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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Materials for the Art center

Materials to add to the Art Space this week:
Construction paper in all colors, Tissue Paper, Dried flowers and leaves, Flower and Bee Stickers, Extra black and yellow crayons,  Dot markers, Chenille Stems, Flower Stamps

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Painting with Flowers

Set up a unique art invitation that engages the senses!
Preschoolers are sure to love the process of Painting with Flowers

Nature Collage

This activity was shared by our friends from Building Blocks Family Child Care The preschoolers tinted clear glue with blue paint, then poured into a shoe box lid.  Next they added a variety of items from nature for their collage. 

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. 

Bottle Stamping Flowers

Sheena W. shared this idea. 
Provide green paper for preschoolers to cut stems from. Then provide empty bottles (the kind with bumps on the bottom) and shallow dishes of paint. Preschoolers dip the bottle into the paint and then on their paper. 

Paint Outdoors

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

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.

More Creativity Ideas

Egg Carton Bee from Pink Stripey Sox
Sticky Window Flower Collage  from No Time for Flash Cards
Design your own Flower Pot  from Nurture Store
​Yarn Wrapped Bee Craft from Housing a Forest
Printing Flowers with Celery from 123 Homeschool 4 Me

Add Gardening Supplies to your Dramatic Play Space this week. Add gloves, mini tools, plastic flowers and a pretend garden area. Don't forget to encourage literacy by adding old garden magazines, and catalogs to your space. 

*Create a Flower Shop

Community memeber 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. 

Community Member Victoria shared her flower shop she created using
printables from the Flower Shop Dramatic Play pack. 

This adorable Flower Shop was created by our readerJamaliah B.of My First School Family Childcare and Preschool. I love how she even added a "Delivery" Cart.

Pretend to be bee keepers!

The Children can have fun pretending they are Bee Keepers! Our Reader Erica of Erica's Educare Learning Center created these fabulous hives from bankers boxes. 

Erica also created "honey comb" inserts by painting bubble wrap and adhering it to cardboard.

Add Flowers to the Mud Kitchen

Flowers 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. 

More Dramatic Play Ideas

Pretend Play Beekeeping from Still Playing School
Beehive Dramatic Play from Kindergarteners for Congress

*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

Practice Writing Left-Right

Add 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. 

Bee Name Crown

Create this fun customized bee name crown for name building practice. Included in the Editable Name Activities Pack. 

More Language & Literacy Ideas

Make a Flower Flip Book from joyful Mama's Place

Fun 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

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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. 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. 

Color Changing Flower STEAM Exploration

Add a splash of art to your science activities this week by exploring Color Changing Flowers. Find all the details along with tips on my blog. 

Parts of a Flower

Explore the parts of a flower!
This activity from the Flowers and Bees activity pack is great for reinforcing knowledge gained from reading a great book about the parts of flowers like Flowers (Plant Parts) by ​Vijaya Khisty Bodach

Honeycomb Sensory Bin

Erica P. of Erica's Educare Learning Center
created this fun sensory bin using honeycomb cereal as  a base.

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Explore Flowers with the Senses

Use touch, smell, and sight to explore flowers in the mud kitchen. 
Marigolds are a great addition to preschool gardens. The flowers need to be plucked off to promote new flowers to grow. 
This is a great opportunity to allow preschoolers to freely explore flowers, without tearing apart a beloved garden. 
​Encourage preschoolers to mix the flowers with water, see how it changes the smell and texture. 

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Parts of a Bee

Learn all about the parts of a bee!
Explore bee specimens up close or watch an interesting video about bees. Then see if your preschooler can label the parts of a bee. 
Keep this activity in your Science Center all week. 
Find this printable in the PKPF Flowers and Bees Activity Pack

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Dandelion Bubbles

Invite your preschoolers to learn a little about flowers and create some bubbles. 

Materials: dandelions, dish soap, water, corn syrup, measuring cups

Preparation: Choose long stemmed dandelions, cut off the top below the flower and cut off the very bottom. Rinse the stem. *You can do this part with your students if appropriate. 
Set up containers with water that children can pour from, gather shallow dishes for mixing bubble solution.

Directions:

Start this activity by learning a little more about dandelions. Choose a fun book like The Dandelion Seed by Joseph P. Anthony, and investigate dandelions. 

Invite your preschoolers to create a bubble mixture. You can have a recipe ready or just let your preschoolers experiment. They can test out different formulas to see what works best. 
Here is a recipe to get you started:

• 2 cups warm water
• 1/3 cup dish soap
• 1/4 cup corn syrup​

Once the bubble mixture is complete, dip the stems into the mixture, then blow through the stem to make bubbles! If your bubbles don't work, adjust your bubble formula. 

