As the weather warms up, we're spending lots of time playing outside. But we did use the last two weeks to do some flower activities to celebrate springtime! Have a look!
Learning Notebook
Matching uppercase and lowercase letters with stamps!
Matching uppercase and lowercase letters with stamps!
Measuring Flowers
Free printable from Fairy Poppins. We used linking chains to measure!
Parts of a Flower
Free printable from Homegrown Hearts and Minds. Learning about the parts of a flower using playdoh!
Sweet E was able to point out each part of a flower after our lesson!
Picking Flowers + Craft
I saw this idea floating around, but cannot find the original source. I poked holes into a piece of a cereal box, and drew a vase. Sweet E loved picking dandelions to place into the vase.
We had talked about how a flower blooms, and she was able to point out which ones hadn't bloomed yet.
She enjoyed it so much, we did it again with a different flower that was plentiful in our yard.
They're just adorable.
Learning Notebook
More upper/lowercase matching. We had talked about what flowers need in order to grow, so I had her matching flowers to suns.
Blooming Flowers
We did this activity with Sweet E's older siblings during quarantine last year. I adapted it to include some learning. Inside each flower cutout, I wrote a large number. Then as each flower opened up in the water, she could read me the number she saw. (We used a bath tablet to turn the water blue.)
She loved watching them bloom!
I cut out some more flowers for her afterward, because she enjoyed it so much. I was sure to include different numbers.
And playing in the water is always a fun sensory activity!
Scissor Practice
Sorting Letters vs. Numbers
Flower Colors and Patterns
Free printable from Fairy Poppins. We used beads!
Fingerprint Flower Craft
This is an activity I did with Honey Pot and Little M&M years ago! Sweet E and I pull this book out from time to time. It's so cute! Today we focused on the flower page of course.
Size Order + Positional Words
More from Fairy Poppins. This time Sweet E glued the flowers in size order.
And then she followed directions as I told her to circle the "shortest," "tallest," "biggest," and "smallest."
Beginning Sounds
Free printable from Fun Learning for Kids. It had been a while since we did a beginning sounds activity. Sweet E did great. She flipped over a card, said the word, and told me what letter the word started with before stamping it.
Watercolors + Pipette Craft
Just a quick activity to keep Sweet E busy while I prepared the final flower activity.
I forgot to take a picture of it immediately after she was done. But here it is after the watercolors had seeped through the cotton pads a little lol.
Number Line Garden
I drew 30 flowers with empty centers, and wrote the numbers 1-30 on circle stickers. Then I placed a few random numbers into the number line, and invited Sweet E to fill in the rest.
She had a lot of fun with this!
It was a long activity! So she had to transform into one of the Paw Patrol pups (which she does a dozen times each day) because, "No job is too big, no pup is too small!"
She did a terrific job!
Happy Spring!
