Connecting children with the great outdoors is so important. In fact, nature inspires creativity in children and allows children to use all of their senses. Are you a fan of nature studies? If you have been here for awhile you know how much we love nature. It’s become a big part of our daily lives and I truly feel like the kids are happier and healthier for getting outside and exploring nature. I hope you love the Montessori inspired botany activities we are sharing with you today.
Montessori Inspired Botany
12 Months of Montessori Learning
I am sure a lot of you know what Botany is already, but this is a time to share and a time to learn. Botany might be new to some people and I think starting with the definition really helps give a vision to what we are doing.
Botany, also called plant science or plant biology, is the science of plant life and a branch of biology. A botanist or plant scientist is a scientist who specializes in this field of study. – Wikipedia
Let’s get started!!
We started our Botany study with a few of our favorite plant books:
The Magic School Bus Plants Seeds
They also took 20 minutes to watch The Magic School Bus Goes to Seed (it’s free on Netflix)
A couple of great books for parents to be able to easily guide your children along with nature study learning is Pocketful of Pinecones and The Nature Connection.
Reading books, working with our botany cards and watching The Magic School Bus really opened up the world of Botany for the children. We were now becoming botanist in training.
Learning and Labeling the Parts of a Plant
Our lovely Tulips- Grown and cared for by the hands of children.
We took daily nature walks to explore the plants and flowers around our neighborhood.
An invitation to explore the parts of a plant
They made their own plant out of the parts collected and labeled it.
Great Botany Printables:
The Helpful Garden has an amazing set of Botany Cards (some of them are shown in the above pictures).
Montessori for Everyone has a wonderful free booklet All About Plants.
I love these Nature Study Notebooking Pages for Plants and Trees Study from Notebooking Pages.
Seed and Plant Matching Cards from Montessori Print Shop.
Great set of Lesson Plans and Cards from Montessori Services
Don’t forget to pick up a nature journal. My children each have one and absolutely love to use them regularly. Our favorites are from eeboo, they are so pretty and glow in the dark. Take them with you on nature walks and trips to the park for an impromptu drawing session. Nature Journals can make wonderful keepsakes.
Do you know about Montessori By Mom?!
Montessori By Mom is an awesome company that puts together wonderful Montessori themed curriculum kits. They include everything you need for several different activities, plus printables, online resources, and they have a wonderful online community for sharing and asking questions. We LOVE our Montessori By Mom toolboxes. You can see how we have used them by clicking here.
The Shoots and Sprouts toolbox will have your children learning about plants, life cycles, develop motor skills, and so much more.
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Amazing blogs involved in the 12 Months of Montessori Learning Natural Beach Living ~ The Natural Homeschool ~ Living Montessori Now The Kavanaugh Report ~ Mama’s Happy Hive ~ Study at Home Mama ~ Child Led Life Every Star Is Different ~ Grace and Green Pastures ~ The Pinay Homeschooler
Have you checked out our Main Page for 12 Months of Montessori Learning? It is filled with wonderful information, free printables, and so much more. Join our wonderful Facebook group Natural Living and Learning
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This post is always so inspiring and beautiful! Thank you so much for linking up at the Learn & Play Link Up. Your post is featured this week on Christian Montessori Network!
Thank you so much!
Studying Botany soon! Thanks 🙂
I would love to win such an amazing things wow!
Its Earth day, would be beautiful to celebrate it this way too… ana
I Love the cheerful flowers blooming on the hillsides.
I love spring when everything comes to life again!
I love spring with the warm sunny air and the bright green new growth on all the trees. Love finally being able to walk around without coats!!
First time to your site & glad you had a give away because it allowed me to follow all your social media pages much faster hehe!! 🙂 Love this, my daughter is always intrigued with nature and the “ting bug worlds”….quick question though… how old is your youngest? My daughter is 2.5 and I would love to start advancing her botany knowledge. 🙂
So glad you joined me 🙂 My youngest is 2 1/2. She has been loving all of the flowers and nature walks. It’s a great age to start.
My favorite thing about spring is the amazement I experience year after year how life seems to spring forth from nowhere, how plants just know it’s time to sprout and I hope to instill this amazement in my five year old daughter through the use of materials such as these.
I love the idea of rebuilding a flower from its parts. Thank you for sharing!
Oh what a great giveaway! My favourite thing about Spring is all the new life that awakens once Winter is gone
My favorite thing about spring are the flowers and planting seeds!
Sunshine and flowers in bloom are the best part of spring!
I would SO LOVE to win this since I homeschool and since there’s Earth day celebrations the whole end of this month. Plus, we just started getting more into homesteading with gardening, so I bet the kids would be so into learning more about how plants grow with this kit! I would be SO GRATEFUL!
Perfect timing! We’re diving into botany this week. 🙂
Great giveaway these kits look really cool.
and our favorite thing is to finally have warm weather!
my favorite part of spring is usually harvest. were in florida, so our planting and harvest seasons are a bit backwards to the rest of the US…we start in late september to middle october planting, and harvest starting in late february…growing season here ends in early may. but, with all this bounty and the production of seeds taking place, its STILL a great time to learn about botany! 😀
I’ve been eyeing this for so long! I hope I win!!! What I love about Spring is the beautiful weather and the wonderful SMELL outdoors 🙂
Wow, this is such an amazing resource!
My favourite thing about Spring is the promise of Summer 😉
This spring, my favorite thing is that they’re installing a pool in our backyard!
My favorite thing about Spring is the promise of warm weather headed our way. After a long Michigan winter, I beg for warm weather!
Warm weather is coming!! And there’s nothing like a good spring thunderstorm!
I love the spring weather and the start of all the spring and summer festivals.
Wow! All the flower work is just beautiful. Very inspiring.
I love how everyone participated in your botany activities! Mavi keeps a journal as well and I love the part where they assembled a new plant and identified the parts.
Thank you so much Jae.
I love all these ideas! Thanks for this great opportunity!
I love having flowers in the house again. That is what I love most about spring. My granddaughter loves to help pick & arrange them with me. This is a wonderful giveaway, Thank you for this opportunity! -Danielle
Great articls, love getting new information.
Wonderful giveaway 🙂 my favorite thing about Spring is the excitement I see in my children’s eyes about everything coming alive and getting them outside on nature walks.
Thanks for all of the wonderful ideas and the printables.
The Montessori by Mom boxes sound like a wonderful enrichment opportunity.
Wow! What a genius idea! Thanks for the opportunity to win ♡
Thanks for the inspiration!
I love the book ideas! And a giveaway! I LOVE Montessori by Mom!
What a fun post! Lots of great ideas and pictures! I love the use of real flowers. 😉
Wow! Your tulips are gorgeous! I would love to know how you grew them that way. This whole unit study is wonderful! Love!
Great post! I love the bright colors. Your tulips are beautiful!