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Plant theme for toddlers: a week of activities

A plant theme lesson plan for toddlers: what a day looks like, then the week's circle time (two or three minutes, on laps), books, craft, song, snack, letter and outside time, each with what changes at this age.

Plan this week for toddlersThe whole plant week

A day of the plant theme with toddlers

  1. Arrival and free play on the floor.
  2. Sing “Lavender's Blue” with actions; repeat it while you change and feed.
  3. Hold and pass something real for the week (seed), and say its name.
  4. Snack: a toddler-safe version of chia pudding (check the recipe's lines for under-4s).
  5. Outside: a short walk looking for soil.
  6. Read Meg and the Seed on laps, pointing and naming.
  7. Nap, then the song once more at pick-up.

Plant circle time

  1. Hello song: sing hello to each child by name.
  2. Look out of the window together: sun, rain or clouds?
  3. Show the theme: hold up something real and name it.
  4. Sing: Lavender's Blue.
  5. Read: Meg and the Seed (level 3).

Infants and toddlers: two or three minutes, on laps.

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.

Infants and toddlers: one book, read every day; point and name.

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.

Infants and toddlers: let them touch and hold the materials while you make it; nothing small enough to swallow.

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).

Infants and toddlers: skip the trace page; show the picture page and say the word.

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