Age: 3-5 years.
Focus: Anxiety and anxiety associated with separation from the mother and joining the children's group ( kindergarten). Fear of independence, general timidity.
Key phrase: “Don't go. I'm afraid!"

In the garden, on a tall sunflower, lived a large family of sunflower seeds. They lived amicably and cheerfully.

One day - it was at the end of summer - they were awakened by strange sounds. It was the voice of the Wind. It rustled louder and louder. “It's time! It's time!! It’s time!!!” - called the Wind.

The seeds suddenly realized that it was really time for them to leave the basket of their native sunflower. They hurried and began to say goodbye to each other.

Some were taken by birds, others flew away with the wind, and the most impatient ones jumped out of the basket themselves. Those who remained enthusiastically discussed the upcoming journey and the unknown that awaited them. They knew that some extraordinary transformation awaited them.

Only one seed was sad. He did not want to leave his native basket, which had been warmed by the sun all summer and in which it was so cozy.

“Where are you in a hurry? You've never left home before and don't know what's out there! I'm not going anywhere! I’ll stay here!” it said.

The brothers and sisters laughed at the seed and said: “You are a coward! How can you refuse such a trip?” And every day there were fewer and fewer of them in the basket.

And then, finally, the day came when the seed was left alone in the basket. No one laughed at him anymore, no one called him a coward, but no one invited him to come with them anymore. Seed suddenly felt so lonely! Oh! Why didn't it leave the basket with its brothers and sisters! “Maybe I really am a coward?” thought the seed.

It started to rain. And then it got colder, and the wind became angry and no longer whispered, but whistled: “Hurry up!” The sunflower bent to the ground under the gusts of wind. The seed became afraid to remain in the basket, which seemed about to tear off the stem and roll to an unknown destination.

“What will happen to me? Where will the Wind take me? Will I never see my brothers and sisters again? - it asked itself. “I want to be with them.” I don't want to stay here alone. Will I really not be able to overcome my fear?

And then the seed decided. “Come what may!” and, gathering strength, jumped down.

The wind caught it so that it would not get hurt, and carefully lowered it onto the soft ground. The ground was warm, somewhere above the wind was already howling, but from here its noise seemed like a lullaby. It was safe here. It was as cozy here as it once was in a sunflower basket, and the seed, tired and exhausted, fell asleep unnoticed.

The seed woke up early spring. I woke up and didn’t recognize myself. Now it was no longer a seed, but a delicate green sprout that stretched towards the gentle sun. And around there were many of the same sprouts into which his brothers and sisters turned into seeds.

They were all happy to meet again, and they were especially pleased with our seed. And now no one called him a coward. Everyone told him: “You’re great! You turned out to be so brave! After all, you were left alone, and there was no one to support you.” Everyone was proud of him.

And the seed was very happy.

Questions for discussion
What was the seed afraid of? What did the seed decide to do? Did it do the right thing or not? What would happen if the seed continued to be afraid?

Sunflowers smell
Sunny freshness.
Also, definitely
Morning tenderness.
And they always smell
Despite the weather.
Take a look at them
And forget the troubles.
(Author: Alexey Antonov)
The history of the sunflower goes back to the third millennium
B.C. Research shows that already at that time,
even before the “domestication” of cereals, the flower was cultivated
North American Indians. Its seeds were eaten and used in
dyes were produced as medicine. The Incas worshiped the sunflower
like a sacred flower.
To Europe" Sunny flower"came in 1510, he was brought as a "savage"
Spaniards from North America. At first, sunflowers were used to decorate flower beds and front gardens. Later, from wild species, breeders obtained large-fruited
variety. Almost 200 years have passed, when in 1716 in England, there was
A patent has been registered for the production of sunflower oil.
And the first mention of industrial cultivation sunflower dates
1769

The flower was brought to Russia from Holland in the 18th century. However, here
It's worth making a reservation. During excavations of ancient settlements on the territory
Moscow region, dating back to the 7th-5th centuries BC, seeds were found
sunflower. And on the walls of the vessels where food supplies were kept,
preserved remains of oil, very similar in composition to
sunflower. Probably our ancestors knew and even cultivated
this is a plant, but for some reason the flower was forgotten over time.
One way or another, the sunflower counts its years in Rus' from
the times of Peter the Great. During the first hundred years of "life" in
In Russia, the flower was planted to have a “little sun” on
in his garden, and the “husk of seeds on the heap” was the most
favorite holiday of peasants and merchants. The nobles spared no expense
for the arrangement of flower beds with overseas flowers. In Moscow he is like nothing seen before,
They were even grown near the Kremlin wall.
Sunflower oil is widely used as a base for cooking
oil solutions, patches and ointments, used as a laxative
and a choleretic agent in the treatment of inflammatory diseases
intestines and cholelithiasis and for the prevention of atherosclerosis
. Prescribe it 1-2 tablespoons 3-4 times a day. Local
Boiled sunflower oil is recommended as a healing
remedies for fresh wounds and burns in the form of oil dressings.

