Best Montessori Botany Activities for Kids – Hands On Flower Activities

Montessori botany activities offer your children a unique, hands-on approach to exploring the natural world, fostering a deep appreciation for plants. These flower activities engage young minds through sensory exploration, creativity, and scientific observation.

By dissecting flowers, creating botanical art, and participating in nature walks, children learn about the different parts of a flower, develop fine motor skills, enhance their vocabulary, and cultivate a sense of wonder and respect for the environment.

These activities align perfectly with the Montessori philosophy, which emphasizes learning through direct experience and encourages children to become curious, independent learners.

Botany Activities for Kids

Montessori Botany Activities – Flower Activities for Kids

Connecting children with the great outdoors is so important. In fact, nature inspires creativity in children and allows them to use all of their senses. Are you a fan of nature studies? If you have been here for a while, you know how much we love nature. It’s become a big part of our daily lives, and I genuinely feel like the kids are happier and healthier for getting outside and exploring nature.

I hope you love the Montessori botany activities we are sharing with you today.

I am sure many of you already know what Botany is, but this is a time to share and learn. Botany might be new to some people, and I think starting with the definition helps give a vision of what we are learning about.

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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

Montessori Botany

 We started our Botany study with a few of our favorite plant books:

Botany Books for Kids

They also took 20 minutes to watch The Magic School Bus Goes to Seed.

Pocketful of Pinecones and The Nature Connection are two great books for parents to help them easily guide their children through nature study learning.

Reading books, working with our botany cards, and watching The Magic School Bus opened up the world of Botany for the children. We are now becoming botanists in training.

Learning and Labeling the Parts of a Plant

 This was such a wonderful hands-on activity. After the children had used their Botany parts of a plant 3-part cards, they were ready for a wonderful experience labeling the flowers they were growing. Using real flowers is a nice way to tie any nature activity.

Lovely Tulips – Grown and cared for by the children.

We took daily nature walks to explore the plants and flowers around our neighborhood.

Parts of a Flower Activity

 An invitation to explore the parts of a plant

 They made their own plant out of the parts collected and labeled it.

Botany Printables:

Check out this AMAZING and Complete Flower and Plant Hands-on Learning Pack Here. 

The Helpful Garden has a set of Botany Cards (some of them are shown in the above pictures).

I love these Nature Study Notebooking Pages for Plants and Trees Study from Notebooking Pages.

Seed and Plant Matching Cards from Montessori Print Shop.

Flower Activities for Kids

Explore Montessori botany activities for kids with hands-on learning and engaging science lessons. Perfect for homeschooling, the resources here include gardening with kids, botany printables, and plant lessons that foster natural learning.

Dive into the study of plants and flowers with activities designed to enhance vocabulary, fine motor skills, and a love for nature.

From dissecting flowers to creating flower art, these Montessori botany lessons are ideal for curious young minds. Inspire independent, inquisitive learners with these amazing Montessori botany activities, perfect for both home and classroom settings.

 Remember to pick up a nature journal. My children each have one and absolutely love to use it regularly.

Our favorites are from eeboo, they are so pretty and glow in the dark. Take them on nature walks and trips to the park for an impromptu drawing session. Nature Journals are wonderful keepsakes and homeschool portfolios.

Flower Activities for Kids

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