Montessori Inspired Parts of a Flower Activities

For Mavi's midterm break, I am planning activities that both my 3-year-old and 8-year-old boys can participate in. One of the activities is to learn about flowers and their composition. Despite having done this activity before at the ages of 4 and 6, Mavi is still excited to do it again with his younger brother. This is a new challenge for me as I need to ensure that the activity is engaging for my younger son, while also conveying information to my older son. In the post, you can find out how I made the boys work together in the activities that I prepared for them.

DISSECTING THE FLOWERS

Let me tell you what happened! First, I showed everyone how to take apart a pretty tulip flower, making sure to name each part. Then, I gathered all the parts together in a tray and asked everyone to pick a flower and explore it on their own, taking it apart in their own unique way. It was so much fun!

                   

As you can see, each of them has a tray.   They wanted to use scissors, so I had to supervise them.  

I prefer tulips over lilies because they are easier to identify.

IDENTIFYING THE PARTS

We used the Parts of a Flower 3 Part Cards and Booklet to help us identify the different parts of a flower. Mavi took charge of the activity and taught his younger brother how to match the flower parts to the ones on the cards.

It was difficult to find books on flower parts, but the definition booklet I made was helpful. We are using the flower book from Usborne.

Because it was Vito’s first time doing the flower parts matching activity, I just made him use the Montessori flower puzzle instead.  We identified the parts of the flower as he placed each puzzle piece on the activity sheet.

When we worked on the lilies, Vito wanted to match the parts of the flower to those in the puzzle pieces. He gained some knowledge from our previous activity with Mavi, and then he became confident in doing the parts matching on his own this time.

                   

First, he matched the puzzle pieces, then I had him match them to our cards (both real objects and abstract).

I was impressed that he could identify the parts already!  Does he know the names? No, he can only name the petals.

Loved his work!  As you noticed, I only put out 4 flower parts for him to match with the flower puzzle. Introducing the entire parts of the flower to a 3-year-old is too advanced and overwhelming, so it is better to start things slowly.

Did you like how we worked on this? Tell me what you think, I’d like to hear your feedback in the comment section. The boys and I will most probably do this again once we get to the park.  It’ll be a spontaneous activity without the need to pluck the flowers or take apart their parts.  

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