Flower Themed Learning Activities

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.

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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