Closing: 
Ask your preschoolers to recall something about the experiment that they learned or would like to try again in a different way. 

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Plant Flowers

Plant flowers from seeds or seedlings with your preschooler. 

Encourage your preschooler to help water the flowers in the garden. 
They can observe the changes the flowers go through over time. 

More Science and Discovery Ideas

Flower Garden Play Dough from Fantastic Fun and Learning
Flower Garden Sensory Bin from Mess for Less
Investigate Flowers from Scrumdilly-do

Bee Ten Frames

Reader Erica  shared a copy of the counting mats from Pre-K Printables Club Flower and Bee activity pack. She used adorable bee erasers with these ten frames.

Bee Counting Mat

Practice 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 Erica used.

Transform shapes into Flowers

Challenge preschoolers to create flowers using pattern blocks. 

Flower Sorting by Color and Size

Add some color and size sorting to your math center with this flower
sorting activity from the Spring Sorting Mats activity pack. 

Beehive Number Sorting

Practice matching up number words, quantities and numerals with a fun Bee theme!
This activity is from the Beehive Number Sorting Pack.

More Math Fun

Flower Counting from Little Family Fun
Flower Pot Math Game from B Inspired Mama
Color Matching from Kids Play Box
Color Matching Flower Buttons from The Kavanaugh Report

Consider adding: Pretend Flowers, Green Felt, Pretend Bees, and other small garden items to the construction area this week.

Move like a Bee

The song Bumblebee (Buzz Buzz) by Laurie Berkner is a super fun song that is guaranteed to motivate preschoolers to buzz around. 

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Sweep up a Flower

Clip cards are excellent for fine motor development and hand-eye coordination.  Add these bee themed shape clip cards and clothespins to your learning centers this week. Find these in the Flowers and Bees Preschool Activities Pack.

*Bee Shape Clip Cards

Encourage your preschooler to work on their focus and attention to detail while engaging in this fine motor activity. Pair colored sand with these Spring Fine Motor Sweeping mats. 

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Flowers & Bees Spatial Relationships Activity

For this activity you will need:

• Paper bees or stickers
• Flower cutouts or photos
• Small basket
• Tape

Purpose:
This activity is a great way to get little bodies moving in a variety of ways, while also working on spatial relationships and learning to recognize different types of flowers. 
Preparation:
Get started by taping your flower pictures or cutouts on the wall. If you have the Flowers and Bees Activity pack you can use the 3-part cards and the printable bee counters for this activity. 
Place your paper bees in a small basket on the opposite side of the room, with the tape placed nearby. 
Directions:
Children will go one at a time, give the child a paper bee with tape. Then, give the child two instructions; how to move and where to place the bee. 
Examples:
"Jump like a frog then place your bee under the bluebell"
"Skip to the flowers and place your bee next to the yellow dandelion"
"Gallop to the flowers and place your bee above the purple iris"

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Cutting Flowers

Practice scissor skills by cutting paper flowers. The cutting flowers activity from the Flowers and Bees Activity Pack includes a variety of flowers with straight lines and curves for preschoolers to work on mastering cutting skills. 

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Loose Parts

Consider adding:

• Buttons in a variety of colors
• Twigs
• Tree cookies
• Silk Scarves
• Chenille Stems
• Ribbon
• Empty cans (with safe edges)
• Seeds

More Ideas to Get Moving

Pollen transfer Activity from ABC's to ACT's
The Baby Bumble Bee Song and Movement Activity from The Inspired Treehouse

Take a Field Trip

There are all kinds of fun ways to engage in the community.
Here are three options for this theme depending on the structure of your program. 

• Travel: Take a field trip to a local garden center, you may even be able to set up a workshop with a local nursery. 
• Invite an Expert: Invite a Master Gardner or expert from your local nursery to talk about flowers and do an activity with your preschoolers. 
• Take a virtual field trip like this one from PBS

Dandelion Blowing

Encourage children to use deep breaths and practice breathing exercises as a way of handling their emotions. 
Gather some dandelions, or sit in a field of dandelions if you are lucky enough to have one!
Instruct preschoolers to hold their dandelion in front of them. Tell them to take a deep breath in for 3 seconds, then blow out blowing the dandelion seeds around. 
Later, this strategy can be recalled when a child is struggling to regulate their emotions. 

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Flower Sign In/Out Activity

Having an attendance activity helps children transition in and out of the classroom. This activity also promotes Name Recognition for preschoolers. 
This Flower Attendance Activity is included in our A Year of Attendance Activities pack.

