Preschool Flowers and Bees Theme Activities
Below you can find tons of fun and engaging Flower & Bees Activities! Pick and choose the activities for your lesson or download a free copy of our Flowers & Bees Preschool Lesson Plan to save you time!
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Suggested Materials to add to the Art & Craft Center for Flowers and Bees Week
Here are some suggested materials to add to the Art & Craft Space this week:
Construction paper in all colors, Tissue Paper, Dried flowers and leaves, Flower and Bee Stickers, Flower and Bee Stencils, Extra black and yellow crayons, Dot markers, Chenille Stems, Flower Stamps
Construction paper in all colors, Tissue Paper, Dried flowers and leaves, Flower and Bee Stickers, Flower and Bee Stencils, Extra black and yellow crayons, Dot markers, Chenille Stems, Flower Stamps
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Painting with FlowersSet up a unique art invitation that engages the senses!
Preschoolers are sure to love the process of Painting with Flowers |
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Flower Sticky Collage
Use contact paper to create a sticky Collage.
Try attaching your contact paper to the wall by folding over the top and bottom of the contact paper, leaving the sticky part facing out. Doing this project vertically helps support physical development. **Alternate: Use dried flowers then add another layer of contact paper for a cute suncatcher. |
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Paint Flowers Outside
Set up an area outside where children can look at flowers for inspiration as they paint. Some ideas: bring your easel outside, bring paper on clipboards, set up a large sheet of butcher paper on a fence.
Paper Flowers
Provide a variety of materials and invite your preschooler to make flowers.
Provide: construction paper, garden magazines, chenille stems, dot markers, and edge scissors
Provide: construction paper, garden magazines, chenille stems, dot markers, and edge scissors
Quilled Paper Flowers
You can also try your hand at making quilled flowers. Provide your students with long thin strips of construction paper. Show them how to wrap the paper around a pencil. Once you remove it from your pencil you can glue it onto your paper.
Honey Drizzle Process Art
Tint clear glue yellow (liquid watercolors work great for this) until it resembles honey. Pour into a small cup, and drizzle the "honey" onto yellow paper, using mini honey sticks. Once complete set it aside to dry. For added fun, add bee stickers.
Flower Garden Mural-Group Art Idea
Have your students work together to create a flower garden mural. Tape a large piece of blue bulletin board paper to the wall, with a green grass border on the bottom. Encourage each child to create flowers to add to the garden. Throughout the season you can add different elements, everyone can create bees, or other insects, and other items they can find in a flower garden.
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Torn Paper Bee Craft
Make a torn paper bee craft. Tear up yellow and black paper, and use them to create stripes on your own torn paper bee craft. Don't forget to add a parchment paper wings, a stinger, and a head with google eyes, antennae, and mouth.
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Decorate a Flower Pot
Create your own custom flower pot (these make great gifts for Mother's Day)
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Add a pretend Flower Garden to your Space
Add Gardening Supplies to your Dramatic Play Space this week. Add gloves, mini tools, plastic flowers , plastic vases, and a pretend garden area. Don't forget to encourage literacy by adding old garden magazines, and catalogs to your space.
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Create a Flower Shop*
Reader Liza created this Flower Shop using our Flower Shop Dramatic Play Pack. Preschoolers love to explore flowers. So many vibrant and beautiful colors. Add plastic flowers, plastic vases, cards, tissue paper, and a cash register to your space. Our flower shop dramatic play pack includes all of the labels and order forms you'll need to easily set this up in your space.
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Reader Victoria shared her flower shop she created using our Flower Shop Dramatic Play pack.
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This adorable Flower Shop was created by our reader Jamaliah B.of My First School Family Childcare and Preschool. I love how she even added a "Delivery" Cart.
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Add Flowers to the Mud KitchenFlowers like marigolds are great for kids gardens. The flowers need to be plucked to promote new growth, giving preschoolers an opportunity to explore flowers with all their senses...without destroying a beloved garden.
Add flowers to the Mud Kitchen! Preschoolers can mix with water to transform them into all kinds of pretend dishes. |
Flower Garden Small World Play
Consider adding: Pretend Flowers, Green Felt, Pretend Bees, and other small garden items to the construction area this week.
Build Flowers with Loose Parts
Consider adding:
- Buttons in a variety of colors
- Twigs
- Tree cookies
- Silk Scarves
- Chenille Stems
- Ribbon
- Empty cans (with safe edges)
- Seeds
Build a Beehive with pattern blocks
Use pattern blocks to build your own beehive.
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Bumblebee Seek-and-Find Alphabet Game*
Practice matching uppercase letters with this Bumblebee Seek and Find activity found inside our
Flowers and Bees activity pack |
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Practice Writing Left-RightAdd this Bee and Flower themed pre-writing/pre-cutting practice page from the Flowers and Bees activity pack to your writing space this week. This activity encourages preschoolers to practice writing or cutting from left to right, helping them prepare to read and write.
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Bee Name CrownCreate this fun customized bee name crown for name building practice. Included in the Editable Name Activities Pack.
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Please Please the Bees
Please Please the Bees by Gerald Kelly is a super cute story that your preschoolers will love. Watch this read aloud by Rashida Jones on YouTube. Follow up the viewing by discussing the characters in the book, the title, and author. If your preschooler doesn't recall this information, go back and watch it again! Pause when Rashida reads the title and author, and when she says the bear's name.
Here is the Beehive
Here is a fun circle time rhyme! Watch a YouTube video of the rhyme Here is the Beehive from Jbrary!
Flower First Sounds
Gather a variety of faux flowers. Identify the name of each flower and have them guess the first sound of each one (Rose, Tulip, Lily, etc). This is great for children just beginning to learn that letters represent different sounds!
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Preschool Books about Flowers and Bees
Planting a Rainbow by Lois Ehlert
Are you a Bee? By Judy Allen
The Beeman by Laurie Krebs
The Tiny Seed by Eric Carle
Bees Like Flowers by Rebecca Bielawski
The Reason for a Flower by Ruth Heller
Are you a Bee? By Judy Allen
The Beeman by Laurie Krebs
The Tiny Seed by Eric Carle
Bees Like Flowers by Rebecca Bielawski
The Reason for a Flower by Ruth Heller
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Bee Ten FramesReader Erica shared a copy of the counting mats from our Pre-K Printables Club Flower and Bee activity pack. She used adorable bee erasers with these ten frames.
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Bee Counting MatPractice counting 1-20 with this cute bee mat.
This activity is included in our Flowers and Bees Activity Pack. Use the included printable bee counters or bee erasers like these adorable ones that our reader Erica used. |
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Transform shapes into FlowersChallenge preschoolers to create flowers using pattern blocks.
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