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Flower Colors
Activities and
Worksheets
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Flowers Puppets
and Activities
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Lily's Flower Garden
Emergent Reader Booklet
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Flower Puzzle |
Collecting Nectar
Fine Motor Skill Activity
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Mother's Day Flower
Crafts and Gift Ideas
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Flower Scissors
Skills
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Parts of a Plant
Activities and Worksheets |
Flowers Patterning
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Flower Beginning
Sound Game |
Lily Plants a Flower Garden Felt Story with
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Flower Color
Board Game
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Flower Word Families
Folder Game
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Parts of a Plant
Activities
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Plant and Flower
Word Wall
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Tulips Artwork |
Sunflower
Math Folder Game |
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Free Flower and Plants Craft and Activities
April showers bring May flowers. May is a traditional month to celebrate Spring. Many people celebrate spring by making May baskets and filling them with flowers, which are one of the signs of spring. Discover with your children the world of plants and flowers during the month of May. Plants are living things. Many plants have flowers, but some do not. Flowers come in many shapes and make the seeds.
Explain to children that a flower or any plant has different parts: roots, stems, leaves, flowers, and seeds.
Instruction:
Show children a flower such as a daisy or carnation with roots attached. Ask children, “Can anyone name the parts of a flower?” Point to the petals or flower of the plant and ask, “What are these called?” Explain to children that the flower has parts on the inside (petals) and the inside (ovule, pistil, stamen, stigma). Explain to children that flowers produce seeds that can grow into new plants. (Point to the leaves and say, “Leaves are the plant’s food factory. The flower makes food from sunlight. It’s called photosynthesis. The stem is the plant’s drinking straw. With the roots the stem helps bring water to all parts of the plant.” Point to the center of the flower and explain that flowers make the seeds that grow into new plants. Last point to the roots and explain that the roots hold the plant in place. Plants need water to live. They take it in
through their roots. The water travels through their stems to the veins in their
leaves up to the flower.
Flowers Activities:
Facts: Flowers produce seeds that can grow into new plants. Flowers have parts on the outside (petals) and the inside (ovule, pistil, stamen, stigma). Flowers will wilt, dry out, and die if they are uprooted from the soil. Cut flowers survive in just water, but only for a few days.
Flower Sniff
Show children a selection of flowers that have different smells. Let them smell each flower and make a chart of their favorite flower smell.
Flower Pressing:
Go on a walk and collect some flowers. Explain to children that the flowers will wilt and die quickly after being picked. Tell them that to preserve their beauty, we can press the flowers. To preserve the flowers they need to be completely dried out. Have children choose two or three flowers to preserve. Write child’s name on a piece of newspaper. Arrange the flowers face down on the paper without overlapping. Cover the flowers with another piece of newspaper. Carefully place them inside a heavy book such an old telephone directory. Allow flowers to dry for at least two weeks.
A Little Garden Flower
A little garden flower
Is growing in its bed. (make a fist with left hand)
A warm spring sun
Is shining overhead. (Form circle with right thumb and finger.)
Down come the raindrops,
Dancing to and fro. (Move right fingers to make rain.)
The little flower wakens
And starts to grow. (Slowly extend index finger up from fist.)
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Flower Garden
Count and Color |
Five Flower Baskets
Rhyme Printouts |
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Five Flower Baskets
Five flower baskets sitting on the floor.
One will go to ____(‘s mom), then there will be four.
Four flower baskets, pretty as can be.
One will go to ____(‘s mom), then there will be three.
Three flower baskets, with flowers red and blue.
One will go to ____(‘s mom), then there will be two.
Two flower baskets, bright as the sun.
One will go to ___ (‘s mom), then there will be one.
One flower basket, oh it’s sure to go
To your very own mother, who is the nicest one you know.
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Seeds Activities:
Facts: Seeds come from the flowers or fruits of plants and can grow into new plants. Seeds need water, warmth, and air to sprout. People and animals eat the seeds of some plants (pecans, rice, peas, popcorn, peanuts). People use the seeds to make other foods (wheat, oats, corn, and rice are used to make bread, pasta, and cereal)
Seed Card Number Matching
What you need:
Index cards
Sunflower seeds or beans
Glue
Black marker
What you do:
To make a set of number cards, glue 1 seed onto an index card, 2 seeds onto another index card, 3 seeds onto yet another card, etc. until you have the number of cards you want. On another set of index cards, write corresponding numbers (For example, if you have 12 seed cards, then you will have 12 number cards).
Science: Seed-Growing Activity
• A Ziploc bag: Give children each a small plastic Ziploc baggie, a paper towel, and a few flower seeds. Have children spray the paper towel with water. Have children put the wet paper towel and the flower seeds in the baggie. Zip the baggie closed and tape to the inside of a sunny window. Children will enjoy watching the roots shoot out in just a day or two. In a week the flower(s) can be transplanted to a small paper cup of soil.
Leaves Activities:
Fact: Leaves grow on the stem of the plant. The leaves contain a green coloring called chlorophyll. With sunlight, chlorophyll helps change the water into food. The process is called photosynthesis. Leaves may change color during different seasons. People and animals eat the leaves of some plants (lettuce, spinach).
Leaves sensory table
Show children a variety of leaves that have different sizes, shapes, and textures. Have them feel and compare them. Have them sort the leaves by size, color, shape, and textures.
Stem
Fact: The water moves up the stem into the leaves and petals. Stems support the leaves and flowers of the plant.
How the Stem of a Flower Works
Place a white daisy or a white carnation in a clear container filled with water. Put a few drops of blue food coloring into the water. Ask children to predict what will happen. (In several hours the tips of the flowers and leaves will become blue, demonstrating how the flower stem carries water to the leaves and petals.)
Flower Math Activities
At the craft store buy small ribbon rosebuds in a variety of colors. Use a muffin tin to sort by color or count them or make patterns.
Fruit Salad Flowers
Cut oranges and apples into thin slices, slice bananas, cut celery into long strips, and cut green grapes in half. Give children large plates and show them how to arrange fruit to build a flower: apple and orange slice for petals, banana slice for centers, celery for stem, and green grape halves for leaves. Then give them a few sunflower seeds to put in the center of their flower
Flowers Craft Ideas
Flower Seed Collage
Print sunflower pattern and cut out. Trace onto craft paper. Have children glue a variety of seeds onto flower. Show them how to get different effects by using one kind of seed for the center of the flower and another kind of seed for the petals. Have children color the stem and leaves green.
Popcorn Flowers
Mix popped popcorn in paper bag with colored tempera paint and shake. Have children draw a stem and leaves for their flower on construction paper. Glue popcorn on paper for flower petals.
Coffee Filter Flowers
Give each child 3–5 coffee filters or tissue paper. Have children color (decorate) them with magic markers (or watercolor paints). Once children are finished decorating, lay the coffee filters on top of each other and gather them in the center. Twist a green pipe cleaner around the center for a stem. Display bouquet in a vase.
Flowers and Plants Songs and Rhymes:
Little Brown Seeds
Little brown seeds so small and round,
Are sleeping quietly underground.
Down comes the raindrops,
Sprinkle, sprinkle, sprinkle.
Out comes the rainbow,
Twinkle, twinkle, twinkle.
Little brown seeds way down below,
Up through the earth they grow, grow, grow.
Little green leaves come out one by one.
They hold up their heads and look at the sun.
(Author unknown)
Little Seed
("I'm A Little Teapot" tune)
I'm a little seed
In the dark, dark ground.
Out comes the warm sun,
Yellow and round.
Down comes the rain,
Wet and slow.
Up comes the little seed,
Grow, grow, grow!
(Author unknown)
