Enjoy these fun activities for daycare centers about flowers. The activities below will introduce children to the flowers through a circle time activity, a story, a music and movement activity, a sensory table activity, a cooking activity, and a literacy activity. For each activity you will find the materials, instructions and discussion starters (verbal cues). This lesson plan works well in conjunction with a daycare center unit with a spring or summer theme as well as a science theme.
Circle Time
Name that Flower: Read Planting a Rainbow by Lois Elhert Paste empty flower seed packets and sample seeds onto index cards. Pass the index cards around as you read the story. Collect the cards, then hold them up one by one and have children name the flowers on the card.
Story Circle
Read Rose: A Flower’s Story by Joanne Randolph
Music and Movement
Three Little Tulips
Discussion Starters: This song sounds like “Six Little Ducks”
Instructions: Teach the children the song “Three Little Tulips” sung to the tune of “Six Little Ducks”
“Three Little Tulips”
Three little tulips I once grew,
A white one, a pink one, a red one too.
One little tulip grew, grew, grew.
It grew taller than the other two,
The other two, the other two.
It grew taller than the other two!
Sensory Table
Flower Petal Sensory Table
Materials: Sensory table, flower petals, flowers.
Discussion Starters: Encourage the children to describe what they feel and smell at the sensory table. Look at all of the brightly colored flowers! How do the flowers smell? How do they feel?
Instructions: Add some flower petals and flowers to the sensory table. Flower petals have amazing textures and stimulate children’s sense of sight and smell.
Alternative: Fill the table with potting soil or topsoil and add plastic flowers and plants. Also provide use plastic sized, child sized gardening tools.
*Money Saving Tip: Find flowers in your own yard or purchase less expensive flowers like carnations or daisies at the supermarket. Also contact your local florist for discarded flowers and flower petals.
Snack Activity
Edible Flowerpots: Use ice cream cones to represent flower pots. Use two scoops of chocolate ice cream for dirt and put in your “edible flower pot”. Put “Reeses Ice Cream Topping Pieces” in the chocolate ice cream to represent seeds. Place candy flower sprinkles on top of the chocolate ice cream to look like the seeds have sprouted.
Literacy: F is for Flower
F is for Flower
Materials: Poster Board (or flannel board), pictures of flowers and upper and lower case Fs (or flannel cut outs), whiteboard or chalkboard, chalk.
Discussion Starters: This is the letter F. F is for flower. This is how the letter F sounds. Can you make the letter F? What other things being with the letter F sound? Can you draw the letter F on the chalkboard?
Instructions: Create an F is for flower poster board or flannel board. The board should show the letter F in upper and lower case and pictures of flowers. Let children practice making the F sounds and writing the letter F in upper and lower case on the whiteboard or chalkboard.
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