FREE Flower Height Measurement Printable for Preschoolers

Printable flower preschool math activities offer a sweet and fun way to engage young learners in preschool math activities help young learners build counting, sorting, and number skills. Imagine your preschoolers measuring the heights of vibrant, colorful flowers using everyday items like beans, buttons, or unifix cubes.

This flower measurement printable not only makes practice enjoyable but also brings a touch of spring into your classroom. It’s a wonderful addition to your math centers or spring preschool lesson plans during the spring season.

A hands on flower themed measurement printable for preschoolers. This is fantastic for math centers or small group work in the Spring for preschoolers.

Springtime brings a burst of color and new growth, making it the perfect backdrop for introducing measurement concepts to preschoolers using flower themes printables. With our printable flower preschool math activities, you can seamlessly blend the beauty of blooming flowers with foundational math skills.

The free flower height measurement printable features a series of flower images, each varying in height. Children are invited to measure these flowers using non-standard units such as dried beans, buttons, or unifix cubes. This activity not only reinforces counting and comparison skills but also improves fine motor development as children handle small manipulatives. This is an easy way to make yoru spring preschool math activities both meaningful and seasonally relevant.

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What Kids Learn with This Activity

This printable helps kids understand measurement concepts while developing key early math and cognitive skills.

Measurement Skills

Preschoolers will practice comparing sizes and ordering objects from shortest to tallest. This builds a strong foundation for future math learning. Try using real objects, like blocks or craft sticks, to extend the activity!

Visual Discrimination

Children will sharpen their ability to notice differences in size, a crucial skill for reading and math. Encourage them to describe the flowers using words like “tallest” and “shortest.”

Flower Theme Preschool Math Printable

This activity is a simple yet engaging way to teach measurement. Kids will love comparing the flowers and arranging them by height!

What’s Included

The spring flowers measurement printable includes:

A set of flower measurement cards in different heights
Bright, colorful designs for easy visual comparison
A printable format that’s easy to prepare and use

Additional Materials

You might also need:

Scissors
Laminator (optional)
Measuring tools (Dried Beans , Buttons, Unifix Cubes)

The Set-Up

Print out the measurement cards and cut apart. Laminate for added durability. Set into piles and set out some non-standard measurement tools.

The Measurement Activity for Preschoolers

Each flower card has a flower in a pot but they all are slightly different heights.

Place a card in front of the child, it doesn’t matter which card you start with.

The child will take the manipulative, and place one on the bottom, next to the bottom of the flower pot. Follow along the line, one on top of each other until they have met the height of the flower.

Next, we count how many manipulatives it took to fill the line. This is fantastic for strengthening one on one correspondence counting skills in your preschoolers, and they get tons of extra fine motor practice, too!

We like to do multiple cards and compare the number of manipulatives it took to fill the line. With the same concept, if you do multiple cards you can put them in height order from tallest to shortest. If working in a small group, this is a fantastic way to encourage teamwork! There’s lots of “math talk” that will happen if you invite your preschoolers to work together on sequencing the heights.

You can also ask children to compare to their own hand or the hands of their friends. Comparing is another skill in the measurement domain.

This is an excellent activity for both math centers or small group activities. If you have started teaching graphing, you can even make an impromptu graph of flower heights and colors.

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Modifications for using Printable Flower Preschool Math Activities

Here are some ways to modify this activity to meet the needs of all the students in your classroom.

Get creative with the manipulatives you use. You can try flower shaped pony beads snap cubes, wooden flower buttons, or even these natural floral pebbles.
If you have young preschoolers, start by offering only a few cards at a time, and use larger manipulatives that are easier to handle, like unifix cubes.
If you have older preschoolers, try offering a basic ruler and introduce your preschooler to the numbers on the ruler to use as measurement.
Add a weight component by comparing the “weight” of each flower height by adding them to a balance scale. (By the way, have you seen my counting bears task cards for the balance scale?)
Prep some silk flowers from the dollar store to match the height of the printable flowers and have your preschooler find the matching silk flower.

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Grab Your FREE Flower Measurement Printable for Preschoolers

Think this is something you could use in your spring theme, flower theme, or garden theme? Hey, it would even be fun for Mother’s Day! Grab your copy below by clicking on the image.

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FAQ About Using Spring Flower Math Printables

What age group is this activity best for?

This activity is designed for preschoolers, typically ages 3-5. However, younger kindergarteners can also benefit from it, especially if they need extra practice with measurement concepts. The simple visuals and hands-on approach make it engaging for young learners at different developmental stages.

How does this help with early math skills?

This printable teaches key early math concepts such as measurement, comparison, and ordering. By arranging flowers by height, children develop an understanding of size differences, an important foundation for later math skills like graphing and data analysis. It also helps with vocabulary development, as children learn to use words like “shorter,” “taller,” and “same height” while describing their observations.

Do I need special materials?

No special materials are required! You just need to print the flower measurement cards and cut them out. If you want to make them last longer, laminating is a good option. To extend the activity, you can also provide measuring tools like rulers, unifix cubes, or paperclips, but they are not necessary to complete the activity.

How can I make this more challenging?

To make the activity more challenging, introduce a ruler or a measuring tape and encourage children to measure each flower in inches or centimeters. You can also have them estimate the height of each flower before measuring and compare their predictions to the actual measurements. Another way to add difficulty is by asking children to sort the flowers into categories, such as “short,” “medium,” and “tall,” and then create a simple bar graph to represent their findings.

This activity is flexible and can be adapted for different skill levels, making it a valuable addition to any preschool math lesson.

Sarah Punkoney, MAT

I’m Sarah, an educator turned stay-at-home-mama of five! I’m the owner and creator of Stay At Home Educator, a website about intentional teaching and purposeful learning in the early childhood years. I’ve taught a range of levels, from preschool to college and a little bit of everything in between. Right now my focus is teaching my children and running a preschool from my home. Credentials include: Bachelors in Art, Masters in Curriculum and Instruction.

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