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Toddler Lesson Plans

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 Planning for groups - Creating our garden

 

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Extra

Large Group Activities

What color flowers should we plant?

Plant Flowers in pots and flower boxes on playhouse

Pick wild flowers and make a bouquet

Watch beans grow on window

 Listen to ‘The Tiny Seed’ Story by Eric Carle

Make Mother’s Day Gift

Small Group Activities

Color in pictures of flowers on easel

Grow sunflowers in cups then transplant to garden

Make a flower collage with petals and leaves

 Eat foods with seeds

Foot flowers- have children add a stem and leaves

 Veggie Garden Game- felt board

Make stepping stones for garden

 Worm home

Seed Packet Match

Story Time

 

 

Read Books About Gardening

 

 

 


 

 

 

Special Activities

Create a Flower Shop

Make a bouquet with flowers from shop and give to it to a friend

Paint Pots for the container garden

Start watering flowers every morning

Sort flowers by color

Seed Sort

Baking Cup Flowers

Garden Mural



Spring Gardening 

Blocks

Pots; Wooden Blocks

 

Dramatic Play

Make a Flower Shop

Manipulative/Math

Match the flowers;

Petal Count

Creative Art

Making Flowers on Felt Board

Library/Literacy

Books about Spring, and Gardening

Science and Nature

Pictures of Flowers

Sensory Table

Dirt

Music and Movement

Songs about Gardening

Outdoors

Plant our Container Garden