Spring Flower Activities for Kids

April 16, 2023 by Sarah White Leave a Comment

Spring is in the air where I live (finally) and there are little flowers all over the place. It’s nice to have color after what feels like so long without it, and it’s also a good time to learn about flowers with kids. Here are a few fun resources for learning about and playing with flowers.

Look We’re Learning has a great set of printable flower identification cards that includes eight different flowers: tulip, daffodil, rhododendron, orchid, hibiscus, iris, geranium and dahlia. You can just print out the cards twice and make a memory game, have older kids research a flower on their own, or have younger kids pick a flower they want to learn about. Or take them to the botanical garden and see how many of the flowers you can find.

Kindred Inspiration has a lot of fun spring activities for little kids, but if you scroll through the post you’ll find a set of printable Montessori three-part cards for for daffodils, tulips, snowdrops, crocuses, bluebells, and irises. Print and have kids match the flower to the name.

Learn about the life cycle of a flower with these printables from Homeschool Preschool. There’s a simple version for little kids and one with more description for older kids.

Little Bins for Little Hands has a great series of hands on flower themed activities that little ones are sure to love. Since it starts with flowers in a block of ice, this is one you might want to save for or do again when it is hot outside so kiddos can play with/observe the flowers in the ice and have a little cool off at the same time. Head to the blog post for all the details on this fun activity you can do all at once or in three parts.

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Reflecting on the Past Year with Kids

I’m in deep denial about the fact that new year is almost upon us again! It’s been the fastest and the longest year at the same time, and I can look back and see some good things as well as some things I wish had gone differently.

Doing a year in review with your kids — whether in the classroom or at home — is a good way to capture some of their memories and the things they really liked about the year gone by.

There are a lot of different printable year in review worksheets you can use if you want to make this super easy. Here are links to a few (often part of larger posts about NYE celebrations with kids that are worth a read, too):

Teach Beside Me has lots of fun printables fro the end of the year, including a year in review that covers favorite memory, funniest memory and the best book they read, among other topics.
NurtureStore‘s version has space for a self-portrait and prompts like favorite toy, best day out this year and future dream job.
Remember favorites, their “best idea” of the year and have room for setting goals for next year with this one from The Keele Deal.
The year in review from Yes We Made This has room for drawing or writing and includes things like something they learned, a memory they made and a place they visited.

Of course you could pretty easily make your own year in review for the whole family to do that asks questions based on what you most want to remember. (Favorite video game? Best friend? Favorite family memory?)

And if after the year in review you’re ready to look ahead a bit, Mrs. Merry has new year’s resolution printables to inspired kids to look ahead and set goals for things they want to try. You can totally fill this one out as a grownup, too.

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