Preschool Flowers and Bees Theme

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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Planning your  Flowers and Bees Theme

Club Members can download all of our Flowers and Bees printable resources and this
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Download our Free Flowers and Bees Preschool Sample Lesson Plan

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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

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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

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Flower 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. 

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Nature Suncatcher

Nature is full of beauty and so many opportunities for exploration for curious little learners.  A nature sun-catcher is an easy and fun craft that allows your preschoolers to use materials they found to make a masterpiece they can hang in their windows.
Find the details on how to make a Nature Suncatcher with preschoolers on my blog

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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 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. 

Flower Egg Carton Craft

Provide egg cartons, paint and craft sticks for kids to create their own flowers. Some assistance may be needed for cutting up those cartons, preschoolers will enjoy being able to complete the flowers on their own.

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

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.

Sponge Tulip Flowers

Cut up sponges in the shape of tulips or other flowers for children to create flowers with.

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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Rainbow Leaf Prints

Have children collect leaves from outside. Then have each child pick a leaf, paint the leaf with different colors of the rainbow and stamp it on a white piece of paper. This will create beautiful and unique rainbow leaf prints that you can use to decorate your classroom! ​

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Flower Salt Painting

Create a simple flower shape from glue and sprinkle with salt. Once the glue has dried use watercolors to paint the salt to create a beautiful spring inspired art piece!

Sunflower Craft

This craft is a great way to encourage fine motor development as well as hand-eye coordination! An alternative to the glue could be contact paper.

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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Pretend to be beekeepers!

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.

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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. 

Beekeeper Dress-Up

Talk about what beekeepers wear and why, gather some material similar to what beekeepers wear for children to dress up in. This is a good opportunity to get creative with your preschoolers. Make beekeeper costumes with play silks.

Small World Play Flower Garden

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

Build a Beehive

Create beehives using blocks, get creative and see what can be built with different types of blocks.

​Build a Block Bouquet

Provide your students with faux stems, and greenery. Using blocks (combined with the faux stems and greenery) create a block bouquet for Mom. Take a photo to share your creations!

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

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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-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. 

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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 a fun circle time rhyme! Watch a YouTube video of the rhyme Here is the Beehive from Jbrary!

Here is the Beehive

Flower First Sounds

Gather a variety of flowers (fake, real, or images). 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

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Bee Ten Frames

Reader 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 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 our reader Erica used.

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Transform shapes into Flowers

Challenge preschoolers to create flowers using pattern blocks. 

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Flower Sorting by Color and Size

Collect a variety of flowers and sort them by Color.
You can also add some color and size sorting to your math center with this flower sorting activity from Pre-K Printable Fun

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