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

A plant 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 plant week

A day of the plant 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 seed need to grow?”, sing “lavender's blue”, then Meg and the Seed.
  3. Centers, with the craft at one table: bean in a cup.
  4. Letter G: trace it once, then hunt for G around the room.
  5. Snack: Chia Pudding, with children pouring and counting.
  6. Outside: grow like a seed.
  7. Rest, then a longer read-aloud: The Bean in the Cup.

Plant 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 seed need to grow?”
  4. Sing: Lavender's Blue.
  5. Read: Meg and the Seed (level 3).

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

Plant theme books

  • Meg and the Seed (level 3, free on peabody.kids): A seed that takes its time.
  • The Bean in the Cup (read aloud, level 5): A read-aloud: the very thing the room is doing this week.
  • The Enormous Turnip (read aloud, level 5): A read-aloud: a turnip so big everyone pulls.
  • At the Farm (level 3, free on peabody.kids): Where things grow, in a pattern book.

Plant craft: Bean in a cup

You need (5): a clear cup, cotton balls or soil, a dried bean (grown-up holds it), water, a name sticker.

  1. Put the wet cotton or soil in the cup.
  2. A grown-up pushes the bean in against the side so you can see it.
  3. Water a little each day and watch for the root.

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

Plant song: Lavender's Blue

The words

Lavender's blue, dilly dilly, lavender's green; When I am king, dilly dilly, you shall be queen.

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

Plant snack

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

Swap: Milk → oat milk.

Letter G activities

GgG is for grow. Print the two pages (a trace page and a color page).

Threes and fours: trace G and g once, then find G in the room and in the book.

Outside activity: Grow like a seed

Curl up small as a seed; rain falls, the sun shines, and everyone grows slowly up tall.

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Checked 2026-10-30