How to Introduce a Flower Theme

Preschool Flowers Lesson Plans | Preschool Teacher 101
This awesome printable unit has everything you need to create an awesome flower theme.

It includes the following:

  • Recommended Book List
  • 1-Page Weekly Lesson Plan Grid with Activity Ideas for Whole Group, Literacy, Math, and Science each day
  • 5 Daily Lesson Plan Sheets with Activity Directions and Materials List
  • 2-Page Center Descriptions
  • Related Printables including:
    • 1) Initial Sound Flower Building Activity
      2) Flower Number Cards
      3) Flower Petal Counting Emergent Reader
      4) Flower Alphabet Matching Set
      5) Uppercase and Lowercase Flowers for Hands-on Games and Activities
      6) Flower Life Cycle Cards
      7) Flower Roll and Graph Game
      8) Flower Patterning and Sorting Cards
      9) Name Letter Sorting Activity Mat
      10) Shape Pieces for Flower Building with Shapes

Language Activities

Flower Garden Name Game | Fantastic Fun and Learning
This activity is easy to create with flowers and little pots from the craft store.  Your students will love arranging the flowers to spell their names.

ABC Flower Garden | Buggy and Buddy
Here’s another variation of a literacy activity with flowers and flower pots. I love the little flowers on popsicle sticks.  Your children will enjoy making the flowers and then putting them in alphabetical order.

Flowers Rhyming Matchups | Preschool Activities Nook
Get this flower themed rhyming printable from my TpT store!

Math Activities

Flower Counting | Teaching 2 and 3 Year Olds
This is a simple flower counting activity with popsicle sticks in floral foam.

Flower Number Line Game | Coffee Cups and Crayons
I love these crafty little flowers and using a bee to buzz down the number flower line.

Roll and Build a Flower | Living Montessori Now
This post has lots of preschool math ideas with a flowers theme, including free printables! My favorite involves rolling a pair of dice to help you build a flower.


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Fine Motor Activities

Easy Fine Motor Activities with Flowers | Lalymom
This post has some fun hands on fine motor fun with flowers… and these ideas are great for sensory exploration, too!

Flowers Pin Punching | Welcome to Mommyhood
Pin punching is one of my favorite activities for developing fine motor skills.  Find instructions and links to templates here.

Craft Activities

Petal Suncatcher Craft | Craftulate
This is a perfect activity to use up slightly wilting flowers!  It’s easy enough for your younger children and your older children can get super creative with it.

Sensory and Dramatic Play

This wonderful flower arranging activity from Living Montessori Now is excellent for developing all kinds of fine motor skills and improving coordination and concentration.

Gross Motor Fun

Gross Motor Flower Number Line | Adventures and Play
Take math outside with this fun flower number line game!

Flower Science/STEM Activities

Flower Construction Challenge | The Preschool Toolbox
Get some great tips on how to incorporate STEM problem solving into a flower themed play dough activity.

Dissecting a Flower | Trillium Montessori
Grab a magnifying glass and examine the parts of a flower!

Color Changing Flowers | Schooling a Monkey
You have to add this fun demonstration to your flower unit!  Observe the flowers change color over a few days and discuss why it happened!

Spring Flower STEM Investigation | Life Over C’s
Get measuring with this flower themed STEM activity.

 


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More Resources for a Preschool Flowers Theme

Wildflowers Around the World | Schooling a Monkey
Flower Scavenger Hunt Mini Book | Life Over Cs
Parts of a Flower | The Preschool Toolbox
Top 10 Ways to Study Flowers | The Usual Mayhem
Planting a Rainbow | Preschool STEAM
Spring Flower Roll and Color | Fantastic Fun and Learning
Flower Playdough Invitation | Fantastic Fun and Learning
Flower Petal Sensory Play | Fantastic Fun and Learning
Flower Garden Play Dough | Fantastic Fun and Learning
Flower Exploration Center | Buggy and Buddy
Flower Sensory Play | Little Bins for Little Hands
Flower Science and Art Activities | Little Bins for Little Hands
Flower Arranging | Rhythms of Play
Amaryllis Measurement | Wise Owl Factory
Free Flower Names 3 Part Cards | Wise Owl Factory
Flower Math Activity | Coffee Cups and Crayons
Alphabet Flower Vases | Growing Book by Book
Crystal Flowers | Go Science Girls
Spring Flower Identification Cards | Look We’re Learning
Flower Unit | Every Star is Different
Hands On Learning About Common Flowers | Pinay Homeschooler
Montessori Inspired Parts of a Plant | Pinay Homeschooler

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