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Preschool Seed Theme Activities

By Shaunna Evans 2 Comments · This content may contain affiliate links.

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If you take a walk with children or eat fresh fruits and vegetables together, you’re bound to come across a few seeds along the way. You’ll notice these little (and sometimes big!) treasures can be quite fascinating to preschoolers.

Here are all the resources you need for planning your preschool seed theme activities.

preschool seed theme planning guide with printable lesson plans, online activities, and more for teaching preschoolers about seeds

Why It’s Fun

When we can use concrete materials that kids come in contact with regularly it naturally increases their enthusiasm about the topic and it helps them make meaningful connections.

Kids come in contact with many seeds as they play outdoors. As they eat natural foods and know what to look for they also quickly realize that they eat many types of seeds.

It’s also a lot of fun to plant seeds so this seed theme can lead to many extension activities.

When to Teach a Seed Theme

While you can technically teach a seed theme any time your kids show an interest in the topic, we find that is most fun to teach during the spring or at least during a planting season (which could be year round depending on where you live!).

Teaching Tips & Major Concepts Kids Will Learn

If you’re planning a preschool seed theme there are so many ways to incorporate a wide variety of learning skills.

These are just a handful of concepts kids can learn about seeds:

  • What foods come from seeds
  • What seeds look like and how they compare to others
  • Seeds we eat and seeds we don’t eat
  • What happens when you put different seeds in water
  • What happens when you try to grow seeds in different materials
  • How long it takes different seeds to sprout
  • What different seeds look like as plants

You can also use seeds as manipulatives for many learning activities to teach math and literacy concepts.

Items to Collect and Request in Advance

If you get parents, friends, and family involved you can gather quite a neat collection of foods and seeds for kids to explore during your seed theme.

Collect or ask people to help you collect:

  • seeds from outdoors
  • new or old seed packets
  • foods that have seeds or come from seeds
  • pictures of seeds and/or plants from a gardening magazine or home improvement store advertisement

Printable Lesson Plans

Save time and get right to the playful learning with our printable lesson plan sets. Each set includes over 30 playful learning activities related to the theme, and we’ve provided different versions for home preschool families and classroom teachers so all activities are geared directly toward your needs.

 

This pack includes editable lesson plans and hands-on activities for a week full of math, reading, & science learning activities about seeds and the foods we eat that come from seeds. Watch this short video to see just a few examples of the types of activities and printables included in this set:

In addition to many hands-on activities that require little preparation, this set also includes the following printables:

1) Foods With and Without Seeds Shared Writing Recording Sheet
2) Uppercase Alphabet Seed Packet Cards
3) Lowercase Alphabet Seed Cards
4) A to Z Seed Writing Task Cards
5) 1 to 12 Flower Pot Seed Counting Mats
6) Seeds Science Journal
7) Seed Shape Tracing Task Cards
8) Seed Sorting Mat
9) Seed Theme Beginning Sounds Sort (Seeds T, F, C)
10) Seed Sprouting Graph

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Individual Activity Ideas on Fantastic Fun and Learning

Here on Fantastic Fun and Learning we’ve shared the following ideas to go along with a preschool seed theme.

Math fun with planting seeds sensory bin

An easy way to start seeds with kids

Seed sorting and fine motor play

Comparing seeds science investigation

Which foods have seeds science investigation

Make a seed art letter craft

More Activities from Creative Educators

We’ve also gathered many clever ways to teach kids about seeds. You’ll find sensory play ideas, art activities, tips for planting seeds with children, and learning activities too.

Informational YouTube Videos

Watch a real seed as it grows.

Peep and the Big Wide World is a great series for beginning science concepts. In this video Peep and friends learn about planting seeds.

YouTube Songs

Get kids up and moving with the Can You Plant a Bean Movement Song.

Sung to the tune of The Farmer in the Dell, kids will quickly learn in and sing along with Farmer Plants the Seeds.

Other Online Resources

Finger plays and action rhymes are a great addition to your preschool themes. Here are a few terrific options to go along with a seed theme.

Five Little Seeds from Not Just Cute

Seed and Gardening Rhymes on Preschool Education

If you’d like to supplement your hands-on learning with some online games you might try:

Sid the Science Kid Vegetable Planting from PBS Kids

Plants and Flowers Games on PrimaryGames.com

Favorite Books

There are some fantastic books to read for your seed theme. We’ve provided a brief summary about each of our favorite seed books. Books About Seeds for Kids

Other Props and Teaching Tools

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Reinforce learning with these hands-on materials and games to go along with your seed theme.

With these tools kids can plant their seeds and see what happens throughout the plant life cycle.

Build upon the information you’ve learned about seeds and try even more ideas from these gardening with kids resources. We’ve also explore books about gardening and how to garden with kids books here.

Free Printables

Plant Growth Tracking Sheet from Fantastic Fun and Learning

What’s Inside a Bean Seed Observation Sheet from Buggy and Buddy

Sunflower Seed Counting form 123Homeschool4Me

Plant Life Cycle Crown from Herding Kats

Possible Field Trips or Adventures

You don’t have to go very far to learn more about seeds! If possible set up a small indoor or outdoor planting space so kids can tend to their own seeds after they’ve planted them. If possible you might also:

  • visit a local plant nursery
  • visit your local home improvement store’s gardening center
  • invite a gardener to come and chat about seeds and taking care of plants

What Next?

A seed theme can quite naturally evolve into one of the following preschool themes if you would like to continue along with the concepts learned in your seed theme. Themes we have printable lesson plans for include links after them.

  • plants (exploring different kinds)
  • gardening
  • flowers-Lesson plans available for home preschool and preschool classrooms
  • fruits and vegetables
  • insects (and how they impact plants)-Lesson plans available for home preschool and preschool classrooms
  • trees-Lesson plans available for home preschool and preschool classrooms

Preschool Seed Theme Activities and Lesson Plans
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  1. lisa duffs

    April 23, 2020 at 11:13 pm

    found the information very informative and interesting my kids will enjoy doing these activities

    Reply
    • Shaunna

      April 24, 2020 at 9:53 pm

      That’s great to hear! Thanks, Lisa, for the comment.

      Reply

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