Plant Life Cycle Wheel: Cut, Pin & Learn!

How to use this worksheet

Have your child cut out both circles along their outer edges, offering help with the curved cutting if needed. Show them how to place the smaller top circle over the larger bottom circle, aligning the small window cutout with the pictures underneath. Help your child push a paper fastener or brad through the center point of both circles to join them securely. Once assembled, let your child rotate the top circle slowly, describing each stage of the plant life cycle as it appears in the window.

Materials needed

• Scissors
• Pin or brad
• Pencil (optional)

Extension activities

• 1Plant a real seed in a cup and check on it regularly, comparing its stages to the wheel.
• 2Draw your own simple plant life cycle as a straight sequence of pictures rather than a wheel.
• 3Act out the plant life cycle as a movement game — curl up small as a seed, then slowly 'grow' into a tall flower.
• 4Read a picture book about how plants grow from seed to flower.
• 5Make a second life-cycle wheel for a different plant, like a sunflower or an apple tree, and compare the stages.