Candida Martinelli's Italophile Site
Main
Page This family-friendly site celebrates Italian culture for the enjoyment of children and
adults. Site-Overview
This clock ticks by the seconds with a honeybee, and the pot is the
clock pendulum, swinging with each click. For the read sunflower
fanatic! 39$ from
FunClocks.com.
They have other
flower and
sunflower-clocks to choose from.
Click
here or on one of the posters
below to go to my page
that shows you more and tells you
where to buy them.
Silk flower arrangement
Click
here or on these two photos
below to go to my page that shows you more images and tells
you where to get them for free. Some are screensavers.
These are two of the sunflower greeting cards
available from a free Dutch e-card
site. The card text is in
English and the instructions in Dutch so it will be an adventure to send
them unless you know both languages. Click on one of the cards to
go to their page. Sunflower
Coloring Pages for Children Books
and Calendars about Sunflowers
Self-Sticking Sunflower Accents Wallpaper
Murals of Sunflowers Many people
associate sunflowers with Tuscany, Italy. Actually they are grown in
many regions of the country, even more in Umbria than in Tuscany. The cultivation of sunflowers in southern Europe took off when the
European Union offered generous subsidies for the cultivation of oil
producing sunflowers in an effort to reduce the embarrassing wine and
milk lakes their other subsidies had created. Whether it has been
successful is debatable, but it has certainly brightened up the
countryside of Italy, France and Spain. If you can't have freshly cut sunflowers around the house, images of
sunflowers can pick you up just the same. I've put together two
pages of images and links to where you can get them for free, and some
you can buy. The first page shows images from a poster company that sells over
the Internet. They offer artwork and photo posters in many
different sizes. Some of the images on this page are from their
selection. Click here or on the happy sunflower, to the right, to access
that page. The second page is of free images of sunflowers.
One images from a free screen saver and
wallpaper company that allows you to download 5 images a day,
including many of sunflowers and Italy, and from hundreds of other
categories. There is also a link to a site that offers free
images of sunflowers and Italy. Some of the images on this
page are from these sites. Click here
or on the fast-growing sunflower in
the pot, to the right to go to that page. For children, you can print out a page-sized
sunflower like those above for them to color. Click here
or on one of the
images above to go to the Coloring Pages from where they can be
printed. And they have an online sunflower 'slider
puzzle'. And garden
coloring pages with fruit and vegetables. A color-by-number
sunflower coloring page. A big
sunflower to color from Primary Games. Potted
sunflowers to color, and more
potted sunflowers. A beautiful wildflower
sunflower to color. A big
sunflower from Kansas to color. I've made some Coloring Pages too,
of Italian-related things, including some sunflowers (A
Swag of Sunflowers, Potted Sunflowers).
Victoria's
Sunflower Photo Links Ohio State University offers a fact
sheet on sunflowers that is succinct and helpful if you are
planning to grow and eat the seeds. The Horticultural Home Pest News offers an on-line history
of sunflowers. It's actually very interesting; the kind of
trivia you can use to win games with, or to scare away unwanted
company. Click here
to read how sunflowers came from the Americas, went to Russia, and came
back again better than before. And there is a National
Sunflower Association site with lots of info, too. Be sure to
come back here after checking out these links. There's lots more
below! Here are a few books aimed at teaching children about sunflowers,
available from Amazon.com.
I've created some free art prints of Sunflowers you can download
and print out on a color printer. I've applied a simulated wax coating to free images of Italy, and
come up with six series of prints, post-card sized. You can always
enlarge them if you wish, but remember, you use more colored ink
printing a large image. I've placed them in MS-Word documents so they are ready to print.
You can also download the image itself, as always, by using the right
mouse button. They look best when printed on matte photo paper,
and are beautiful framed in groups. Small versions of the Sunflower prints appear in the left column of
this page. You can click on one of them, or here,
to link to the gallery page that has all the instructions you need.
From the gallery page, you can visit the other five galleries of prints
or click on the links below. Farm
- 5 images Florence
- 4 images Rome
- 6 images Sunflower
- 4 images Venice
- 6 images Village
- 5 images
My list of books about
sunflowers at Amazon.com My list of sunflower
calendars at Amazon.com If you want to find more specific books about sunflowers at Amazon.com, you can use this Search tool. Just enter 'Books' in the 'Search' field, and 'sunflower history'
(for example, or 'sunflower gardens'...) in the 'Keyword' field.
Then click on the 'Go' button to see the resulting list. Here are a two sunflower items from Amazon: a grow chart and a
sprinkler.
The Free Art Prints of Sunflowers below are from my site.
They look wonderful framed and hung as a set. Just click on one to see how
to download them. You need to have a color printer, and they look
best on photo paper.
And
here are some sunflower
wallpaper murals. Just click on the image to go to the
on-line seller where you'll find, size, price, availability information,
and a larger image.
To see more images and to find out more about decorating with wallpapers
murals (and posters), see my Wallpaper Mural page. Sunflower
Door Swag - Taupe Color Sunflower
Door Swag - Yellow Color
Visit my Angels in Italian Art Page
Sunflowers
- Girasole - Images, Info, Coloring Pages, Wallpaper Murals,
Children's Projects...
Introduction
Images of Sunflowers
Sunflower
Coloring Pages for Children
All About Sunflowers
Free Art Prints of Sunflowers
Books About Sunflowers
Sunflower Wallpaper Murals
