Growing Carrot Tops, This is the easiest way to show your toddler how things grow
Planting and growing a beanstalk using lima beans in your preschool, pre-k, or kindergarten classroom. Perfect for a Jack and the Beanstalk theme!
We’re rolling along through April learning about plants, seeds, growing and flowers. It’s a lot of fun. I found a lot of printable activities, some free some not, that go right along …
Grow a love of reading while learning through play! These hands-on garden literacy activities teach the alphabet, intial sounds, rhyming words, and more!
If you have little ones in the house, this activity is an easy and fun way to teach them about seeds and plant germination. This project has been around for years, and
This simple growing seeds project is a hands-on way to show kids what really happens to seeds when they're buried in the earth!
15+ fun and hands-on Garden Theme Learning Activities and Ideas for preschoolers and toddlers to play and learn.
We did a cupcake liner flowers scene as a cut and paste craft for our spring theme. They turned out REALLY cute! And the older one did another one, preschool level, for our Garden Theme. Click HERE for printable. For the first one... We folded a piece of cardstock at the one-third mark to create a dividing line for the children to color the top two-thirds blue and the bottom one-third green. I place a variety of green and blue crayons in the middle of the table for them to choose from. This is a good color recognition assessment. 3 1/2 years old 2 1/2 years old Obviously some skill differences between the ages, but even the just turned 2s were able to do blue on top and green on bottom for the most part. Then we glued on the cupcake liners. As a fine motor skill, they helped in separating them out and placing them on the table. I asked if they wanted two or three flowers and then they counted out the spots to glue and number of liners to choose. Stick glue was best for this. School glue would have soaked up the liners. In discussing flowers, it was decided they needed pollen in the middle, so a golden crayon was carefully sought out and utilized. Then we added shelled sunflower seeds to the centers. There was more fine motor dexterity involved than I had anticipated. Even the older girls had to work at picking up the little seeds and placing each one. It was an excellent fine motor activity. Just turned 2 year old. Since it is a CUT and paste activity, I let the 3 year old go at it with the scissors. I simply told her to cut a straight line to the end. She did REALLy well at it. If she had a piece too wide, I just asked her to cut it in half. We measured length on her picture and she cut them to size. She decided to cutting up one of her strips and ended up with a bunch of smaller pieces. So, she used these for leaves. The younger children worked with me using teacher-assist scissors for their cutting. One of them noticed the green crimped grass in the crafts bin, and wanted some. So, we added that to their grass areas. It made for a nicely textured art piece. For the second one... I printed out my template and folded the side and bottom back and let her paint blue, mixing the paint to her desired color. Once dry, I folded it back and let her paint the bottom fourth brown. Then proceeded along in the same manner as the first one. However, I did draw out ovals for her to cut out for leaves, adding an additional fine motor skill of cutting on a curve. For this one, she cut white yarn to glue on as roots. She got a little carried away with the glue, so I helped spread it out. Didn't she do an amazing job of getting the pieces the same size? I didn't tell her to do that. I actually wanted them different lengths, but hey, her project. We discussed how her yarn pieces were about one inch long and measured them with a ruler. While I'm not into worksheets much, they do provide some good fine motor, spelling, letter recognition and writing practice occasionally, along with kindergarten readiness. At almost 4, she was able to sound out all these words, with me reminding her that oo says "oo" in roots. We could have added a sun and cloud in the sky as an added science add-on. We just didn't. I used this to cover the parts of a plant, rather than what they need. SKILLS: Math: one-third, two-thirds, one-fourth, counting flowers, stems, seeds, length measurement Science: parts of a plant, natural elements Fine Motor: cut, glue, crayon grasp, painting, separating the cupcake liners, placing of the seeds/stem/grass/etc. Art: creative expression, mixed media, texture, 3D art, color recognition, color choice Language: parts of a flower, fraction terms, Social: following directions Tags: flower, craft, cupcake liner, flower craft, spring, mother's day, may, april, flowers, science, art, texture, mixed media, worksheet, parts of a flower, preschool, childcare, daycare, pre-k, prek, kindergarten, first grade, 1st grade, plant physiology, fine motor, skills, painting, cut, paste, glue, writing, spelling, word wall, printable, free
Preschoolers grow quickly, so activities about how and why they grow are always appropriate. Lessons on proper nutrition are especially helpful to teach students the importance of eating right at an early age. An "I'm Growing" unit for preschoolers can include crafts, food, games and stories.
This simple growing seeds project is a hands-on way to show kids what really happens to seeds when they're buried in the earth!
