Gardening teaches kids so many skills. Whether you’re planning a gardening unit for a homeschool or school classroom, there are free Montessori materials available online that can add to your unit. I’ve put together a list to help you with any gardening unit.
Free Printable Montessori Botany Materials Available Online
Free Montessori Botany Materials
Images in Collage:
- Botany materials (From Plant to Food, Whole and Half Fruit, All about Plants Printable Book (Plant Kingdom Image part of that printable), Life Cycle of a Pumpkin, and Life Cycle of an Apple) from Montessori for Everyone
- Parts of the Seed Nomenclature Cards and Little Booklet and other Botany Materials from The Helpful Garden
- Parts of a Tree and Parts of a Leaf and Parts of a Tree (subscriber freebies) from Trillium Montessori
- Parts of a Plant and Parts of a Tree (subscriber freebies) from The Natural Homeschool
Botany materials from Montessori Materials (Some materials are available for purchase, but there are many free materials with purple links for leaf, plant, flower, and root cards and booklets.)
Parts of a Plant Nomenclature Cards from NAMC’s 3-6 Montessori Homeschool Program Friendship Flower Activities
Free Montessori Botany Materials for a Gardening Unit
Images in Collage:
- Elementary Leaf Unit from Temple of Ganesha Montessori
- Fruits and Seeds 3-Part Cards (subscriber freebie) from Mama’s Happy Hive
- Spring Flower and Bulb Identification Cards (pictured) and Leaf Identification Cards from Wildflower Ramblings
- Montessori Flower Matching Cards – Part to Whole from Montessori Cards and Activities at Teachers Pay Teachers
- Bilingual Garden Markers from Uno Zwei Tutu
Leaf Cards, Booklet, and Wall Charts from Homemade Montessori
Plant Activities and Free Printables from Every Star Is Different
Montessori Plant Printables Search and Montessori Botany Printables Search from Teachers Pay Teachers
Botany album/activities from Wikisori
Botany album/activities from Montessori Album
My Posts with Free Botany Materials
- Montessori-Inspired Botany/Gardening Unit
- Shoots and Sprouts Activities + Free Printable from Montessori By Mom
- Free Eat-a-Rainbow Printables and Montessori-Inspired Activities
- Montessori-Inspired Vegetable Unit
- Montessori-Inspired Fruit Unit
- The Ultimate Guide to Montessori-Inspired Leaf Resources and Activities
- Free Flower Printables and Montessori-Inspired Flower Math Activities
- Free Tree Printables and Montessori-Inspired Tree Activities
Directions for Using the Materials:
Montessori Print Shop has great information on how to prepare Montessori 3-part cards and how to use Montessori nomenclature.
More Gardening Resources:
Check out my Gardening/Botany Pinterest Board for many more gardening activities.
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Have fun gardening and learning about plants! 🙂
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Leptir says
March 31, 2011 at 11:12 amThanks for great resources 🙂
Deb says
March 31, 2011 at 7:07 pmYou’re welcome, Natasa! I had fun finding them! 🙂
Valerie says
March 31, 2011 at 8:29 pmThank you for the great links!
Deb says
April 1, 2011 at 1:32 pmYou’re welcome, Valerie! Thanks for your comment! 🙂
Shelley (EvenAndy) says
April 1, 2011 at 4:15 amThis is awesome! Thanks so very much! I am about to tweet and share this link on facebook.
Deb says
April 1, 2011 at 1:46 pmThanks so much! I really appreciate it Shelley! 🙂
Julie says
April 1, 2011 at 10:43 amInteresting links, thanks for sharing.
Deb says
April 1, 2011 at 4:53 pmThanks for visiting and commenting, Julie! 🙂
sheila says
April 1, 2011 at 1:16 pmOkay, I’m not crazy, but I’m totally going to print this leaf thing off for my husband, lol.
I AM!
Deb says
April 1, 2011 at 4:56 pmThat’s great, Sheila! All the great things I got to learn from what my kids were doing made up some of the fun of homeschooling! 🙂
JDaniel4's Mom says
April 2, 2011 at 7:53 amI didn’t know much about the structure of a leaf. Thanks for sharing!
Deb says
April 3, 2011 at 3:56 pmI was always amazed at how much I learned from the preschool-level Montessori materials – they are awesome! Thanks for your comment! 🙂
Discovering Montessori says
May 28, 2012 at 10:26 amI love FREE!! Nice quality materials you have round up. Thank you for sharing.
Deb says
May 30, 2012 at 7:15 pmThanks so much! Isn’t it amazing how many great free botany materials there are?! 🙂
Anna says
April 17, 2018 at 9:59 amThese are great. Thanks for printables. thanks,Anna