During an exploration of the school garden with Class 3-302, I pointed out all the tiny, purplish flowers growing in the lawn. Wild violets! I explained to the kids that the flowers are edible. They could hardly believe it. Then I popped one of the colorful morsels into my mouth to prove it. Yummy! Before I knew it, all the kids were harvesting handfuls of violets for themselves and loving them.
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| Wild Violets |
And so many people just think these spring bloomers are pesky weeds! Prettiest weed I've ever seen.
In fact, all flowers in the "viola" family -- and that includes pansies, violets, and johnny jump-ups -- are safe to eat. And they look lovely in a salad.
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| Johnny Jump-Up |
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| Pansies |
CAUTION: NEVER EAT PLANTS, FLOWERS OR BERRIES UNLESS YOU KNOW THEY ARE EDIBLE. ASK A KNOWLEDGABLE ADULT!!!
1 comment:
Hey Ms. Seitz,
Tasfiya here from 4- 127 in Ms. Lane's class. it seems pretty cool to eat those edible flowers.Can you have my class "munch on wild violets." It seems cool to actually EAT flowers. im LOVING your blog. i check it out everyday to see if there are any new posts on the blog.By the way, the science test was SO easy! the experiments was fun and the written was REALLY easy. you sure did do a good job teaching us! :)
-----Tasfiya Kashem
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