Preschool Plants - Garden Activities for Preschoolers

You don't have to be an expert on botany to plan some fun science activities with your preschooler using plants. Taking the time for fun preschool plant experiments is a wonderful way to get your child interested in nature, get your child outdoors and spend quality time with your preschooler.

Featured Garden Activities for Preschoolers

Preschool Plant Activity - What Happened to the Dinosaurs?
Does your preschooler love dinosaurs, but doesn’t understand why they’re not around anymore? Or are you looking for a preschool plant activity to explain why plants need the sunlight? With this fun and easy preschool plant activity, your preschooler will understand how the dinosaurs died out and the importance of sunlight to plants.

Preschool Plant Activity - Pressed Flowers and Leaves Nature Book
Help your preschooler start a nature book by pressing flowers and leaves. Create a wonderful educational opportunity for them as they learn all about the names of plants and the parts of flowers and leaves by building their own nature book. 

Potato Plants - How to Grow a Sweet Potato Plant
Start off simple preschool gardening with this wonderful kids' science activity. You and your preschooler can learn how to grow a entire sweet potato plant with a sweet potato and some water. Let your preschooler learn all about roots, stems and leaves with this fun science experiment. 

Featured Preschool Plant Books

The Magic School Bus Plants Seeds: A Book About How Living Things Grow (Magic School Bus)

This is cute book in which classroom students hop onto a 'magic bus' so they can rescue a classmates plants. On their trip, they'll actually go into a plant and learn all about the different parts of plants.  Full of fun illustrations and a clever story, this book would be great for preschool educators or preschool parents who want to teach preschooelrs all about plants.

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Preschool Flower Jewelry
Make jewelry from flowers and leaves. Your preschooler will have fun exploring nature with this nature preschool craft. With just a few flowers, your preschooler can make a necklace, bracelet, pin, earrings and crown.

Make a Nature Collage
Help preschoolers appreciate nature and the world around them while getting exercise at the same time. Making a nature collage requires a few simple materials and encourages preschoolers exploration of everyday life.

Empowering your Preschooler
By letting your child make decisions, you allow her to develop a sense of autonomy and keep power struggles to a minimum. It's all in the approach - and you still get the behavior you want!