Lesson Plan: Wildflower Activity Cards

Spark a love of nature with this set of three wildflower-inspired EYFS activities, designed to introduce young learners to pollinators, plants, and how seeds grow.

These hands-on educational activities, designed for children up-to the age of five, invite little ones to explore how pollinators help our natural world thrive, while discovering seeds that grow into vibrant wildflowers.

The resource includes three engaging activity cards – Playful Pollinators, Super Sowers and Seed Sorters – which can be used individually or as a fun learning carousel.

Two children looking at leaves with magnifying glass

What the learning covers

Playful Pollinators

How and why bees, and other pollinators, move pollen from one flower to another
Why bees and other insect pollinators are so important
How they can help pollinators, by moving pollen from flower to flower, around their setting

Super Sowers

Why bees and other insect pollinators are so important
How they can help pollinators, by sowing seeds, around their setting

Seed Sorters

That seeds come in different sizes, colours and shapes
That seeds grow into beautiful wildflowers

Activity details

Overview and curriculum links

Each activity card starts with a 'story spark' to engage your learners with the topic. After listening to the story, children are invited to play through the use of an over-arching question for the activity. Each activity card also contains a resource list, a set of instructions, development opportunities and some useful question prompts to support practitioners in their delivery.

We have designed these activities to help practitioners cover the following areas of the EYFS Statutory Framework:

Playful Pollinators

Expressive arts and design – creating with materials:

Safely use and explore a variety of materials, tools and techniques, experimenting with colour, design, texture, form and function
Make use of props and materials when role playing characters in narratives and stories

Understanding the world – the natural world:

Explore the natural world around them, making observations
Understand some important processes and changes in the natural world around them

Super Sowers

Expressive arts and design – creating with materials:

Safely use and explore a variety of materials, tools and techniques, experimenting with colour, design, texture, form and function
Share their creations, explaining the process they have used

Understanding the world – the natural world:

Explore the natural world around them, making observations
Know some similarities and differences between the natural world around them and contrasting environments, drawing on their experiences and what has been read in class
Understand some important processes and changes in the natural world around them

Seed Sorters

Communication and language – speaking:

Participate in small group, class and one-to-one discussions, offering their own ideas, using recently introduced vocabulary
Offer explanations for why things might happen, making use of recently introduced vocabulary from stories, non-fiction, rhymes and poems when appropriate

Physical development – fine motor skills

Use a range of small tools, including scissors, paint brushes and cutlery

Understanding the world – the natural world:

Explore the natural world around them, making observations and drawing pictures of animals and plants
Understand some important processes and changes in the natural world around them