Montessori Monday – Montessori-Inspired Flower Activities

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

F is for Flower Activity and Water the Flower Activity (from my “Montessori-Inspired April Showers” post)

Montessori-Inspired Spring Playdough Activities

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 (Design by Tom Parkin and Christina Chitwood-Parkin)

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 Flower Study Unit (Photo from Montessori MOMents)

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

Earth Day Scent-sory Bin from The Good Long Road

Gardening Sensory Bin (Photo from Growing a Jeweled Rose)

Gardening Sensory Bin from Growing a Jeweled Rose

Flower Sensory Bin (Photo from 3 Dinosaurs)

Flower Sensory Bin from 3 Dinosaurs

Flower Arranging (Photo from Simply Montessori)

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!

Labeling a Collage of the Parts of a Flower (Photo from To the Lesson!)

Flower Fun and Labeling a Collage of the Parts of a Flower, Pressing Pansies, and Flower Arranging from To the Lesson!

Parts of a Flower (Photo from Making Montessori Ours)

Botany Cabinet Work and Life Cycle of Our Garden from Making Montessori Ours

Color Matching Flower Pot (Photo from The Kavanaugh Report)

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

Parts of a Flower Activity (Photo from Carrots Are Orange)

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

Dissecting a Flower (Photo from Trillium Montessori)

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

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