Garden and Flower Theme

Your students will love these garden and flower theme activities.  These fun and hands-on activities will be perfect for spring or a plant science unit.

Plant Activities for Preschoolers

Find simple, age-appropriate, engaging, & meaningful plant activities for preschoolers. Keep kids interested in science with these fun ideas. Teach about the life cycle of a plant, parts of a plant, and all about plants and seeds with this packet of printables. It's easy to set up a hands-on plant & seed investigation in your preschool or pre-k science center. These ideas are perfect for your garden theme or during spring and summer. Click to find lots of simple science ideas today.

10+ Flower Science Activities

Your preschoolers will love learning about flowers with these fun, hands-on, engaging flower science activities. Perfect for your flower theme, garden theme or spring theme unit, and lesson plans in your preschool or pre-k classroom & science center. Much more than a color-changing flower experiment! Your kids will study flowers through a scientific investigation, learn the life cycle of flowers, the parts of a plant, the parts of a flower, and will learn about and plant seeds

Improve Cutting Skills with Flower Printable

Kids will love these free flower theme printables. The flower activities will help them improve their cutting skills. These fun art activities ideas are a great addition to your flower theme, garden theme, or spring theme unit or lesson plans in your preschool, pre-k or kindergarten classroom. Better than worksheets, these flower templates are perfect for building scissor skills. Ideas for open-ended creation...more than a craft project and perfect for bulletin boards #finemotor #preschool

Learning Activities with Plastic Eggs

Here are many ways you can use simple plastic eggs in learning activities for preschoolers. Ideas include music and movement, counting, sorting, sensory play and STEM and so much more. These activities are perfect additions to your bird theme, Easter theme, spring theme unit and lesson plans in your preschool, pre-k and kindergarten classroom. Perfect for literacy centers, math centers, fine motor centers, and STEM centers. Get out those plastic Easter eggs and start learning #preschool

How to Make a Spring Weight Station

Get out your balance scale or bucket scale!  Here are lots of spring and summer-themed material ideas that you can use in your weighing station. Create a weight station in your math center, science center, or STEM center. Find lots of material ideas and printables to create your own measurement learning center in your preschool, pre-k and kindergarten classroom. Perfect for Easter theme, garden theme, bug theme, weather theme, ocean theme etc. Your kids will love this hands-on math activity.

Fine Motor Activity: Beaded Feather Necklace

These feather necklaces are a fun fine motor activity for kids and are a perfect addition to a Thanksgiving, turkey, or Spring birds theme unit or lesson plans. The article also includes ideas for working on math concepts like counting, comparing quantities, and creating patterns. This is a perfect hands on math and fine motor activity for your preschool, pre-k and kindergarten classroom. #preschool #finemotoractivities

Make a Plant Themed Invitation to Play

Make a plant theme playdough invitation to play. Here are lots of material ideas to make an exciting plant & garden theme playdough tray. This is a great hands-on fine motor and sensory activity for your garden theme, plants theme, spring theme, or Earth Day theme unit or lesson plans in your preschool or pre-k classroom. Kids will love planting plants and seeds in the brown playdough and will have opportunities for math and literacy learning as they create with worms. #preschool #playdough

How to Assemble a Fun Flower Playdough Tray

Create a fun flower playdough tray for your kids with these unique material ideas. Your kids will love this open-ended, flower-themed activity. Material and easy ideas for a playdough invitation to play for your flower theme, garden theme or spring theme unit or lesson plans. Add playdough mats for literacy and math learning. Perfect for your preschool or pre-k classroom and fine motor learning centers. Your kids will have fun making flower-themed creations. #preschool #playdough #finemotor

10 of the Best Plant, Seed, and Garden Books for Preschool

Find the best plant, seed, and garden books for preschoolers. These favorites will be great additions to your classroom library and perfect for your plant theme, garden theme, or spring theme unit and lesson plans. Use the childrens books at circle time, or on your science table. Kids will have fun learning about vegetables, flowers, science and plant life cycles. #preschool #planttheme #gardentheme #prek

20 of the Best Bug and Insect Books for Kids

Here are some of the best bug and insect books for your kids. Your kids will love these selections.  Use them in your class library, in your science area or at circle time. Butterflies, bees, caterpillars, beetles, ladybugs, and more. These books are a great addition to your bugs and insects theme, butterfly theme, outdoor theme, or camping theme unit and lesson plans in your preschool and pre-k classroom. Learn fun facts about insects, life cycles and honey bees. #preschool #prek

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Make a Simple Butterfly Playdough Tray

