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Flower theme for 3 and 4 year olds: a week of activities

A flower theme lesson plan for 3 and 4 year olds: what a day looks like, then the week's circle time (ten to fifteen minutes, with a child holding the book), books, craft, song, snack, letter and outside time, each with what changes at this age.

Plan this week for 3 and 4 year oldsThe whole flower week

A day of the flower theme with 3 and 4 year olds

  1. Arrival, sign-in, and a job from the helper chart.
  2. Circle (ten to fifteen minutes): calendar, “What does a flower need to grow?”, sing “mary, mary, quite contrary”, then Meg and the Seed.
  3. Centers, with the craft at one table: cupcake-liner flower.
  4. Letter F: trace it once, then hunt for F around the room.
  5. Snack: Yogurt Parfait, with children pouring and counting.
  6. Outside: flower count.
  7. Rest, then a longer read-aloud: The Bean in the Cup.

Flower circle time

  1. Good morning song, then say each name together.
  2. Calendar: the day, the date and the weather.
  3. Ask: “What does a flower need to grow?”
  4. Sing: Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary.
  5. Read: Meg and the Seed (level 3).

Threes and fours: ten to fifteen minutes; let a child hold the book.

Flower theme books

  • Meg and the Seed (level 3, free on peabody.kids): From a seed to something growing.
  • The Red Hat (level 3, free on peabody.kids): Colors all around, for the color-and-petal talk.
  • The Bean in the Cup (read aloud, level 5): A read-aloud: a bean growing in a cup.

Flower craft: Cupcake-liner flower

You need (5): paper cupcake liners, green paper stem, card, glue stick, crayons.

  1. Glue the stem onto the card.
  2. Glue a liner on top as the flower.
  3. Draw the roots under the ground.

With a grown-up. No heat, nothing hot.

Flower song: Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary

The words

Mary, Mary, quite contrary, How does your garden grow? With silver bells and cockle shells, And pretty maids all in a row.

Traditional; public domain. From Top 52 nursery rhymes with lyrics.

Flower snack

Yogurt Parfait from the Peabody Kitchen: picture steps, allergy swaps and safety lines on the recipe.

Swap: Yogurt → oat yogurt.

Letter F activities

FfF is for flower. Print the two pages (a trace page and a color page).

Threes and fours: trace F and f once, then find F in the room and in the book.

Outside activity: Flower count

Walk and count the flowers you see. Smell one, look closely, and leave it growing.

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Checked 2026-10-30