Let’s learn all about the different parts of a flower with this fun flower dissection activity for kids!

Flower dissection activity for kids

Whether you are doing a gardening unit at school or teaching your kids all about flowers, they will love this flower dissection activity.

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This week’s learning theme is all about plants. We got lots of rain last week and tons of flowers as a result. We decided to pick a few flowers so the kids could learn all about the different parts of a flower.

You can see all the different parts of a flower in the image below. Use this as a guide as you pull apart a flower with your kids.

We didn’t use all the scientific terms, but my three-year-old had fun identifying the petals, the pollen, the stem, and the leaves. She loved looking into the stem and seeing the hole, like a straw, that sucks the water and nutrients into the flower.   We even tried using part of the stem as a straw.

For older kids though you can teach them more about what the purpose of each part is and use the scientific terms.

Give the kids a magnifying glass so they can get a really close look at all the tiny parts, especially the seeds and pollen.

Don’t forget to let them shake a little pollen off the stamen.

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Have you done this flower dissection activity with your kids? Did you find any tiny bugs in your flower like we did?