Spring Flower Activities for Kids

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.

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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