Plant Learning Activities

1. Go on a plant hunt in your backyard or in an empty lot.   Identify plants you see.
2. Play “Find-a-match” and practice sorting plants you find.
3. Make a bouquet of plants you find
4. Take a magnifying glass and ID plants and plant parts
5. Make plant rubbings (leaves are great)
6. Grow a grass head, or any plant – beans are great as they grow really quickly.
7. Press flowers and plants
8. Cut up an apple and identify the various parts that you see.   Enjoy eating a plant! See our post about apple fun!
9. Decorate flower pots.   Here is an example of decorating a plant pot with your kids art work.
10. Dissect a flower (where are the roots, the stem, the petals, the pollen, the leaves?)
11. Pretend or role play being a seed. What happens when it rains? What happens to the plant as the sun moves across the sky?
12. Using silk or dried flowers/plants, make a collage.   Or better yet, flower hair bows.
13. Make a food chain for the plant.   What does it need to grow?   what eats plants?
14. Make a terrarium or mini-ecosystem.   Fill it with plants, what plants would be best in your jar?
15. Do a “Plant Part” Art project
16. Create a “Counting Garden” and practice listening skills while counting and “growing” flowers.

more themes…