The name of the plant Helianthus came from Greek language. "Helios" means "sun" and "anthos" translates to flower. Greek
mythology tells about the appearance of this flower
one day a water nymph named Clytia was thrown out of the cool
depths to the shore of a sandy island. Fascinated by the bright light, she
rested on the shore and watched in surprise at the hitherto invisible
a golden solar ball that moved across the sky. It's a sight to behold
It captivated her so much that she wanted to always admire the sunlight.
Clytia's prayers were heard. Her mermaid tail went into the sand,
chaining her to the spot, her silver hair curled into petals
around her face, and green leaves grew from her fingers. Nymph
turned into a sunflower - a flower of the sun, whose color reflects
gold of the solar disk and every day follows its movement.

Another legend about the appearance of a sunflower came to us from
far, far away country of the Aztecs.
They say that this happened a very long time ago. Then in
in the land of the Aztecs there lived a little charming girl with a beautiful
name - Xochitl. In the Aztec language it meant "flower".
The girl adored the sun and admired it from dawn to dusk.
When the sun set in the evening, she walked home sadly, living
the dream that tomorrow she would see him again.
It so happened that for a whole year the sun appeared every day,
and not once, not for a moment did the clouds cover it. For Xochitl it is
it was incredible happiness.
However, what was a joy for her turned out to be terrible.
disaster for maize crops: the stalks stopped stretching upward,
the cobs were not heavy. In addition, beans and peppers stopped growing.
Without rain, all the plants suffered; from thirst they drooped to the very ground.
The drought left the fields barren.
People began to die from hunger. The Aztecs prayed to the gods every day,
asking for rain. Seeing all this, Xochitl understood why people endure
suffering and hunger. To make it rain, she went to the temple
Tonatiuh - the god of the Sun and turned to him with a prayer. She asked
him to hide behind the clouds and save her people.
The little girl's prayer reached the sun god Tonatiuh.
And now the whole sky was covered with a carpet of clouds. The long-awaited rain came.
So much water poured out that the completely bent corn began to cheerfully
rise and all its cobs are swollen with large, full-bodied grains.
Everyone around was filled with joy. Only poor Xochitl was sad:
she suffered without the sun she loved so much. Without him she slowly faded away
but then a bright ray broke through the clouds and ordered Xochitl to go to the sacred village, where the sun never disappears, where flowers always bloom.
There she will be called not Xochitl, but Xochitl-Tonatiu (which in Aztec means “flower of the sun”).
So the lovely girl turned into beautiful flower
sunny color, with a dark core - just like her hair and eyes.
Every day this flower opens towards the sun on
dawn and turns behind him on his daily journey along
sky until sunset...
Since that time, at the beginning of autumn, in all fields, and especially maize,
These golden flowers begin to bloom. The Indians affectionately call them
Xochitl-tonatiu, which means sunflower.

The Russian fairy tale has a similar plot:

Once upon a time there was a girl who loved the Sun. Every morning she
ran out of the house, climbed onto the roof and stretched out her hands
towards the rising luminary.
- Hello, my beautiful lover! - she shouted,
and when the first rays touched her face, she laughed happily,
like a bride who felt the groom's kiss.
All day she looked at the Sun, smiling at him, and when it was shining
went into the sunset, the girl felt so unhappy,
that the night seemed endless to her.
And then one day it happened that the sky was overcast with clouds for a long time and
a dank dampness reigned over the entire land.
Not seeing the bright face of her lover, the girl was out of breath
from melancholy and grief and wasted away, as if from a serious illness. Finally she
couldn’t stand it and went to those lands from where the Sun rises,
because I couldn't live without him anymore.
How long or how short did she walk, but then she came to the ends of the earth,
to the shore of the Sea-Ocean, just where the Sun lives.
As if hearing her pleas, the wind scattered the heavy rays and light
clouds, and the blue sky awaited the appearance of the luminary.
And then a golden glow appeared, which with every moment
it became brighter and brighter.
The girl realized that her lover was about to appear and pressed him
hands to heart.
Finally she saw a light-winged boat drawn by golden swans.
And in it stood an unprecedented handsome man, and his face sparkled so much,
that the last remnants of the fog around had disappeared, like snow in spring.
Seeing her beloved face, the girl cried out joyfully - and immediately
her heart broke, unable to bear the happiness.
She fell to the ground, and the Sun held its light on her for one moment.
shining gaze. It recognized the same girl who always
welcomed his arrival and called out words of passionate love.
“Will I never see her again? - the Sun thought sadly.
“No, I always want to see her face facing me!”
And at that very moment the girl turned into a flower, which
always lovingly turns after the sun.
That's what it's called - sunflower, sunny flower.

