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Spring is here and we are ready for the warm weather and blooming plants. Here’s a simple and fun flower activity combining counting and jumping that kids will love.
Last summer we visited the sunflower fields and ever since Riley has loved flowers, especially picking them for bouquets.
I decided to use an activity to help her learn some flower names and build her counting skills.
Riley loved this activity and afterwards she went outside to find some of the flowers. Looks like a trip to the Arboretum is in our future.
Easy Flower Counting Activity That Gets Kids Moving
For this Counting & Jumping Activity, You’ll Need:
- Paper (6 sheets)
- Marker
- Painters Tape
- Dice
- Printer (optional)
- Laminator Machine (optional)
Prepping This Flower Activity
First, you’ll need to find pictures of flowers on the internet and print them out.
Here is a sample idea of some flowers. Save it multiple times and crop each to show just one of the flowers.
Print each flower on a different sheet of paper.
Feel free to choose whichever flowers you would like for this activity.
Since my printer isn’t working, I decided to draw six different flowers.
I then numbered the papers 1 through 6.
TIP: If you don’t have a printer, and aren’t confident in your drawing skills, no worries! Simply draw a basic flower on all of them. but draw a different number of flowers on each sheet. For example: 1 flower on a page, 2 flowers on the next, 3 flowers on the next, etc.
I chose to use rose, poppy, daffodil, tulip, sunflower, and daisy flowers.
There are so many great flowers to use for this activity.
I like that this activity sparked my artsy side and helped me get back into drawing which I haven’t done in a long time.
While I was drawing, Riley decided to join me and started drawing her own flowers.
I love that she is interested in drawing and loves doing these activities.
Next, I decided to laminate my drawings so I could use them many times. This is optional.
Lastly, I taped the sheets of paper onto the floor so they wouldn’t slide around.
We have many different types of dice, so I decided to use foam dice which is quieter than plastic on hard floors.
You can use any dice you may have (you might even have some included in a board game).
Counting & Jumping Flower Activity
Riley threw the dice up in the air and when it landed she counted the dots.
Then she jumped on that flower.
After she jumped on the flower I would call out the name so she could learn it.
She loved tossing the dice up in the air and jumping on the flowers.
Sometimes she tried to roll the dice so it landed on a flower, hoping it would land on the flower with the same number as the dice.
At the end of the activity I asked her what her favorite flower was and she said all of them!
Multiple Ways To Extend This Activity
To add more counting to this activity, you can use two dice and number flowers 2 through 12.
You could even put addition or subtraction equations on the paper.
You can also find or draw the number of flowers on each piece of paper instead of writing the number on top (ex draw five flowers on a piece of paper with no numbers on it).
Another option is to label a different part of the flower on each piece of paper (ie stem, petal, leaf, root, pistil, stamen).
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