Who can help but enjoy springtime flowers?! “April showers bring May flowers.” What a fun thought. And U.S. Mother’s Day during May brings even more thoughts of flowers. While flower activities are great any time during the spring or summer, May does seem like a natural time to focus on flowers.
Here are some Montessori-inspired printables and activities featuring flowers. I’ll share the links to my previous posts with flower activities. This post will feature flower activities published since last May (except for flower arranging, which wasn’t a focus of my gardening roundup).
Montessori-Inspired Flower Printables
Free Montessori Botany Materials for a Gardening Unit (my roundup post with lots of free printables)
Activity of the Week – Free Friendship Flower Activities
Free Mini Flower Pack from 3 Dinosaurs
Free Flower Matching Cards and Parts of a Flower from The Helpful Garden
Free Flower Printables from Tired, Need Sleep
Free Montessori Nomenclature – Parts of a Flower by NJ at Teachers Pay Teachers
Flower Materials Available for Purchase from Montessori Print Shop
Flower Printables available for purchase from Montessori for Everyone
Montessori-Inspired Flower Activities
F is for Flower Activity and Water the Flower Activity (from my “Montessori-Inspired April Showers” post)
Montessori-Inspired Spring Playdough Activities (my roundup post, which contains a number of flower playdough activities)
Montessori-Inspired Botany/Gardening Activities (my roundup post from last year that contains lots of flower activities)
Fruit Flower (from my “Montessori-Inspired Food Art” post)
Free Flower Printables and Montessori-Inspired Flower Math Activities (my post at Living Montessori Now with links to printables and Montessori-inspired activities at PreK + K Sharing)
Egg Carton Garden from Harvesting Kale
Montessori-Inspired Preschool Flower Unit from Montessori MOMents
Growing Sunflowers in Recycled Pots from The Cookie Train
Butterflies, Ladybugs, and Flowers from Pasta and Beans from Maro’s Kindergarten
Flowers in Styrofoam: Fine Motor Activity, Simple Pasta Flower Craft, and Planting a Word Garden from Finding the Teachable Moments
Earth Day Scent-sory Bin from The Good Long Road
Gardening Sensory Bin from Growing a Jeweled Rose
Flower Sensory Bin from 3 Dinosaurs
Flower arranging from The Education of Ours, Glue Sky, Info Montessori, Montessori Mama, Simply Montessori, Chasing Cheerios, Kylie at Modern Parents Messy Kids, Just Montessori, and To the Lesson!
Flower Fun and Labeling a Collage of the Parts of a Flower, Pressing Pansies, and Flower Arranging from To the Lesson!
Botany Cabinet Work and Life Cycle of Our Garden from Making Montessori Ours
Springtime at Tot School from The Kavanaugh Report
Butterfly and Flower Color Matching and Buzzy Bee Pollen Count and Clip from Learning and Growing the Piwi Way
Match the Shape Flowers from School Time Snippets
Pre-Math Activity: Sorting Flowers from Amy’s Cooking Adventures
Nature Bracelets from Montessori Tidbits
Flower Posts from Carrots Are Orange (Photo from Montessori Botany Activity)
Spring for Preschoolers – Part 1 and Spring for Preschoolers – Part 2 from Sorting Sprinkles (unit contains a number of flower activities)
Botany: Trees and Plants from Mixing Playdough
Flower Activities from Trillium Montessori
Daffodil Work from Like Mama ~ Like Daughter
Flower Activities from Just Montessori
Good Poetry for Kids: Daffodils from Montessori Mischief
Have fun with May flowers! 🙂
Montessori Monday Link-Up
If you have some Montessori activity trays/lessons to share, please link up below. It’s fine to link up a post from your archives – and you may link up anytime during the week! Your post may be any Montessori-inspired activity or idea. It doesn’t need to be related to my Montessori Monday post.
Link up your exact post URL so that we can find your activity if we return to the linky at a later date (which I often do when I’m looking for activities for a roundup post). I publish the Montessori Monday post and linky at 6:00 a.m. EST each Monday and keep the linky open throughout the week.
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Thanks so much for including our Daffodil work in your Flower Activities. Today I linked up two more flower activities — one totally created by the children!
Thanks for sharing this today! I am looking for ideas just like these now! 🙂
What a wonderful round-up of flower activities! So many ideas gathered in one place. I’ll definitely be taking my time checking these all out for our unit next year since we just finished our Spring theme. Thank you so much for including my Spring posts by the way. It is such an honor to be included in a round up post! 🙂 I’m thrilled!
Thank you for featuring The Kavanaugh Report!
Thanks so much for included mixing playdough this week! It’s an awesome list of flower activities. Thanks for all the inspiration.
Love these ideas! I just put out dried rosebud spooning and chrysanthemum tweezing this morning 🙂
This is such a great resource. I’d love for you to share this at my Spring Bucket List Idea Share. Thanks for sharing, hosting, and Happy Spring!
This is such a great round up for Spring, Deb! Thanks for sharing on my wall today!
Included your fab ideas in my flower roundup from the Weekly Kid’s Co-op this week. Thanks for linking up! Krissy
So many great ideas!! I love flower crafts. Thank you for sharing at Sharing Saturday!
This is a great round-up! Thanks for sharing with us at Share It Saturday!
Colleen at http://www.sugaraunts.com
Thanks for including our scent-sory bin! We love Montessori Monday!!
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