It is believed that the sunflower was the herb of frankness. Many in
ancient times believed that if you put a sunflower under your pillow
at night, it will cause prophetic dreams, especially if you
robbed, then the face of the one who stole will appear. Also sunflower, what's it like
also called, used in incense to fight evil spirits
by force. And in order to deceive the deceiving wife clean water, costs
bring a bag of sunflower grass to church and then the infidels
spouses will not be able to leave the building. The flower helped a person to manifest
their best qualities, protect yourself from enemies, many believed
to the good power of the sunflower and maintained this tradition for several
centuries in a row.
According to one of the ancient legends, the gods gave people a sunflower in order to
so that the sun never leaves them. After all, sunflower flowers
always facing the sun, in any weather, even in the most foggy
and a rainy day. It is no coincidence that the sunflower has become a symbol of joy and optimism,
and also loyalty...

One day a small bird was flying and holding several sunflower seeds in its beak. She flew to feed her little chicks, but could not keep all the seeds in her beak and one fell into the ground. Here the seed lies and thinks: “How can this be? I grew up with my brothers and sisters as seeds in a big beautiful sunflower, and now I’m lying alone in the ground. Now I’m useless to anyone, I won’t see anything now, it’s good that at least the bird didn’t eat me.” He lies and is bored. It began to rain, watered the seed, and then the sun came out, warmed the seed, and it began to wonder what was going on up there. The seed reached up towards the sun, stretched, stretched and... a small green sprout appeared from under the ground. It was he who began to grow from our seed. The seed-sprout looked around, he liked it above the ground, the sun warms him, the breeze blows him. And the sprout began to grow upward. It grows, reaches out to the sun, the rain gives it water, the sprout is doing well. Soon our sprout turned into a stalk and every day it became taller and taller, new green leaves appeared on it. A few weeks later, a large yellow bud grew on the stem, the petals of the bud began to slowly bloom, and now a beautiful sunflower flower raised its head to the sky towards the sun. “Oh, what a beautiful sunflower I have turned into!” thought the former little seed. Soon inside big flower a lot of white-green seeds appeared, the seeds ripened and became black. The sunflower shook his head, smiled at the sun and thought: “How amazingly this world works! Just recently, my brothers and sisters and my sunflower seeds lived peacefully in a large, beautiful sunflower. A bird flew in, grabbed me in its beak, but couldn’t hold me and dropped me to the ground. Then I sprouted, turned into a sprout, then into a stem, grew, grew and became a big real yellow sunflower. Now I myself have a lot of small black seeds, which will soon scatter everywhere and big beautiful sunflowers will grow from them, looking like little suns.”

One day a little sprout took for itself important decision. He told everyone that he wanted to be like the Sun. Let's read a fairy tale about this..

"Generous Sunflower"
Author of the tale: Iris Review

When a sprout I know was little, he decided that when he grew up, he would be like the Sun. Everyone looks like someone. Lily of the valley flowers look like white pearls, bell flowers look like real bells.

“Everyone likes the sun,” the sprout reasoned, “golden, tall, round.” That's how I will be.

Time passed, the summer sun warmed the earth well, the warm rain fed every living thing on earth to its full. And our familiar sprout rose, became strong and strong.

And he really became like the Sun. He had a huge yellow flower, reaching for the real sun.

They began to call him Sunflower. During the day, the Sunflower turned its head following the Sun, and at night he lowered it down - that’s how he slept.

And by autumn, the head of the Sunflower was already tightly packed with delicious seeds.

The sunflower turned out to be not only similar in appearance to the sun, but also as generous as it. People learned to make halva from sunflower seeds, sunflower oil, kozinaki; and the seeds themselves are a healthy and tasty treat.

This is how the Sunflower turned out!

Questions for the fairy tale “The Generous Sunflower”

What did the little sprout decide to look like?

What helped the sprout become strong and strong?

Have you seen a real sunflower?

When does a sunflower produce seeds: in spring, summer or autumn?

How many sunflower seeds does a sunflower have?

What can be made from sunflower seeds?