Here are lots of ideas to create a fun and engaging butterfly themed playdough tray for your kids. They will not be able to resist this invitation to play. Perfect for your butterfly theme, spring theme, Very Hungry Caterpillar theme, or bugs and insect theme unit or lesson plans in your preschool classroom. Great for play-based and hands-on learning and fine motor skills practice. Lots of ideas for additional materials. #playdough #preschool #invitationtoplay

Easter Playdough: Make a Bunny Invitation to Play

Make cool textured playdough and a fun bunny-themed invitation to play. Your kids will love this bunny-themed Easter playdough activity. This is the perfect fine motor activity for your kids in preschool and pre-k classroom. There are lots of material ideas that will help you make a fun open-ended, creative activity for your play dough center or table. Perfect for your pets theme, bunny theme, Easter theme, or spring theme unit and lesson plans #playdough #easteractivities

Insect Activities That Will Excite Your Kids

Find lots of fun insect activities & ideas for your preschool and pre-k classroom. These activities are perfect for your insects & bugs theme, Spring theme, or outdoor theme units and lesson plans. From lady bugs to the Very Hungry Caterpillar you will find science, circle time, gross motor, sensory bins, dramatic play, literacy activities, math activities and craft ideas featuring insects and bugs. Kids will have so much fun learn about insects and their life cycles. #preschool

Make the Best Bug Themed Playdough Invitation to Play

Create a bug themed playdough invitation to play with these material ideas. Your kids will have a blast with this activity. It's perfect for your bugs and insects theme, camping theme, outdoor theme, spring theme, summer theme units and lesson plans in a preschool or pre-k classroom. Kids can make bugs, create insect habitats. There are also ideas to add math and literacy learning activities to this play based learning center. Add ladybugs, spiders, bees, etc. #preschool #playdough

How to Make a Caterpillar Patterning Activity

This cute caterpillar pattern activity combines fine motor skills, math, and craft. Your kids will enjoy creating patterns and counting as they make caterpillars. This is a great patterning activity for your bugs & insects theme, butterfly & caterpillar theme, or spring theme units and lesson plans in your preschool or pre-k classroom. Works well when studying caterpillar life cycles and it's a perfect addition to a study of the Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle. #preschoolactivities

Bunny Juice Box Wrap

Here is the perfect, simple snack idea for your kids Easter party or Spring celebration. Use the free printable juice box wrap to make a cute bunny juice box. Complete them with pom-poms or cotton balls for tails. Your kids will love these little rabbits. They are the perfect snack addition to your Easter theme, spring theme, or bunny theme unit and lesson plans in your preschool or pre-k classroom. #preschool #preschoolsnack

A Free Bird Counting Book

Your kids will love this adorable bird-themed free counting book. The emergent reader contains predictable text, counting from 0-5, and even a surprise ending that will delight your kids. Two versions are included. Kids can read the 0-5 number book or they can print the numeral or number word on the pages. Perfect for your spring theme, bird theme, forest animal theme unit or lesson plans in your preschool, pre-k or kindergarten classroom. Download your freebie today. #preschool

Make a Stained Glass Craft

Your kids will be memorized by this cellophane stained glass craft. It's fun way to explore color with kids. Use this as a process art activity and fun way for teaching color mixing and transparency. It's a great sensory activity that can even be used on a light table in your preschool or pre-k classroom. Children will love to experiment while learning about colors (red, blue, yellow, green..), color mixing and the science of color.

Easter Crafts: Make Bunny Bags

Making bunny bags is one of my favorite Easter crafts for preschoolers. Transform a simple lunch bag into an adorable bunny work of art...complete with a cotton ball tail. The cute bags make a great activity at a kids Easter or birthday party....and they can be used for goody, treat, or favor bags. This craft idea is great for your Easter theme, bunny theme or spring theme unit or lesson plans in preschool, pre-k or kindergarten. #preschool #bunnyactivities #preschooleasteractivities

Flower Literacy Activities

Your kids will love this hands-on flower them literacy activity. Use it to teach letters, letter recognition, letter sounds, beginning sounds and phonological awareness. The printables are perfect for a preschool and pre-k classroom - a perfect addition to your literacy centers for a flower theme, spring theme, garden theme or mothers day theme unit, and lesson plans. The printables are easily adapted for individual students..ideas are included. #preschoolactivities #alphabetactivities

Printable Flower Book

Kids will love these free flower books. They can learn color words as they read the simple, predictable text. The checklist on the last page serves as a great review or can be used as a flower scavenger hunt. Perfect for your spring garden theme, Earth Day theme, plants theme, or flowers theme unit or lesson plans in your preschool or pre-k classroom. Take the free printables to the playground or on a walk through the neighborhood or use in your writing center. #preschool #preschoolactivities

