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April 9, 2018 | 4 Comments

Garden Activities for Preschool

 

Preschool flower crafts

Is it spring yet? I mean I know it is technically spring but I was in Chicago last week in the snow?! Even if you are still walking through snow to get to your classroom you can make sure you are learning all about spring with these fun hands-on spring garden activities. If you want even more make sure you check out our Spring Garden thematic unit, it’s colorful, flexible, and will do the planning for you so you can relax and do what preschool teachers do best; make learning fun for your students!

Sticky Window Flower Garden for Toddlers

Flower Sticky Wall – great sensory experience!

vegetable garden sensory bin for preschool

Vegetable Garden Sensory Bin – this was a huge hit with my class and it is so easy to make!

 

spring garden theme for kids

 

 

Spring Garden Roll & Cover game. This is simple, roll the dice, count and place the erasers, and keep going until you reach the flower pot. Download this game board here.

sunflower kids craft

Giant Sunflower Craft – you could even make these the same height as your students ( just skip the stem part and use green ribbon the as the stem).

cutting into nature outdoor scissor skills

Cutting Nature – fine motor and nature all in one! I love garden activities like this!

letter game for kids

Gardening For Letters – you can do this in a sensory bin but it is much more fun in a garden!

spring circle time sense of smell (2)

Sense of Smell Circle Time – exploring flowers and graphing all at once!

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Nature Smash Painting – get colorful and messy naturally!

fine motor flower arrangements preschool

Fine Motor Flower Tray – a classroom free choice favorite!

Reading tray with the very hungry caterpillar

Hands-On Reading Tray – The Very Hungry Caterpillar

painting with garden vegetables

Garden Vegetable Printing

math fine motor flower tray

Fine Motor Flowers Math Tray – Free printable too!

garden activities for kids

Up in the grass or down in the dirt? This simple sorting game helps children to sort through what living things are above ground or down in the dirt below the grass and flowers.

 

Filed Under: Age Preschool, Age: Toddlers, Flower, Garden, Preschool Activities, Spring, Vegetables | 4 Comments

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4 Comments

  1. Sisters with a System says

    April 30, 2018 at 12:03 pm

    These ideas are fantastic! We have some medical issues and other busyness going on for May, but I plan to incorporate a lot of these activities into our nature study this summer. This will be the perfect way to engage my 3 yr old while the older kids and I are sketching and studying nature. Thanks!

    (I loved this post so much, I shared it on our fb page for our readers to enjoy. Thank you!)

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  2. zanuda says

    May 9, 2018 at 8:15 am

    Add “mud kitchen” to your list of garden activities. Easily done – with couple of old tables, old play kitchen, old pans and tin plates and plastic containers you don’t need any more. If you don’t want real soil, you could use compost. And of course sand and water. It will work for all range of activities like “cake decorating”, “making a dough”, “tea parties” – those kids will do on their own. And you could use it for other educational activities: http://www.mums-dads.co.uk/education/mud-is-good-mud-kitchen-even-better/

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  3. EmilyAZ says

    March 11, 2020 at 9:10 am

    Thank you for the art ideas 🙂 I agree with ^Zanuda for more mud play, dirty hands from playing in soil, touching worms, using kid-safe garden tools, and using more natural materials. Less sterile play environments and more time with kids in NATURE!

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