Garden Sprouts · Activity Pack · Ages 3–5
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Garden Sprouts · Activity Pack · Ages 3–5
Toilet Roll Flowers 🌻
Bright, cheerful flowers that never wilt — made from recycled materials.
What you need
- 2–3 toilet paper rolls
- Construction paper (green, plus flower colors)
- Child-safe scissors
- Glue stick
- Crayons or markers
- Green pipe cleaners or paper strips (for stems)
Steps
1
Flatten one end of a toilet paper roll and cut petal shapes along the flattened edge — about 5–6 petals.
2
Bend the petals outward so they fan out like a flower. Color the inside of the roll yellow (the center).
3
Cut a long strip of green paper for the stem and glue it to the bottom of the flower.
4
Cut leaf shapes from green paper and glue them to the stem.
5
Make a few flowers in different colors and tape them to a wall or put them in a cup as a "vase"!
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Garden Sprouts · Activity Pack · Ages 3–5
Garden Learning Fun 🌱
Discover how plants grow, count petals, and explore nature.
🌱 How Seeds Grow
Learn the life cycle of a plant:
- Draw 4 boxes on paper: seed → sprout → stem → flower
- Draw what each stage looks like
- "First we plant a tiny seed in dirt"
- "Then it grows a sprout, then a stem, then a flower!"
- Try planting a real seed in a cup of dirt
🔢 Count the Petals
Practice counting with flowers:
- Draw a flower and count each petal
- "My flower has 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 petals!"
- Draw flowers with different numbers of petals
- Try writing the number next to each flower
🔤 Garden Letters
Practice letter sounds:
- F is for Flower — "F-F-Flower"
- G is for Garden — "G-G-Garden"
- S is for Seed — "S-S-Seed"
- L is for Leaf — "L-L-Leaf"
- Can you think of more garden words?
🌈 Flower Colors
Explore colors in nature:
- "What colors can flowers be?"
- Draw 5 flowers, each a different color
- Name each color: red, yellow, pink, purple, blue
- If you can go outside, find real flowers and name their colors
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