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Growing Flowers Preschool Theme
Growing flowers in preschool, planting and gardening is fun anytime! This theme is endless in the possible activities and adventures your preschoolers can participate inside and outside!
This growing flowers preschool theme page is filled with preschool lesson plans, activities and ideas for all the interest centers in your preschool classroom.
You'll find more themes to help you with your planning on my preschool themes page
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Growing Flowers Theme ArtFinger Painted Flowers
Materials Needed: Finger paint paper, variety of finger paint colors.
Children can make flowers by using the sides of their fists and use their open hands to make leaves!
Magazine Collage
Materials Needed: Flower magazines, glue, paper
The children choose the flowers from the magazines that they like, cut them out and work together to make a large, group flower collage!
Muffin Cups
Materials Needed: Colorful muffin cup papers, white paper, crayons and miscellaneous art and craft supplies.
Talk about what growing flowers have (stem, leaves, roots, flower) and what they need (soil, sun, water, air).
Encourage them to create their own, unique flower that has ALL of the 4 parts of a flower using the materials provided. They can also use crayons or markers to make leaves and stems or they can use collage materials.
Leaf Faces
Materials: Leaves from outside, glue and markers
The children use the leaves to create a leaf face or leaf creature and add to it with markers.
Write down the stories they tell about their creations and tape the description onto the bottom of their paper when they are done and display!
Growing Flowers Theme Block Center Ideas
Flowers
Add artificial small flowers and trucks to your block area. The children can load and unload flowers in their flower shop made of blocks!
Growing Flowers Theme Circle Time Ideas
Circle Time is such a great time for children to learn the social skills of being together as a large group AND to learn more about your Growing Flowers Theme!
Parts of a Flower
Materials Needed: 1 fresh flower, strips of paper and a marker, 4 pieces of construction paper, artificial flowers--dissected (take apart many artificial flowers so that you have enough pieces for each child to have one for the circle activity below).
Show the fresh flower to the children at circle time to introduce your Growing Flowers theme.
Pass the flower around for the children to touch and smell and discuss what they notice about the flower.
Ask if they know what a flower needs to grow? (Water, air, soil, sun).
Now, point to each part of the flower and ask if they know what it is called. Let them know the name and then print the name on a label and show it to them. Draw a basic picture of that part on the strip of paper and repeat the name.
Do this for each part of the flower: Flower, leaf, stem, root
Place these labels on different pieces of paper in the middle of circle.
Now pass out pieces of the artificial flowers.
Ask each child to identify which part of a growing flower they have and place it on the proper labeled paper.
EXTENSION: Use these items as a sorting/math activity for your math and manipulatives center (See Parts of a Flower math/manipulative activity below).
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You'll receive 1 free weekly theme starter pack each month!Snack Recipe Ideas to Cook Up for Your Growing Flowers Theme!
Cooking with children helps develop their math skills and helps them to learn how to follow directions. It also allows for some great conversation!
Ask many questions while cooking with your children to encourage conversation! Be sure to ask specific theme related questions while making these fun snacks!
Cooking Vegetable Soup
Ingredients and Items needed: The book Growing Vegetable Soup; vegetables from the story and a crock pot.
After reading the story, have the children help you to prepare the vegetables and place them in a crock pot with some vegetable broth. Cook on high (out of their way) for several hours!
Growing Flowers Theme Ideas to Transform Your Dramatic Play Area
Flower Shop
Materials: Artificial flowers, desk or table with a cash register, shopping carts and shopping bags. Also, provide plastic vases for the children to display some of their arrangements in!
Growing Flowers Theme Ideas for your Easel
More Than Just Painting (Although that is always THE favorite in our classroom!)
Leaf Brushes
Materials Needed: Leaves that are still on small branches. Use these to paint with instead of brushes!
Growing Flowers Theme Large Group Games that help build their muscles while they have fun together
Hide And Seek
Materials: Hide several flowers (artificial) in the classroom or playground. Have the children look for a specific flower! Tell them, you'll find many flowers, but right now we are ONLY looking for purple flowers, or red flowers, etc.
Growing Flowers Theme Ideas for Your Library and Literacy Activities for your Preschool Classroom
Book Suggestions for the Library
(I LOVE Amazon, and some of the links below will take you to the Amazon website. If you do choose to purchase yours through Amazon, they do send me a few cents--which supports my coffee habit! )
Alison's Zinnia by Anita Lobel
Counting Wildflowers by Bruce McMillan
Everyday Garden by Cynthia Rylant
Flower Gardenby Eve Bunting
Growing Vegetable Soup (Voyager Books) by Lois Ehlert
Here Are My Hands by Bill Martin, Jr. and John Archambault
Jack's Garden by Henry Cole
Paddington Bear in the Gardenby Michael Bond
The Rose in My Garden by Arnold Lobel
The Tiny Seed (The World of Eric Carle)by Eric Carle
These books may be available at your local library. You can also purchase them through Amazon by clicking on the titles. Do not limit yourself to just these books! There are many books about growing flowers- fiction and non-fiction- that would be wonderful to support your preschool lesson plans in your preschool classroom!
