Plant Life Cycle Worksheet: Learn and Color!

How to use this worksheet

Look at all four life cycle pictures together first, describing what's happening in each one, like a seed in the dirt or a small green sprout. Ask your child which picture they think happens first and have them write the number 1 in its box. Continue this same discuss-and-number process for the remaining pictures until all four stages are in order. Once the sequence is numbered correctly, have your child color each picture, finishing with the fully grown flower.

Materials needed

• Pencil
• Crayons or colored pencils

Extension activities

• 1Plant a real seed together in a cup or garden bed and observe and record its growth over the following weeks.
• 2Draw the four life cycle stages on a large piece of paper and arrange them in a circle to show the cycle repeating.
• 3Read a picture book about how plants grow and pause to connect each page to a stage from the worksheet.
• 4Act out the plant life cycle physically, starting curled up as a seed and slowly 'growing' into a standing, blooming flower.
• 5Visit a garden, park, or nursery and try to spot plants at different stages of growth.