Look for color in the stems and buds of bushes, and in the tiny twigs of many trees.
For willow catkins spring chooses her daintiest colors: soft silvery grays; rosy pink; pale green; bits of yellow; and never are two dressed alike! Paint them as they look now.
Would you like to tell the story of the life of the bean from seed to fruit?
You can tell it by shadow pictures.
Now let us paint its flower and fruit.
Look closely at the shape of each pod.
Show by the stem how your bean grows.
This little wild fellow of the woods is very like another flower we love. The other is a queenly lady in pure, spotless white. Her name is calla lily. Tell how the two plants are alike; how unlike.