Spring is finally here, and that means it is time for one of my very favorite springtime themes in our preschool box...The Garden Box! Our Garden Box offers the perfect chance to spring into learning with some fun and educational play-based learning activities.
With this preschool box, you will have the opportunity for fun and educational garden crafts and activities to be delivered right to your door! Our no-prep activities, hands-on learning tools, and easy-to-use grown-up guides will bring the excitement of gardening and garden activities indoors.
This preschool box is jam-packed with easy and fun activities for your little gardener with all of the materials included!
My Pre-K Box's The Garden Box
A Peek Inside The Garden Box
Grow a Green Bean
In this simple and educational activity, you will soak the included green bean seeds in water. Next, you will invite your preschooler to write their name on the included scientific journal. Your little budding gardener/scientist will use this journal to track the progress of their germinating green bean!
As you are completing this activity take the time to allow your preschooler the opportunity to predict what they will see and observe/dissect their seed. They can also identify the different parts of the plant that they observe.
Finally, your preschooler will have the opportunity to watch their seed germinate. Simply take a paper towel and moisten it, and fold it to put in the bottom of the plastic bag.
Cut out the center of the included adorable sprout house and staple it to the bag.
Tape the sprout house to a window where the green bean will have access to plenty of sunlight.
Now observe!
Your preschooler will now be able to cross off days in their scientific journal as each day passes. As your preschooler observes new stages of growth, they will also have the chance to cut out the sequencing pictures and glue them onto the Observing My Beans Growth page in their scientific journal.
Your preschooler can also plant a seed in the included mini pot and soil to observe!
In this one single activity, your preschooler will be using a range of different skills. Including fine motor skills with handling the seed, writing their name, and assembling the parts, language skills when following directions, and math skills when sequencing, and counting the days!
Planting Patterns
This cute and simple garden-themed activity will allow your preschooler to practice their math and language skills all while having fun!
You will use the included Planting Patterns cards and the vegetable mini erasers. Your little preschooler will have a blast identifying the vegetables and deciding which comes next on the pattern. Using the tiny vegetable erasers also allows your little ones to practice their fine motor skills!
If your preschooler is just starting out you can use the pink Planting Patterns for simple AB patterning, and for those that are craving a challenge you can use the purple Planting Patterns. These cards hold more challenging patterns such as ABC, ABB, and AAB patterns.
Patterning is an important skill for Kindergarten readiness and helps your preschooler to develop the skills needed to complete more complex math equations as they get older.
Garden Bingo
Who doesn’t love bingo? In this cute game, you and your preschooler will use the included Garden BINGO game card and vegetable mini erasers to cover the spaces. You will take the Garden Box cards, shuffle them, and lay them face down on the table. As you draw a card, ask your preschooler to identify the picture, and then work together to identify the beginning sound of the picture on the card.
Example: Flower /f/-/f/-/f/ flower! Flower starts with F!
Next, you will see if your preschooler can identify the letter that makes that sound. If they do not know, feel free to identify it for them.
If you or your preschooler have the letter on your Garden BINGO game board, cover it with a vegetable mini eraser.
The first one to cover their card- WINS!
This fun garden-themed activity helps your preschooler to identify letters, and letter sounds dives into phonemic awareness, and even helps your little one practice additional skills such as taking turns, and fine motor!
Flower Shop
This amazing dramatic play game helps your preschooler practice skills they will need/use in the real world. Engaging in dramatic play enhances preschooler’s development. It enables your little ones to remain curious and to make sense of the world around them. It also gives your preschooler the tools they need to practice emotional skills such as self-regulation and gives your preschooler an emotional outlet to act out scenarios they may have seen or heard in their lives. Dramatic play is also an important part of learning conflict resolution, and expressive language.
In this dramatic play scenario, your preschooler gets to pretend to be either the customer or the florist either placing orders or reading the order forms and fulfilling the orders placed.
It can be fun to take turns in both roles and will allow your preschooler to practice several different skills including fine motor, pre-reading, and language development.
Spin It & Plant It
In this cute game, your preschooler will use the included Spin It & Plant It game mat, vegetable mini erasers & paperclip. The only thing you need to have available is a pencil!
Your preschooler will spin the spinner, and identify the number that it lands on. Next, they will have the chance to count the vegetable mini erasers and “plant” them in the pots on the game mat.
The Spin It & Plant It game mat actually makes up a ten frame which is an important part of your preschooler's educational journey.
Tens frames help your preschooler to develop number sense as they begin to see numbers in relation to groups of 5 and 10. Your preschooler will also use tens frames as they enter Kindergarten. Imagine how much easier Kindergarten year will be when your preschooler is able to identify tools used in the classroom as tools they have already been using at home!
Get to the Greenhouse Game
This game is another great way to practice your preschooler's math and language skills. The object of the game is to be the first to help the boy bring the plants to the greenhouse!
You and your preschooler will use the Get to the Greenhouse game board, Garden Box Game Cards, and two vegetable mini erasers for game pieces.
To complete a turn you will select a Garden Box Game Card, read the word on the card, and segment the word into syllables. Example cat-er-pil-lar
You will then clap your hands as you say each syllable.
Example cat-(clap)-er(clap)-pil(clap)-lar(clap).
Next, you or your preschooler will move your game piece one spot for each syllable identified!
Whoever makes it to the end of the game board first, wins!
This game is a perfect way to practice math and language skills all in one simple and fun educational game!
Paper Loop Flower Sign Craft
Preschoolers love crafts, and this craft doesn’t disappoint. Your preschooler will have plenty of fun, and an ample amount of fine motor practice in this one simple craft. Need more than one craft? Get duplicate crafts in your box for just $3.25 each!
Looking for even more crafts and fun?
If your preschooler loves arts and crafts, you'll want to subscribe to our Craft Lovers Upgrade which includes two additional crafts for just $4.25!
Flower Bouquet Craft Kit
In this bonus craft found in our Craft Lovers Upgrade, your preschooler can have even more fine motor practice (and fun)!
To complete this craft you will simply assemble the flowers by threading the pipe cleaners through the middle of the flower and securing it with a fun sticker on the front!
This craft also includes a fun ribbon to tie your whole bouquet together!
Jumbo Garden Sticker Scene
If there is anything preschoolers love more than crafts… it’s stickers, and this Jumbo Garden Sticker Scene offers just that!
With our Craft Lovers Upgrade, you will also receive a huge sticker sheet, and a jumbo scene to stick the stickers on! Your preschooler will have fun peeling and sticking the stickers and using their imagination to create the scene.
This fun upgrade to our preschool box offers plenty of fine motor practice as well as an opportunity to practice language skills and build their imagination!
If you like this peek into My Pre-K Box (pssst....these are just some of the many activities in The Garden Box!), be sure to sign up to receive our monthly thematic boxes and upgrade to the Craft Lovers Box before checkout!
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