Bunny Activities That will Make You Smile

From learning activities to crafts, find many fun bunny activities for your kids. Ideas are perfect for your Easter theme or spring theme unit and lesson plans in preschool and pre-k. Find math activities, literacy activities, fine motor activities, sorting activities, book ideas, etc. Your kids will have so much fun with these Easter activities...including some free printables. Get out your pom-poms and check out these Bunny themed ideas. #preschool #preschooleaster #springactivities

Make Frog Dancing Ribbons for Your Kids

Make fun frog themed dancing ribbons with rubber flying frogs and some ribbon. The fun ribbons can be used for your frog theme or pond theme, or spring theme unit or lesson plans in preschool, pre-k and kindergarten classroom. Use them for dancing gross motor, and movement activities, counting activities, syllable activities etc. With some assistance you can make them as a craft project. Get out the green ribbon to make some jumping frogs dancing ribbons for your kids. #frogactivities

Nature Scavenger Hunt Book

Use these free printable nature scavenger hunt books to encourage kids to write, draw, and read while exploring their world. Perfect for pre-k, preschool or kindergarten age kids. Use the free printables in the classroom, on the playground, during nature walks or hikes, on camping trips, in the backyard, or during summer camp. Use this emergent reader for your plant and seeds theme, spring theme, and pond theme unit and lesson plans. #preschool #preschoolactivities

Letter Rock Name Activities

Use letter rocks for a fun name activity in your early childhood classroom. Learn how to make the letter rocks. They are simple and easy to make, and can be used for many hands-on literacy activities for kids. Perfect for your literacy center, sensory table or sensory bin your preschool or pre-k classroom. Your children will love these name activity ideas as part of your frogs theme, pond theme, spring theme, or construction theme unit and lesson plans. #preschool #nameactivities

How to Make an Egg Shaker

Looking for a fun arts and crafts for kids?  Learn how to make these cute egg shakers!  Ideas to incorporate STEM, math, language, and music & movement activities are included. This fun project is perfect for your Easter theme, spring theme, birds theme, or five senses theme unit or lesson plans...or any time of year in your preschool or pre-k classroom.  Get out your plastic Easter eggs and make fun instruments to use in your circle time activities. #preschool #preschoolactivities

Make a Frog Counting Activity

Young kids will enjoy this frog counting activity. Use my free printable template to make numbered lily pads. Kids will enjoy using the number lily pads in a sensory bin, water table, or a container filled with water. Perfect for your frog theme, pond theme, or spring theme unit and lesson plans in your preschool or pre-k classroom. I enjoy using these with water beads for sensory paly...fun water play learning activity for kids. Frog life cycle. Frog hands-on learning #preschool #preschoolmath

Feather Fine Motor Activity

Are you looking for fun fine motor activities for kids? Here is a really simple feather fine motor activity that your kiddos will enjoy.  You only need a couple supplies to keep your kids' fingers busy in the sensory bin.  Activities are perfect for preschool, pre-k, and OT.  This is a great addition if you are teaching a bird theme, turkeys theme, or Thanksgiving theme unit. #preschool #finemotoractivities

Flower Fine Motor Activities

Make fun flower activities for kids with dollar store silk flowers. In addition to matching colors, making patterns, and a flower shop dramatic play kids these activities are great for working on fine motor skills. A perfect hands-on addition to your spring theme, flowers theme, Mothers Day theme, plant theme, or summer theme units and lesson plans. Appropriate for preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, prep math centers and math work stations. Fine motor centers, flower counting, gardens theme

Flower Color Sorting Activities

Here are a couple flower color sorting activities that you can make with a Hawaiian lei. Kids can work on color sorting, number sense, and patterning with these cute activity ideas. Perfect for your flowers theme, plant theme, spring theme, summer theme units and lesson plans. For your tot school, pre-k, and preschool class math centers or math work stations. teach colors, color sorting, color matching, flower activity ideas.

How to Make Dancing Ribbons

Here is an easy craft for kids. Make simple dancing ribbons on a budget with a few simple supplies. This is a cute party activity and the ribbons can be used for dancing, math and literacy activities. Perfect for kids in preschool, pre-k, and kindergarten. Valentine's Day party activity, birthday party activities, Christmas party activities. Use the dancing ribbons for counting syllables in words, making shapes and letters, counting activities and movement activities during circle time.

Garden and Flower Activities in the Store

Find these fun, hands-on garden and flower theme resources in the Early Learning Ideas store.

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