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.

Growing Up Ladybug and How to Become a Butterfly are both by Stepanka Sekaninova and illustrated by Linh Dao, and they came out at the same time and are on similar themes, so let’s look at them together.

Growing Up Ladybug is narrated by Mariella, a seven-spot ladybug. She talks about the parts of a ladybug, where they live, different kinds of ladybugs, why humans love them, their defenses against predators and the life cycle of a ladybug.

The drawings are cute if not always scientifically accurate, it’s not in such a way that’s likely to confuse kids (who probably already know that ladybug mamas don’t push their larval babies around in strollers, for instance.

It’s a good general description of the life cycle of a lady bug and why we like having them around.

About the book: 32 pages, hardcover. Published 2026 by Albatross Media. Suggested retail price $16.95.

Similarly, How to Become a Butterfly covers the life cycle of a butterfly, starting with caterpillars eating burning nettle leaves. (Here Amanda is the narrator.) The book talks about a few of the more than 18,000 daytime butterflies in the world as well as other creatures that live in the meadow (there’s that ladybug again, along with crickets, bees and other bugs).

It also covers some of the enemies of caterpillars like wasps and spiders, and the defenses that caterpillars use to try to prevent being eaten. It illustrates how caterpillars grow and change as they molt and prepare to pupate, and what a caterpillar looks like before and while it is forming its chrysalis. And while the book uses the word metamorphasis it doesn’t really talk about what happens between the caterpillar forming a chrysalis and the butterfly hatching.

This butterfly is a peacock butterfly, and once it hatches the book covers the parts of a butterfly and the life cycle. It also talks about nocturnal moths (though it says nocturnal butterflies are “usually called moths” when moths are actually a different species) and what butterflies do at night.

I’m maybe a little hard on this book because my daughter is a butterfly expert from way back, but it is still cute and good for the very basic basics of the butterfly life cycle.

Both books would be fun additions to your bookshelf for younger kids starting to learn about different animals or who have an interest in insects.

About the book: 32 pages, hardcover. Published 2026 by Albatross Media. Suggested retail price $16.95.

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