home.
Sunflower Group 1: Even though they leave,
Sunflower Group 2: We are not alone.
Sunflower Group 1: We have each other as you can see.
Sunflower Group 2: We are a happy flower family!
The End
By Carol Pugliano-Martin
From 25 Just-Right Plays for Emergent Readers
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