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Are you putting together a Sunflower Unit Study this fall? Here is a FREE sunflower template for you to include in your lesson plan 🙂
Do you garden? I just started my garden five years ago. Each year I try to expand it a little more. When I first started, all I had was one teeny, tiny 4×4 box! My older kids were little then and gosh, did they enjoy it! Apparently, so did I…because now I have FIVE 4×8 boxes plus a 10×30 garden next to it, several greenstalks, and a front garden that is 10×20!
And this year I successfully added in SUNFLOWERS!!
I was so excited to see these beauties bloom! I had planted them last year for the first time, but unfortunately my husband mistook them for weeds and well, that weed whacker got to them before I could.
Needless to say, this spring I made sure to put a marker next to each sunflower plant so that wouldn’t happen again!
I grew several mammoth sunflowers in the back garden and these sweet little ones in our front yard. I’m hooked. Next year I’ll definitely be planting more!
Since I have quite a few sunflowers handy, I thought it would be fun to talk about sunflowers this fall and do a little unit study on them. This template is one of the first things I made for it (this was for our preschool co-op class).
If you would like this free printable, keep scrolling to the bottom of this page and find the “download now” button!
Easy Sunflower Art Project
This printable is a simple one. Just print it out on cardstock and start painting!
Or use markers like my youngest wanted to 🙂
Or use a glue stick and crepe paper like my middle child preferred!
I love all the different ways you can use this template. You could also cut these out and attach them to large popsicle sticks too. Or punch a hole in a flower, run a string through it, and hang it up as a fall decoration 🙂
Materials Needed:
- Cardstock (or heavy printer paper)
- Your favorite paint
- Paintbrush
- Cup of water
- Paper towel or something to dry off your brush
If you are painting this, just be sure to print the template out onto cardstock or some sort of heavier printer paper.
Going the glue and crepe paper route? Just make sure to have some glue handy and cut out your crepe/tissue paper beforehand into small squares. You will want your student to crumple up each square individually and glue them on one at a time. My son chose orange and yellow streamers and create a pattern with the petals.
*Make sure that they only crumple and glue one piece on at a time! If they use too many pieces of paper squished together at once, it won’t stick well to the paper or hold the crumpled look.
I hope you and your students enjoy doing this simple, but sweet project! Please feel free to leave a photo in the comments – I’d love to see how these turned out!