Growing Flowers Theme activities to help your Preschoolers develop math skills and those small muscles in their hands!Flower Arranging
Materials: Clay and artificial flowers.
Let the children work those small muscles by manipulating the clay. Invite them to stick artificial flowers into the clay for a beautiful arrangement!
Parts of a Growing Flower
Materials: artificial flowers with most of them "dissected" into parts: flower, stem, leaf.
4 large pieces of paper with the flower parts written on them (flower, stem, leaf, whole flower). Also, draw a basic picture of each next to the label.
The children sort the pieces onto the correct paper.
After sorting, encourage the children to count how many of each part they have. Which do they have more of? Stems? Leaves?
Flower Counting
Materials: In advance, hot glue some artificial flowers and ribbons on a large craft stick. Let the children use this to count the flowers that you have in your math center! Count the red flowers, count the blue flowers...they will all love using the Flower Power wand to count with!
Growing Flowers Theme Music and Movement Activities and Ideas to get your Preschoolers Movin' and Groovin'!
Growing Flowers Song
sung to Frere Jacques
Use this song as one to act out!
Flowers are growing, flowers are growing (move hands from your sides to up over your head)
All around! All around! (point around the room)
So many pretty colors! So many pretty colors! (hand over eyes to look)
Fill the ground, fill the ground! (point to floor around the room)
Let's go see them, let's go see them! (hand over eyes to look again)
Growing bright, growing bright!
We'll use our noses to smell them, (bend over and pretend to smell)
and use our eyes to see them, (bend over and pretend to look at a flower)
What a sight, what a sight! (clap hands and display a very happy smile!)
Growing Flowers Activities for the Senses!
Growing Flowers
Thank you to Jacqui from Copmanhurst, NSW Australia for this idea!
And sand, shovels, buckets, water, silk flowers, small branches from trees, watering cans and water
The children can dig a long trench and plant a beautiful garden. then allow the children to water the plants. Talk about how to care for our gardens, what plants need to survive,etc.
Growing Flowers Theme Science Activities--for your Preschool Scientists in Training!
Growing Strawberries!
Materials needed: newspaper for table; strawberry jar (found in garden centers, they have openings or pockets on the sides); gravel (small size) for bottom of pot; potting soil; nylon socks; strawberry plants ( 1 for each opening or pocket in your pot); water
Cover table with newspaper.
Place about 1" of gravel in bottom of pot.
Add potting soil until it is level with the first opening or pocket.
Place some soil and the roots of ONE strawberry plant in a nylon tube. Place into the opening of the pot so the plant is on the outside of the pot but the soil and roots are mostly inside.
Continue filling the pot with soil to each pocket until you have planted them all.
Top off with more potting soil, water and put in a sunny place.
It takes a few weeks for them to grow!
Will It Grow?
Bring in 2 plants of the same type.
Ask the children if they think the plants will grow if you don't water them?
Label one plant "WATER" Label the other "NO WATER"
Ask the children who thinks the one with water will grow? Write down how many children on that plants label.
Do the same with the plant that says NO WATER.
Place the plants on a table and watch what happens over a week by watering one and not the other.
Writing Activity Ideas for Your Preschool Classroom's Growing Flowers Theme!
Leaf and Stem Rubbings
Materials Needed: Crayons with the papers peeled off, leaves, white paper
Show the children how to place leaves under the paper and then use different crayons to rub (on the sides of the crayons, not the tips) to show the leaf prints!
Miscellaneous Activities for Your Preschool Classroom's Growing Flowers Theme!
Growing Flowers Theme Field Trips
Flower Shop
Take a trip to a local flower store or nursery OR see if they will come to your program and talk to the children!
Growing Flowers Theme Classroom Visitors
Do you have family members who like to garden? Can they come in and talk to the children and/or help them start a classroom garden?!
LOOKING FOR RELATED SPRING THEMES?
CLICK HERE to go to our Spring Theme
CLICK HERE to go to our Kite Activities and Wind Theme
CLICK HERE to go to our Planting Seeds Theme
Go to the MAIN THEMES PAGE from the Growing Flowers Theme
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Hey there! Welcome to Preschool Plan It! I’m Cheryl, a preschool teacher of over 20 years.
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