Spring Plant Life Cycle Resources for Teachers

Spring is here and it’s a great time to talk about planting seeds and the plant life cycle with kids. My book Little Seasons: Spring Seeds just got selected for the Kansas NEA Reading Circle Recommended Titles Primary List. The book is a funny and informative nonfiction picture book introducing the life cycle of seeds and exploring the season of spring, including interactive back matter, and it’s a perfect addition to classroom libraries.

The book already has a lot of free downloadable activities, including math sheets, coloring pages, a growth chart, a vegetable and fruit taste testing chart, and pocket chart games, but it’s always fun to add new things to the mix!

All the free activity pages can be found on my resources page.

Taste the parts of the plant

activity is fun for either school or home. This activity identifies parts of the plant and foods that come from those parts. Have a plate of vegetables ready for kids to place in the correct boxes on the page.

The activity is a fun and memorable way to learn parts of the plant and where food items come from. The added sensory elements of touching, tasting and smelling make it fun and engaging for kids.

Plant Parts and Plant Needs Flip Book

This activity comes on three letter sized sheets. The pieces are cut out, and glued together making a fun double layered flip book about plant parts and plant needs. The printout includes written and visual directions and two versions of the flip book: one where the plant part descriptions are included in the flip book, and one where they are in separate boxes and need to be glued on the correct pages.

Seeds Math Addition Worksheet

This cute little watermelon addition sheet is fun for K-1st grade. You can use beans, lentils, jelly beans, or M&Ms for counting. Kids place beans on each side of the watermelon and then add them together on the bottom.

Creative Plant Drawing Activity

I love when kids are allowed to be creative. This drawing page is a great one for an extra creativity booster.

Kids can cut out their seed of choice, or draw their own seed, glue it in the pot, and then draw a plant that the seed grows into. Imagination can come to play as kids imagine what a star or a cat shaped seed could grow into.

The above are all the new activity sheets that I’ve just added, but there are a ton more available. See some examples below. Find all the free activities for Little Seeds: Spring Seeds and all my other books at mirkah.com/free-resources and more in my teacher vault.

You can see the activities more in action from the above video. :)