The vast array of hues found in flowers offers a brilliant chance to teach preschoolers about color. If the school has a flower garden, take the group outside first so that they can see all of the plants. Red roses, yellow tulips and white daisies along with green leaves, brown tree trunks and little black ants are some of the inspirations you might find in a garden. Back in the classroom, give the children worksheets that have outlines of different plants and flowers with the names of the appropriate colors written next to each part. For example, an outline of a tree would have the word "brown" next to the trunk and "green" next to the leaves. Read the words together, then name a color and have the children point to the part of the plant that has that color. To finish the activity, have the children color the pictures using the correct colors.
When teaching preschoolers their ABCs, you can use plants and gardening tools to help them learn letters ("D" for daisy, "H" for hoe, "S" for seed, for example). To combine both reading and writing in this activity, next to an outlined image, the word for that image should be printed so that the children can see all of the letters that make up the word. On the bottom of the page, a line of uppercase letters and a line of lowercase letters are written using dotted lines rather than solid lines (except for the very first example of both lower- and uppercase). Students are then to trace over the dotted outline of each letter so that they learn how to properly form the letters of the alphabet.
As the preschoolers become more accustomed to reading and writing, you can combine the two skills in slightly more difficult activities. Next to the outline of a flower, write the names of the different parts (petal, stem, leaf, roots) in the appropriate place using dotted lines. At the side of the paper, write the names again using solid lines but in a mixed-up order. Have the students read the words, draw a line between the matching words and then trace over the dotted words. As always, the activity is completed by allowing the children to color the pictures.