Flower pressing Christian kids activity.

As a wise man once said, The spring is sprung, the grass is riz!

Where I am in the world there are pretty spring flowers bursting out of the ground and from the branches of the trees everywhere I look. Things may look different where you are in the world, but this fun activity can be done with leaves and plants as well as flowers.

Go out into your neighbourhood and collect the most attractive specimens you can, even a busy side-walk can harbour some surprising flora if you look hard enough!

Spend some time looking at a website such as:
http://www.opalexplorenature.org/Identification (UK)

Elsewhere in the world search online for 'Kids' plant identification' and you're bound to find a site for your regional plant life.

When you've identified some of your specimens, write a little tag for them and press them between the pages of a big heavy book. If the book is valuable to you, them fold several sheets of copier paper to work as extra pages and protect the book itself from staining caused by the plants.

Talk to your child about how we like to preserve and keep safe the things that are precious to us, and in the same way God wants to keep us safe and secure.

In the same way that we put precious flowers in our books, our names are written in the book of life, and will never be removed! Amen to that!

We are safe with God forever. Perhaps one day in uears to come your child will open that book, and see the flower, and remember how they are safe in god's hands.