Color me happy! (A colors and math story)

Blossom Windspan was a sweet little Fairy of only 150 Years. For us humans that might be old, but for a Fairy that is barely past childhood. She was a very hardworking Fairy; always watching over her assigned flowers, talking with the Bumble Bee’s to make sure her flowers got the necessary attention so they could spread and grow. She made sure to speak with the little caterpillars so they wouldn’t eat too much of the flowers leaves. She counted her flowers daily to make sure none were broken, stolen or trampled on. Each day she set and counted the red Roses: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10. Each morning she counted her Carnations: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, and 15. Each evening she counted the Daisies in her field: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, and 20. Blossom Windspan loved all her flowers and she especially loved the beautiful colors of her flowers. Looking at all the beautiful Colors made Blossom very, very happy. She had 4 cherry red Roses, 4 cardinal red Roses and 2 bold fire engine red Roses. She had 2 soft pink Carnations, 6 red Carnations, 4 yellow Carnations and 3 white carnations. Her Daisies all where a lovely creamy white with yellow centers. They were beautiful. One morning Blossom went to count her …… (What does she count in the morning?). Very good, you paid wonderful attention. Her Carnations but to her big surprise they had all lost their colors. Now they were just a boring gray. Blossom was not very happy; she cried big fat fairy tears. Of course, there is nothing sadder then a sweet little Fairy crying. A Badger came up and looked at Blossom. “What is wrong Blossom? Why are you crying?”
Blossom pointed to her flowers. The Badger looked and new just what to do. He gathered a bunch of his friends and went Berry collecting. When he came back he had blackberries, blueberries and raspberries. He walked over to 3 of the carnations and squeezed the juice of the blackberries all over them. The almost instantly turned a dark purplish color. Blossom looked at this and started clapping her hands. Then Badgers Friend took a large paw full of blueberries and squeezed the berries over 7 of the carnations. Almost instantly they turned a bright blue. Blossom started laughing; she never had blue Carnations before. The last Badger friend took the raspberries and squeezed them over the last ________ (how many Carnations are left?) Very good, you did a great job. If you said 5 you are correct. Now the last 5 Carnations were a lovely red. Blossom was very, very happy. I guess you could say that the Badgers had colored her happy.

Would you like to try to color Blossom happy? I thought you would. Why don’t you take the 20 Daisies and imagine that all suddenly went gray. Can you draw 20 Daisies for me on a plain piece of paper? (Mom, please help your kid draw a couple of Daisies so they know how to draw them) Now you need to pick 5 colors you really like. Use those 5 colors to color Blossoms Daisies in. You can do as many per color as you like, but you need to use each color and you have to have all 20 colored in nicely. Why don’t you do it and then ask leave me a message here or ask your Mommy to do it for you, letting me know how many daisies you used per color.
Talk to you soon!