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.

Summer Worksheets with a Fruity Twist

Free Printable Lunch Box Fruit Cup Labels

Printable Fruit and Veggie List

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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