Your Sunflower Guide

We are excited to introduce our sunflower theme and Here is some more information to support you in being able to tailor the activities to suit the needs of your residents.

The three

Skills

Through the different steps of the activity, growing sunflowers requires a range of abilities. Help your residents to take part in this activity by reading through these steps.

Skills

Benefits

We've provided a list of all the possible benefits that growing sunflowers can bring to your residents, to your local neighbourhood and to the planet!

Benefits

Changes

Check out our advice about changing this activity to match the needs of individual residents.

Find out more

Steps & Skills

step 1: Place the coir disc inside the cardboard pot
step 2: Place pot inside a tray or large bowl
step 3: Pour water into pot(s) completely covering the coir disc and leave to absorb water for 10 mins.

To differing degrees, all the steps above use draw on the following skills and abilities of residents:

Hearing & following instructions in sequential steps;

Scanning, seeing, recognizing, locating and placing materials; strength & movement in hand and wrist
Using both eyes. arms, hands in a coordinated way
Holding, handling, grasping and placing sunflower seeds

Benefits

Changes

There are lots of ways to take the essence of this activity and make it suitable to residents who are being nursed in bed, those who require more 1:1 support.