Strawberry Activities for Kids

Strawberry season has already come and gone where I live, but I still think of strawberries as being a transition between spring and summer. They’re fun to talk about and explore any time of year, but if strawberries are in season or accessible where you live, so much the better because you can add picking strawberries or making strawberry jam to your activity list.

First let’s talk about the parts of a strawberry plant with this printable from Affordable Homeschooling. You can talk about how strawberries are unusual because their seeds are on the outside of the fruit. And Homeschool Preschool has a printable showing the life cycle of the strawberry from seedling to plant to fruit to seeds.

Simple Creative Learning has a printable pack that includes labeling the parts of the plant, a life cycle page, letter tracing, pattern recognition, three part cards, counting activities and more, as well as a printable mini book kids can color.

3 Boys and a Dog also has a printable activity set with a strawberry theme that includes shapes, writing activities and letter matching, to name a few. You can grab a strawberry letter recognition activity from ABCs of Literacy. This one includes printable strawberry shapes with upper and lower case letters and recording sheets to mark upper and lowercase letters and write letters.

For older kids, print out the free strawberry notebooking pages from Tina’s Dynamic Homeschool Plus, which include information about different varieties of strawberries, plant diseases and the history and lore surrounding strawberries. The site also has information on the life cycle of a strawberry and an activity to hand sew a strawberry out of felt.

Speaking of older kids, another fun strawberry project is extracting the DNA from a strawberry, which you can do with this tutorial from the National Human Genome Research Institute.

How about some strawberry crafts? Work on scissors skills with the strawberry printable craft from Krokotak, or print a strawberry shape using bubble wrap with this idea from In the Playroom. Inspire the Mom has a few strawberry crafts just for preschoolers and early elementary (love this mosaic one you could also do by hunting down the color red in magazines and using different kinds of paper).

And of course some sensory fun is always in order. Try the strawberry play dough made with Jello from 123 Homeschool 4 Me, or make your own freezer jam with this classic recipe from Betty Crocker.

You might already have some strawberry themed books on your shelf, but I also found Spring is for Strawberries by Katherine Pryor with illustrations by Polina Gortman (hardcover, 32 pages, published 2023 by Schiffer Kids, suggested retail price $16.99), which is a celebration of seasonal produce throughout the year (only one page features strawberries, but it’s still a cute book about the seasons). This is a great one for families that love the local farmer’s market.

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One way to help teach kids about Thanksgiving and why it’s important to be grateful is by reading books, and Little Mole Gives Thanks by Glenys Nellist, illustrated by Sally Garland, is a sweet story about the value of friendship and sharing.

Little Mole has made a feast and invited some very important guests, but when they all cancel at the last minute, Mole is reminded that the most important people in his life are his friends and family. All the animals in the forest join together and have a feast, raising a glass to the creatures who are always there for them.

It’s a quick little story but it’s sweet, and the book also includes a little information about how you can plan your own fancy forest feast.

This would be a really fun thing to do with a preschool group. You could read the book and plan your own fancy forest feast, which could be a regular lunch made fancy by eating outside and making some fun decorations for the table or picnic area. Families could bring food or kids can help prepare a treat in the classroom, depending on how you’re set up.

I also love the idea of using a book like this to talk about the people who are important in our lives. Mole’s special guests — the school principal, a firefighter and the mayor — are all important people and worth being thankful for, but in our day-to-day lives, the people who are closest to us are really the ones who are most important and who we should be thankful for. But it’s easy to forget showing gratitude to people we see all the time.

And that’s really what Thanksgiving is all about! Giving thanks for those people who are important to us on special days, but on every other day, too. Little Mole Gives Thanks is an easy way to start those conversations with little kids.

About the book: 32 pages, hardcover, published 2023 by Beaming Books, suggested retail price $17.99.

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