Create a Newsletter

Create a newsletter to let parents know what's happening this week! Our Editable Newsletter Set, includes editable templates for the whole year!

*Baby Bumblebee Sing and Move

Baby Bumblebee is a fun song to share with preschoolers. 

You can add Bee Chip Clips or Bee Finger puppets for kids to use while singing. 

Keeping cards with song choices in your circle time area is a great way to support preschoolers choosing a song for circle time. 

These cards and sheets with the lyrics are part of the Fingerplays, Songs, and Rhymes Binder from PKPF

Here is the Beehive

Here is a fun rhyme to bring to circle time from Jbrary!

*Flower Color and Roll

Pull up a chair and invite a friend to play the Flower Color and Roll activity from the Flowers and Bees Activity Pack. Take turns rolling and coloring in the petals until each petal is colored in. 

Positional flower fun

Build listening skills, and learn new positional phrases with this fun activity! Provide each child with a real or faux flower stem (even a paper image would work). Encourage them to sit next to their flower, place the flower in front of them, place the flower behind them, etc.

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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Seed, Seed, Sprout

This is a fun variation on the game duck, duck, goose. Sit in a circle. Select a child to be the "gardener" and give them an empty plastic watering can. The child will walk around the circle gently tapping each classmates head, and saying "seed". Then they will select a student and pretend to water them while saying the word sprout. The student will slowly pretend to sprout, and they will switch places until everyone has had a turn.

Parent Engagement Newsletter

The May edition of the Parent Engagement Newsletters from Pre-K Printable Fun includes a fun Flower Collecting Game for families to engage in. 
If you have this pack, be sure to send home the game during Flowers and Bees week!

Classroom Display

Assign each family a color, ask them to find a flower that color and take a photograph. Print the photos and display in the classroom. Get as many different colors as you can!

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Flowers and Bees Preschool Activity Pack

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This 70 page activity pack includes 21 games and activities for your preschool Flowers and Bees theme:

Bee Shape Clip Cards

Bee & Hive Shape Matching Mat

Flower Petal Color Matching Mats

Petal Matching Cards

Flower Color & roll game

Bee & Beehive Number Matching Cards

Fine Motor Pre-Writing/Cutting Practice Activities

Bumble Bee Seek and Find File folder game

Flower & Bees Count & Clip Cards

Flower Puzzles

Beehive Counting Mats (1-10) with Frames and Counters

Beehive Counting Mats

(1-10) with blank Frames

Petal Counting Mat 1-20

Parts of a Flower

Flower Sorting

Bee Life Cycle

Growing a Flower Sequence

Parts of a Bee

Flower and Bee word wall cards

Flower and Bee 3-Part Cards

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Flower Shop Dramatic Play Pack

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Kids love to pretend they're florists! This 14-page dramatic play pack includes all of the signs, and printable props you'll need to set up your pretend play flower shop.

Inside this pack you will find:

Welcome to the Flower Shop Sign

Labels (Tissue Paper, Vases, Flower Pots, Bouquets)

Same Day Delivery Sign

Small Medium Large Sign

The Florist is Open/Closed Sign

Sample Arrangements Poster

Flower Labels (Carnation, Dahlia, Daffodil, Tulip, Rose, Sunflower, Daisy, Lily)

Flower Prices Poster Blank Prices

Flower Prices Poster-Price Sheet

Fresh Flowers Sign

Color Flowers Labels (Red, Orange, Yellow, Blue, Purple, White)

Order Form

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Attendance Daily Sign In Activities

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This set includes themed daily sign in and sign out attendance activities for your whole year! These activities help young children learn to recognize their names in a fun way. Your students will love finding their names each day. Simply laminate, add velcro and hang on a wall (or place in a binder).

This editable .pdf file includes an automated class list to make it easy to customize your sign in activities. Simply fill in the form and all of the activities will automatically update with your student names.

Inside this editable set you will find the following themed activities:

• Back to School lunchbox/bus cards
• Apple Tree/Apple cards
• Farm/Hay cards
• Pumpkin Patch/Pumpkin cards
• Fire Safety/Fire Truck cards
• Halloween/Candy Corn cards
• Spider Wed/Spider
• Fall Tree/Leaf cards
• Turkey/Feather cards
• Christmas Tree/ornament cards
• Snow/Snowball cards
• Dental Health/Toothbrush cards
• Valentine’s/Candy Heart cards
• Rain/Raindrop cards
• St. Patrick’s Day/Gold Coins cards
• Bubbles cards
• Easter Basket/Egg cards
• Flower/Petal cards
• Ice Cream/cone cards
• Fourth of July/Star cards
• Camping/Tent cards

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Spring Fine Motor Sand Sweeping Mats

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Here is a fun way to support preschoolers with fine motor development and focus skills. 

