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Spring is the perfect time to introduce your little ones to the wonders of gardening! Our Garden Preschool theme combines the magic of growing things with essential early learning concepts.
Below, we’ve cultivated 15 hands-on activities that make math and literacy bloom alongside your preschoolers’ curiosity. We’ve also included over 40 worksheets.
This set is filled with fun pretend play as well as practical activities to help children work on letter and number recognition as well as basic counting, colors, and other skills.
By combining tactile experiences with gentle pencil practice, our Garden Theme creates a rich, multi-sensory learning environment where every child can blossom!
Here is your look at this fun set:
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This is one of my preschoolers’ favorite themes of the year! They love learning about plants, and all the wonders of a garden. One of their favorite activities is planting their own seeds and watching them grow. They also enjoy pretending to be gardeners, as they explore nature through play. Here are some other fun garden-themed activities you can do in the classroom!
It’s time for garden math fun! Count and sort seeds, compare quantities with “more or less” counting, and build number sense with flower-building activities. Explore 10 frames, count vegetables in the garden, and create colorful patterns with flowers. There are SO many hands-on ways to grow math skills with these garden-themed preschool activities!
Watch as the plants sprout their leaves in the spring. Place the correct number of leaves on each plant or use green pipe cleaners or even playdough for added fine motor practice.
Practice number sense while building your flowers in each pot. Use velcro or magnets on the pieces to attach.
Count how many flowers or vegetables are in the garden. Use toy numbers to show 1 more or 1 less int he boxes.
Practice one to one correspondence while counting the correct number of seeds onto each mat. Use pom poms or even real seeds. Add tongs for fine motor practice.
We love this activity for visual discrimination and practicing different pattern layouts.
How many different fruits and vegetables do you see? Use toy numbers or write the number you find in the box with a dry erase marker.
10-frame counting activities are great for preschoolers because they help build strong number sense and early math skills in a hands-on, visual way.
Patterns are an important early math skill and help children learn what comes next.
Here are some engaging literacy ideas for your garden-themed preschool activities! Enjoy the greenhouse letter identification activity and dig into upper and lowercase letter matching with the seed pockets. Create an interactive “What Do Plants Need to Grow?” anchor chart to build vocabulary and early reading skills. These hands-on activities will have your little learners blooming with excitement!
Here are some fun printable options as well.
Place this in your circle time or science area to create an anchor chart or an individual activity.
Practice letter identification by marking the matching letter inside with a pom pom, or clear bingo marker.
In this activity we are focusing on matching upper and lowercase letters.
These additional hands-on activities will help your preschoolers grow their early learning skills while having fun in the garden!
It’s flower time! Plant a beautiful flower garden by sorting the different flowers.
Grab your shape buttons to match the rains shapes falling from the sky.
It’s time to water the garden. Use beans, a dry erase marker or even playdough to get to the planters. Perfect for fine motor practice.
For this fun activity, use playdough for sensory and fine motor practice to create the shapes.
In addition to the hands-on garden preschool activities above, we also created 15 fun worksheets for you. These worksheets include tracing, scissor practice, counting, sorting, and more.
These fun literacy pages are a great way to continue the garden theme. Use them in a small group or for early finishers, they make an easy and quick way to practice learning.
Early math activities are an important part of preschool learning. Practice simple addition, number sense, and counting. They get to work on those skills with these fun easy-prep printables.
You will also want to practice to work on other skills with your preschooler like sorting, cut and paste with the patterns and matching.
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