Montessori-Inspired Flower Activities Using Free Printables

By Deb Chitwood from Living Montessori Now

I love spring flowers, and we have lots of them in our new Montessori-inspired flower unit!

Our flower unit has Montessori-inspired activities using free flower printables along with a new Montessori-inspired flower pack for subscribers to our free newsletter at Living Montessori Now!

You'll find many activities for preschoolers through early elementary throughout the year in my previous posts at PreK + K Sharing. You'll also find ideas for using free printables to create activity trays here: How to Use Printables to Create Montessori-Inspired Activities. 

At Living Montessori Now, I have a post with resource links of Free Printables for Montessori Homeschools and Preschools.

Montessori Shelves with Flower-Themed Activities

Montessori Shelves with Flower-Themed Activities

You’ll find Montessori-inspired flower-themed numbers, letters, and and more (part of my subscriber freebie pack, so just sign up for my email to get the link and password … or check the bottom of your latest newsletter if you’re already a subscriber) 

 

Go to my Free Flower Printables and Montessori-Inspired Flower Activities post at Living Montessori Now for the free printables and activity ideas you see on the shelf and collage above!

Free Montessori-Inspired Flower Pack

Montessori-Inspired Flower Pack for DIY Cards and Counters, Number or Letter Matching, Number or Letter Basket, Bead Bar Work, Hands-on Math Operations, Number or Letter Sand Writing Tray, Letter Tracing, DIY Movable Alphabet, and Creative Writing (subscriber freebie, so just sign up for my email to get the link and password – or check your inbox if you’re already a subscriber).

Related Resources and Activities

Flower Science

• Montessori-Inspired Gardening Unit
• Montessori-Inspired Flower Activities
• Free Flower Printables and Montessori-Inspired Flower Math Activities
• Shoots and Sprouts Activities + Free Printable from Montessori By Mom
• Montessori Flower Identification and Arranging for Toddlers and Preschoolers
• Montessori Nature Tray Sorting and Counting for Toddlers and Preschooler
• Nature Walk and Nature Cutting Tray for Toddlers and Preschoolers
• Montessori Nature Tray with Magnification Work and Flower Arranging
• Spring Book Lists for Preschool and Elementary Kids: Garden Adventures Around the World
• Montessori Nature Tray with Vocabulary – Parts of the Plant
• Flower Cutting with Great-Grandma {Montessori on the Go}
• How to Help Children Experience Nature and Growing Plants Outdoors without a Garden
• How to: Montessori Indoor- or Small-Space Gardening in a DIY Sensory Table
•  Encouraging Kindness with Gardening Activities and the Kindness Elves
•  Life Cycle of a Bean Plant and Seed Planting Activities
• Montessori-Inspired Flower Activities with Spielgaben
• Free Tree Printables and Montessori-Inspired Tree Activities
• Free Montessori Botany Materials for a Gardening Unit
• Family Fun with Small-Space Gardening in a Vertical Planter
• Free Seasons of an Apple Tree Cutting Strips (Montessori-Inspired Instant Download)
• Free Tree Songs and Educational Videos {Learn about Trees, Apple Trees, and Seasons}
• Free Tree Do-a-Dot Printable (Montessori-Inspired Instant Download)
• Gardening/Botany Unit Study Pinterest Board

If you'd like ideas for calendar-based themes throughout April and May, see my April Themed Activities for Kids and my May Themed Activities for Kids.

 

Be sure to go to my Free Flower Printables and Montessori-Inspired Flower Activities post at Living Montessori Now for lots of free printables and activity ideas!

 

Have fun with flowers this spring!

 

Deb Chitwood is a certified Montessori teacher with a master’s degree in Early Childhood Studies from Sheffield Hallam University in Sheffield, England. Deb taught in Montessori schools in Iowa and Arizona before becoming owner/director/teacher of her own Montessori school in South Dakota. Later, she homeschooled her two children through high school. Deb is now a Montessori writer who lives in San Diego with her husband of 48 years (and lives in the city where her kids, kids-in-law, and grandkids live). She blogs at Living Montessori Now.

Spring Is In Full Bloom in Pre-K!

Hi! I'm Ayn and I am a Ga. Pre-K teacher, serving 4 and 5 year olds in an inclusive setting. I share my classroom adventures on my blog, little illuminations.

Spring is finally here!!!! We have been celebrating the arrival of Spring in our Pre-K class for a little while now, but we have had several cold snaps, so it hasn't felt like Spring was official until the last couple of weeks. We have been learning about plants and flowers in our Pre-K class, so I thought I would share some of our fun with you here today.

We started by talking about the parts of a plant and how each part functions to help the plant grow. Later, we put together a little flower and the children helped me label each part (they named, we wrote). Originally, we didn't have pollen as part of this plant activity, but they insisted, so we cut up some yarn to make little pollen particles. (The children are very familiar with pollen, as in our area the pollen is so thick it coats the cars, streets and outside areas in a thick yellow-green dust. The kids actually collect bucketfuls on the playground and call it "broccoli" because it does look like little broccoli stalks when it falls from the trees, before being dispersed. )

We talked and read a lot about how water travels up the plant through the roots through little veins. This was a tough concept for the kids to really get without a visual, so we put some fresh cut celery stalks in colored water to we could observe the colored water as it traveled up the celery to the top. The children were so excited about this that they checked the celery every day!

We didn't want to waste the bottom we cut off, so we placed it in a bowl of water so we could observe it as it sprouted new growth.

We planted several kinds of seeds, and used some quick growing grass seed to make some "Hairy Harry"s. They drew a little face on the cups (unfortunately the faces don't show up very well in the pictures!) They loved watching the grass sprout and grow! 

The children were very busy drawing flowers and plants. It seemed every day I got a new batch of flower drawings! 

Right before St. Patrick's Day we used green peppers to make shamrock prints. 

We had several field trips that week along with other activities and didn't get to use all the peppers we had, so we used some of the peppers to make flower prints with paint in art center. I love that they experimented by making leaves and stems, and some even twisted the pepper around on the paper to make original flower designs a little differently.

We've been so busy with field trips and "getting ready for kindergarten" activities that Mother's Day just crept up on us. We made these cute little flower jars for our Moms using fingerprints to make flowers and planted a little flower in each for them to take home to Mom for Mother's Day. 

 

                 Happy Spring and Happy Mother's Day!

 Stop by and visit me anytime at littleilluminations.blogspot.com or visit the little illuminations fanpage on facebook! And be sure to check out PreK+K Sharing EEE!

Science for Kids: Honey bees, Flowers & Freebies!

Hi everyone! This is Sue Cahalane from Science for Kids Blog, I'm so excited to be here on the 29th of every month & I'm happy that spring has sprung! I just completed a flower & honey bee activity with my PreK students. Their little hands made the cutest flowers:

 We learned all about honey bees and their amazing eyes. Many of my students think honey bees see hundreds of the same image.  This is a misconception! Throw away those insect eye viewers!

(That comic above is entitled "The last thing a fly ever sees"! Pretty funny but it is bad science!) Bees see one image only: 

My kids are fascinated by the fact that bees actually have 5 eyes!

This is the worksheet I use:

Here are the patterns I use to create a little bee:

The worksheet & plant labels:

We planted Morning Glory seeds - they are fast growers! My kids say they look like little green dragonflies & I have to say I agree! Here they are in our greenhouse after just one week: 

For other science activities, please check out my Teachers Pay Teachers store, Facebook page, Pinterest page & my Science for Kids Blog!

Happy Spring!