Combine these spring mats with colored sand for an activity your preschooler will ask for again and again. 

This 21-page pack includes the following Spring themed printing sweeping mats:

• Puddle Sweeping Mat
• Bubbl Sweeping Mat
• Raindrop Sweeping Mat
• Umbrella Sweeping Mat
• Lily Pad Sweeping Mat
• Bird Sweeping Mat
• Tulip Sweeping Mat
• Daffodil Sweeping Mat
• Butterfly Sweeping Mat
• Sheep Sweeping Mat
• Earth Sweeping Mat
• Gold Sweeping Mat
• Shamrock Sweeping Mat
• Carrot Sweeping Mat
• Egg Hunt Sweeping Mat
• Rainbow
• Sweeping Mat

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Color Cut And Paste a Scene

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Preschoolers love color, cut, and paste activities! These activities give young children a chance to practice essential skills they will need for learning to write and complete more advanced activities later on.

This pack includes the following 17 printable Color, Cut, and Paste Scenes:

• Pumpkin Patch
• Apples
• Acorns
• Halloween
• Christmas
• Beach
• Zoo 
• Country
• Camping 
• Desert
• Forest
• Easter
• Park 
• Fantasy
• Spring Weather
• Pond
• Under the Sea

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Trace and Color Pre-Writing Sheets

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Trace and Color sheets are great to have on-hand for children of all ages. 

Children love simple coloring sheets, these pages have an added tracing element for engagement as well as development of fine-motor and hand-eye coordination. 

Use them anytime or pair with your themed curriculum. 

This 17-page pack includes the following Trace & Color Sheets:

• Roses
• Rocket
• Ice Cream
• Car
• Sailboat
• House
• Eggs
• Medieval Fantasy
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• Apple Tree
• Umbrella
• Snowman
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Flower Sorting by Size

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Invite your preschooler to practice sorting by size and color with flowers.

This 6-page PDF includes:

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• Flower Sorting Cards
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Spring Rhymes for Preschool Circle Time

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Jump into Spring with these engaging Spring Rhymes! Perfect for one-on-one engagement or circle time with preschoolers.

This set of 5 printable Spring Rhymes and pieces is a fun way to add music and movement to your group time. These rhymes support your pre-k students in developing important math and literacy concepts such as letter identification, vocabulary words, rhyming, one to one correspondence, shape recognition, counting, and positional phrases.

Inside this 10-page PDF you will find:

• Welcome Spring Chant
• Rainbow Rhyme
• Bees in the Garden
• Earth Day
• Five Little Robins
• Pieces for Magnet or Felt Activities

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Spring Calendar Number Cards

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This set of Calendar Cards is a versatile tool for early learning! Use these calendar number cards in your pocket chart calendar, or as a linear calendar for group calendar or math activities.

This set features several different Calendar Card Number designs to choose from all season long. Mix and match the themed numbers to create a variety of different patterns (AB, ABB, ABC, etc).

This 40-page PDF includes:

• Month Cards (Northern and Southern Hemisphere)
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• Year Cards
• Days of the Week
• Holidays and Special Days
• At Home/At School Heading Cards

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• Tulip Design
• Rainbow Design
• Umbrella Design
• Bunny Design
• Clover Design
• Bird/Nest Design
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• Butterfly Design
• Kite Design
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Name Activities Editable

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Name activities for preschoolers with fun themes for the whole year. Add some fun to your language & literacy lessons with this set of name building and recognition activities for early learners.  

This 24-page PDF includes:

Cut & Paste Crowns:

·       Snowman

·       Bee

·       Crab

·       Scarecrow

·       Bands for crowns

Build My Name Activities:

·       Snowman

·       Beehive

·       Palm Tree

·       Popsicle

·       Crayon

·       Fall Tree

Feed the Animal Name Activities:

·       Bunny/Carrots

·       Bear/Blueberries

·       Dog/Bones

·       Squirrel/Acorns

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Positive Student Notes

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These low prep note cards make it easy to show your students some positive affirmation and support all year round!

This 15-page PDF includes the following fun themed notes:

• September: Apples
• October: Pumpkins
• November: Leaves
• December: Gingerbread
• January: Snowflake
• February: Snowman
• March: Kite
• April: Umbrellas, earth, puddles
• May: Flowers
• June: Sunglasses
• July: Ice Cream
• August: S'mores

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