Ira and the Happy Seed Song(Written for my granddaughter, Ira, when she was not yet one year of age!)
One day,
Ira’s Mummy and Daddy took her to a garden. It had soft green grass and lovely
flowers.
The flowers were in many sizes, big and small. They were in all kinds
of colors – red, yellow, white, orange, purple, and pink. The flowers waved at
Ira as she walked past them, and she smiled back at them. You see, Ira loved
flowers!
She liked one little flower more than all the others. It was pink and
its petals were so very pretty. Iru asked Mummy if they could take it home. So Mummy
took her to a shed in the garden where they sold seeds in little bags. Iru
chose a bag with a picture of little pink flowers on it.
When Iru
came home, Mummy helped her put some soil in a little blue pot. Iru put a seed
deep into the soil and then covered the seed with some more soil. She took her
toy watering can and poured water in the pot. Not too much and not too little!
Iru did it just right!
Do you know why? It was because Mummy had taught Iru to sing
The Happy Seed Song. This is what she sang:
In
a little pot
Is
a little seed
Put
it and pat it
And
just let it feed
On
a little water
On
a little sun
On
a little air
Isn’t
that fun!
Upward
and upward
One
little shoot
Downward
and downward
One
little root
Give
it some water
Give
it some sun
Give
it some air
That’s
such fun!
The
seed will grow
Big
and strong
Just
like Iru
Who
sings this song
So now you
know how Iru took such good care of her little seed. You see, she knew exactly what
to do because of the Happy Seed Song.
One morning,
when Iru woke up, what did she see? One little seed had woken up too, and a
tiny green shoot had pushed its way out of the soil. Iru smiled at the little
shoot. “Good morning, little shoot,” she said.
Then,
another day, Iru woke up to see the shoot had grown into a little plant. It had
teeny weeny little leaves on it. Iru was so happy.
And then,
another morning, Iru awoke to see that her little plant had grown a lovely pink
flower. It was the nicest pink flower you could ever have seen. It had five
little petals and a pretty green stalk with a tiny, curly leaf. The flower
smiled at Iru, and Iru laughed out loud. She had a flower of her own. It was
such a pretty flower too!
Mummy gave
Iru some paper and pencils and colors.
Iru sat in front of the flower and drew it on her paper. How well she
drew! Then she colored the petals in pink and the stalk and the leaves in green
and the little pot in blue. What a nice picture it was! Daddy and Mummy loved
Ira’s picture and they put it up where everyone could see it.
Now Ira has
her little pink flower with her all the time!
What color do you like best in
flowers? Just go with your Mummy or Daddy to the garden and bring home a seed.
The Happy
Seed Song will tell you what to do and you’ll have the prettiest flower in the
world – just like Ira does.
