Blueberry Learning Activities

One of my favorite summer fruits is blueberries, and there are lots of blueberry themed learning activities you can do at home or in the classroom, especially if you combine them with a reading of Blueberries for Sal.

You can read the book, pick blueberries if you have access to them, maybe make something tasty with blueberries (or just eat them) and do some fun blueberry activities.

Homeschool Preschool has printable activity sheets the include coloring a blueberry and tracing the word, cutting practice, finding the smallest thing in a group, Q-tip painting and more. Add in an adorable and easy blueberry bucket craft from Inspired Motherhood using supplies you probably already have.

You can also do some Sal-inspired pretend play with this printable bear mask from Mom Life Made Easy. Or get some blue pompoms (or whatever little blue things you have handy) and hide them around the room so kids can go “berry” picking with their buckets.

Homeschool Helper Online has a full unit study related to Blueberries for Sal, including information about bears, onomatopoeia, b sounds, counting and more. This is not a free resource but it’s a great one for kids in preschool through second grade.

Royal Baloo has a free set of letter b, bear and and blueberry printables to go with the book, including literacy and counting activities.

Learn about the parts of a blueberry with this printable booklet from Little Learning Lane.

Get blueberry themed activity pages straight from the people who grow them with these printables from Critchley Family Farms. There’s a maze, facts about blueberries, a smoothie recipe, mirror image drawing, color by numbers and more.

Life with Moore Babies has a fun dancing blueberries activity kids are sure to enjoy. It’s based on the classic dancing raisins experiment but you can do it with whatever little fruit you have handy. Dried fruit is great for this, or you can try cutting berries into smaller pieces.

I love this blueberry playdough from The Craft Train. It looks so pretty and is made with real blueberries. Perfect for those berries that aren’t quite good enough to eat anymore.

Blueberry Almond Snack Bars [Edible Crafts]

DIY Blueberry Waffle Wands [Edible Crafts]

Growing Up Ladybug and How to Become a Butterfly are both by Stepanka Sekaninova and illustrated by Linh Dao, and they came out at the same time and are on similar themes, so let’s look at them together.

Growing Up Ladybug is narrated by Mariella, a seven-spot ladybug. She talks about the parts of a ladybug, where they live, different kinds of ladybugs, why humans love them, their defenses against predators and the life cycle of a ladybug.

The drawings are cute if not always scientifically accurate, it’s not in such a way that’s likely to confuse kids (who probably already know that ladybug mamas don’t push their larval babies around in strollers, for instance.

It’s a good general description of the life cycle of a lady bug and why we like having them around.

About the book: 32 pages, hardcover. Published 2026 by Albatross Media. Suggested retail price $16.95.

Similarly, How to Become a Butterfly covers the life cycle of a butterfly, starting with caterpillars eating burning nettle leaves. (Here Amanda is the narrator.) The book talks about a few of the more than 18,000 daytime butterflies in the world as well as other creatures that live in the meadow (there’s that ladybug again, along with crickets, bees and other bugs).

It also covers some of the enemies of caterpillars like wasps and spiders, and the defenses that caterpillars use to try to prevent being eaten. It illustrates how caterpillars grow and change as they molt and prepare to pupate, and what a caterpillar looks like before and while it is forming its chrysalis. And while the book uses the word metamorphasis it doesn’t really talk about what happens between the caterpillar forming a chrysalis and the butterfly hatching.

This butterfly is a peacock butterfly, and once it hatches the book covers the parts of a butterfly and the life cycle. It also talks about nocturnal moths (though it says nocturnal butterflies are “usually called moths” when moths are actually a different species) and what butterflies do at night.

I’m maybe a little hard on this book because my daughter is a butterfly expert from way back, but it is still cute and good for the very basic basics of the butterfly life cycle.

Both books would be fun additions to your bookshelf for younger kids starting to learn about different animals or who have an interest in insects.

About the book: 32 pages, hardcover. Published 2026 by Albatross Media. Suggested retail price $16.95.

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