Flower Themed Learning Activities

April 21, 2025 by Sarah White Leave a Comment

Flowers seem like a must do theme in the spring, and there are always more activities and printables for you to add to your classroom or homeschool, or just to do at home with kids. Check out these fun flower learning activities.

Of course if we’re talking about flowers we need to know all the parts of the flower. Natural Beach Living has a cute idea for an art project for preschoolers you can also use to learn the parts of the flower.

Go on a nature walk (even if it’s just in the back yard or around the playground) and do some fun activities with the flowers you collect with these ideas from The Play Based Mom. I also love this “free the flowers” activity from Little Pine Learners, which has some fine and gross motor skill work built in.

Do a bit of math with a flower theme with this free printable activity from Miss Kindergarten, which uses the petals of the flower to express different numbers in different ways (hash marks, dots, drawing a tens frame, simple math, etc.). These would be cute to decorate the classroom.

A Dab of Glue Will Do has another cute flower learning activity you can use to decorate the classroom, this time involving learning how to spell names. Since my kid has a short name I appreciate that there are also blank petals they can use to make it still look like a flower.

Learn some of your basic words for early readers with this flower pot matching game by Playdough to Plato. You could also make this one active by hiding the flowers around the room and having kids find them to make their matches.

Mom Inspired Life has a cute number line activity made with foam flowers, or you can cut out flower shapes from paper or card stock. Even better, draw flowers on the sidewalk outside and make this a movement game on a warm day.

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Sun Activities for Kids

With summer coming soon in the Northern Hemisphere, it’s a fun time to incorporate activities and crafts with a sunny theme. Take some time to learn about the sun (this post from National Geographic Kids is a good one) and then do some sun activities.

Sun prints are a classic summer activity, and there are lots of ways to do them, from placing objects on construction paper (like in this craft from MomBrite) or by using sun print paper (aka cyanotype paper).

Practice threading, counting, color sorting and other skills with this easy sun threading activity from Taming Little Monsters.

Lessons 4 Little Ones has a great blog post full of ideas for science experiments using the sun, such as melting crayons, looking at shadows, making a sun dial and trying a solar oven. Printables to go with the lessons are available for purchase or you can just talk through the students’ hypotheses about what will happen and draw or otherwise record the results.

This updraft tower from Almost Unschoolers is a cool way to illustrate that the heat of the sun causes an updraft, which makes the pinwheel spin. This is a good one to do inside near a sunny window so you don’t have wind spinning the pinwheel instead.

You’ll want to get out in the sun to try this experiment form Life with Moore Babies to see what kinds of things the sun can melt. Using different kinds of sweets you can see how the sun melts things by itself and how you can concentrate the power of the sun with a magnifying glass.

Playing with shadows is fun for kids of all ages, and you can track a shadow through the day with this experiment from Science Sparks. If you’re working with multiple kids they can each choose an object to shadow (ha!) and at the end of the day you can see how different their shadows looked.

And of course you’ll want to make a sun themed suncatcher craft, right? This one from Fox Farm Home uses all the pretty flowers you collect on your nature walk and puts them in a sun-shaped frame.

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