Flower Crafts for Kids

The other day I shared some flower learning activities for kids, and admittedly the line between learning and crafts is a little fuzzy, but here are some more flower craft activities you can do in the classroom or at home.

One thing I mentioned in that post was that you often start with parts of the flower, and I’ve got another flower parts craft here. This one, from Happy Tot Shelf, uses cardboard tubes for the different parts. Let kids make it and decorate the flower as they want, or put it together for them and let kids play with it.

These cute dandelions from Kids Craft Room are a great way for kids to practice their scissors skills. If you don’t have cupcake liners in the right color you can just cut a circle out of yellow construction paper or card stock instead.

Toddler Approved has another cute cutting practice flower craft that’s pretty easy to set up and you can do a few different things with.

Use a handprint to make a plant with flowers on the fingers with this easy craft from Beth Ann Averill. She also has a cute spring flower themed playdough tray if that’s a thing you like to do.

Another fun way to craft a flower is by using a fork to make the petals. This looks like a dandelion, or it can be a different flower if you use a different color. Get the instructions from Made in a Pinch.

Low Lift Fun has a great collection of flower crafts and other spring crafts you can make with preschoolers. Here’s another way to make flowers with a fork that look like tulips.

If your idea of crafting is more on the lazy side, grab some of the more than 35 free spring coloring pages from Daydream into Reality. These are great to stick in the art area or just have on hand when you need a little time filler.

Did you know that October is Squirrel Awareness Month? I didn’t know we needed more awareness of these little creatures, but let’s take it as a sign to learn more about squirrels!

Let’s start with some fun facts via Kids Konnect: did you know there are five subfamilies and more that 280 species of squirrels? The smallest are pygmy squirrels and the largest, the Bhutan giant flying squirrel, can be longer that 4 feet (1.2 meters).

Tree squirrels can climb down trees so fast because their ankles can rotate 180 degrees, allowing them to grab the tree bark as they go down. While most squirrels don’t survive their first year of life, they can live five to 10 years in the wild and squirrels have been known to live up to 20 years in captivity!

Rhythms of Play has more fun facts and tips for observing squirrels if you want to add some real life nature to your nature study.

We always like to start these collections with life cycle and parts of the animal printables, so let’s grab the squirrel life cycle an parts of a squirrel worksheets from Montessori Nature. (It doesn’t look like these are free any more but they have a whole unit study on squirrels you can buy that includes life cycle and parts activities, characteristics of different kinds of squirrels, a printable poster, information about predators and more.)

Grab the squirrel lapbook printable (free with email address) from Homeschool Share to learn the parts of a squirrel, where they live, what they eat, whether they hibernate and more. There’s also a nut taste test printable, a place for making observations about squirrels, life cycle of an oak tree, games and more.

Simple Everyday Mom has some cute squirrel themed worksheets including tracing the letter s, labeling the parts of a squirrel and a letter s maze. She also has more activity pages with a squirrel theme, including matching, a more traditional maze and a counting and graphing activity.

Work on letter recognition with this squirrel and acorn game printable from Teaching Mama. I love the idea of hiding the letters in a fall themed sensory bin for kids to find, identify and match to the letter on the worksheet.

For older kids you can do this “if I were a squirrel” writing prompt from Lesson Planet.

And throw in a little counting with these squirrel and acorn tens frame printables from JDaniel4’s Mom, which you can use to count real acorns or any other little fall themed thing you have handy.

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