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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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Have you read?

Book Review: The Festival of Lights

As if Diwali weren’t colorful and fun enough, The Festival of Lights: A Lift-the-flap Diwali Celebration by Namita Moolani Mehra, illustrated by Darshika Varm, makes it even more fun to read about with flaps and things to lift and pull to see more information or details in the illustrations. 

The book is a story about a family getting ready for Diwali and what happens on the different days of the five-day celebration. There’s cleaning, shopping, crafting, food preparation and getting the home altar ready for the big day. 

It covers decorating the outside of the house with rangoli, diyas and lanterns, buying sweets to share with family and friends, the sights and scents of the mandir (home temple), getting dressed up in new fancy clothes, the story of Diwali and celebrations with relatives.  

Flaps (there are more than 140 in all) give you vocabulary words for different foods and definitions, as well as fun things like what’s inside the shopping basket or where the cat is hanging out. They also help illuminate the story of Diwali, which is the triumph of good over evil as Lord Ram defeated the demon Ravana to save his wife, Sita. 

This pretty and colorful book helps kids understand what Diwali is and how it is celebrated, regardless of whether they practice it at home. This would be a nice book to keep in a classroom (it’s rated for kids ages 3-7) or to have at home to teach kids about Diwali even if it’s not something you celebrate. Where I live there are a lot of people from India so we are probably exposed to Diwali more than some other regions of America, but it’s a nice holiday to know about wherever you live. 

Combine with the book Diwali and check out some fun lantern crafts and printables for kids to round out your experience. 

About the book: 24 pages, hardcover, published 2025 by Wide Eyed Editions. Suggested retail prices $22.99.

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