Kids Activities Using Real Flowers

When flowers are in bloom, even now my daughter (who is 16 as I write this) can’t resist picking them, and little kids love playing with flowers, so let’s look at some activities you can do with real flowers.

The post that got me thinking about this was this cute petal potions activity from Mother Natured. My daughter loved making “fairy potions” with flowers, leaves and other things when she was little and she would have loved this activity, too. Related: flower soup from Our Playful Learning Journey.

I’ve probably shared this one before but there are so many dandelions in our yard that every year I’m tempted to make dandelion paint. Little Cooks Reading Books has the how to, and the author notes they first did this when her daughter was 15, so older kids can enjoy this one, too.

You can also paint using flowers as your paintbrush, which is a classic activity that’s a lot of fun and can be sort of stamping and sort of painting. Check out some ideas from Sugar Spice and Glitter.

Making a suncatcher or other art using clear peel and stick paper is a classic activity to do with flowers or any other natural stuff. This one from Messy Little Monster uses a paper plate as a frame. I also love this one I found on Pinterest that uses a tree shape and packing tape to gather petals.

Or just use regular paper and glue as in this pressed flower and leaf collage from DLTK Kids.

You can also press flowers into playdough, salt dough or air dry clay, like in this activity from Real Red Riding Hoods, which uses homemade playdough.

Sow ‘n Sow has some fun flower activities, too, including this smashed flower tote bag and cookies and lollipops made with edible flowers. So fun!

One of the subjects that’s often covered in preschool is learning about the five senses. Understanding our senses helps us describe the world around us and our experience in it, and it’s fun to explore the senses in different ways.

Rock Your Homeschool has a great free printables pack having to do with the five senses. I love the foldable activity shown above because it emphasizes that the way we really experience our senses is through our brains. They also have a sensory scavenger hunt printable, which doesn’t include taste but has the rest of the senses included.

Of course we don’t really want kids tasting things they find outside (unless you happen to have fruit or vegetables growing nearby) but I like the way Hands on Teaching Ideas handled it by including “something an animal would eat” on their five senses scavenger hunt.

Sea of Knowledge has lots of ideas for things to do with preschoolers to learn about the five senses, as well as this free with email signup template for making a five senses craft (you could also trace the child’s hands instead of using the hands in the template if you like).

Use a potato head toy you probably already have to play a five senses game with the download from A Little Pinch of Perfect. You could do the same thing on paper with a potato (or human body) shape and color on the different sense organs.

Simple Everyday Mom has a cute set of senses puppets you can print and play with, or use for different projects and crafts.

Preschool Packets has a whole set of posts dealing with teaching the five senses (the one linked here is for hearing but the rest are linked within that post), which includes a great idea for making shakers with kids to explore the sense of hearing.

Tim’s Printables has some cute five senses printables where kids can match the image to the sense you’d use to explore it. There’s also a body to label but I think there’s only a male version.

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