Blueberry Learning Activities

June 5, 2025 by Sarah White Leave a Comment

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]

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Book Review: Rise Up!

It might seem weird to feature a book about protest movements around the Fourth of July, but as Rise Up! Powerful Protests in American History reminds us, protest is patriotic and part of the very fabric of American life from the beginning.

This picture book, written by history teacher Rachel C. Katz and illustrated by Sophie Bass, tells a rhyming story of how Americans have stood up throughout the nation’s history to protest and spread the word about injustice and unsafe conditions. From the Boston Tea Party to modern movements like the Standing Rock pipeline protests and the Obergefell case, it touches on women’s rights, environmental activism, civil rights, Pride, access for disabled people and more.

The illustrations, often based on historic protest signs and artwork, help tell the stories, while a timeline, map, and overview of each event for further discussion. Readers will learn about Silent Spring and The Jungle, the Memphis Sanitation Workers’ Strike, the Seneca Falls convention, Robert Smalls, the Delano Grape Strike and the movement to un-dam the Klamath River, to name a few.

Each event includes a few bullet points to provide context about what happened, why and what the result was. The book reminds readers that protests are not always effective, or don’t always get the people involved what they want right away (since it took women 72 years to get the right to vote after Seneca Falls, for example).

This book is a great way to introduce kids to the long and proud history of protest movements in the United States and could prompt discussions about current events and things happening that they might want to see changed. It could also be used to start kids researching different protests discussed in the book for further learning. You can talk about how art can educate people and encourage kids to make their own art pieces to educate others about something important to them.

Rise Up! is a great starting point for learning about the history of protest and the effects it has had on American history. The publisher’s website has more resources for teaching with this book at the link below.

About the book: 48 pages, hardcover. Published 2025 by Barefoot Books. Suggested retail price $17.99.

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