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Planting and growing seeds with kids at home or school. Check out these gardening activities for preschoolers to use in your classroom!
Investigating seeds in a preschool farm theme and makes a great science tray, as well as in a spring theme or gardening theme.
Every child can garden. Here are 25 ways to get kids gardening.
After planting the seeds, children learn the importance of taking care of them while observing their growth.
Grow a love of reading while learning through play! These hands-on garden literacy activities teach the alphabet, intial sounds, rhyming words, and more!
Growing grass seed in a cup for your preschool, pre-k, or kindergarten classroom. A fun planting and growing grass science activity for kids.
Plastic cup greenhouses... A mini version of the real thing perfect for starting seeds with kids!
The Celery Experiment: Learn How Plants Absorb Water and Grow with this fun science project.
I don't intend on showing you all the activities we do because so many others do it better. The internet has so many blogs dedicated to showcasing activity ideas. This one I thought was worth showing as it is a really good example of an activity to do at home and nothing goes to waste, the herbs can be used in the kitchen later. The cards are designed as three part cards to be used by a much older child, as the instructions say one that has completed a lot of botany work. Ignoring the instructions today we use them...
This experiment came about by chance a few weeks ago and has been going on ever since. During dinner EC was eating his apple More
Share the Sweetness1589 590SharesIf you’re just joining us for this Toddler School Gardening Unit, we’re just now getting to the green part. My goals for this unit are to teach Cash about the great outdoors by planting a garden together throughout the Spring and into the summer. He is very interested in how things work! The… Read More Teaching Toddlers How Things Grow | Gardening Unit
15+ fun and hands-on Garden Theme Learning Activities and Ideas for preschoolers and toddlers to play and learn.
Grow a love of reading while learning through play! These hands-on garden literacy activities teach the alphabet, intial sounds, rhyming words, and more!
Gardening Activities for Toddlers: If you're looking for a fun outdoor Spring activity for toddlers then get out into the garden & give these a try.
Lola Plants a Garden Written by Anna McQuinn and illustrated by Rosalind Beardshaw (Charlesbridge; $15.95, Ages 2-5) In Mary’s Garden By Tina and Carson Kugler (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; $16.99, Ages 5-9) Spring is only a few short weeks away, and most of the country can’t wait to thaw out. In anticipation of sunshine and warmer temperatures,…
I have a secret to share with you. I'm a nerd. A huge nerd. And, I love gardening with my kids and showing them that growing seeds in a plastic bag is totally legit. I have a secret to share with all of you. I'm a nerd, and I really, really enjoy doing nerdy things with my kids, especially nature crafts and science experiments. If I can find a reason to sink my hands in the dirt or blow something up, I will! And, I will never, ever complain about the mess. As long as the kids are playing and
#9 – Plant Pals While this activity will take a little more time to come to fruition, kids will be extremely proud of themselves when they see what they’ve…
Nothing like setting up an experiment in the classroom and it not turning out exactly how you expected, right? Well, I'm here to share all my tips and tricks for growing beans in the classroom so your experiments are a success! Materials dried beans (pole, bush, or lima beans) paper towels spray bottle of water
Garden Shop Dramatic Play (or Flower Shop) for a spring theme, Mother's Day theme, or summer theme when everything is growing and blooming. Any preschool, pre-k, or kindergarten kiddo will LOVE it (and learn a ton too).
Help your child get excited for summer activities by learning more about vegetables and planting a garden. These gardening tot school trays are so much fun!
After using flower petals for learning activities we enjoyed exploring texture and creating art with them in this sticky flower garden sensory art.
For a preschool seed or gardening theme create a counting seeds gardening sensory bin. This sensory bin allows for hands-on exploration of planting seeds right into the "soil" all while working on number recognition, counting, and one-to-one correspondence.
In this lesson we’ll be learning about seeds, talking about how they grow, and investigating seeds with our senses. Investigating seeds spring nature study Investigating Seeds Do you remember the video we watched of the chicken embryo growing inside its egg? A seed is a plant embryo, inside its own protective covering. We’re planting […]
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Pre-K & Preschool theme ideas for learning about fairy tales Find more Fairy Tales Activities for Pre-K Books Check here for a complete list of Fairy
Garden Shop Dramatic Play (or Flower Shop) for a spring theme, Mother's Day theme, or summer theme when everything is growing and blooming. Any preschool, pre-k, or kindergarten kiddo will LOVE it (and learn a ton too).
Add some maths and science to your garden with this growing seeds experiment.
