Sunflower Life Cycle Worksheet: Learn and Fold!
This worksheet introduces the plant life cycle by walking children through the sequential stages a sunflower passes through — from seed, to sprout, to full bloom — using coloring, labeling, and folding. For four- to six-year-olds, understanding that living things grow through a fixed, ordered set of stages is a foundational science concept that also applies to animals, insects, and their own growth.
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Month 2: Learning & Development | Ages 6-7Curriculum
How to use this worksheet
Start by coloring the sunflower stages shown on the page, from seed to flower. Next, cut out the labeled words for each stage and match them to the correct photo, gluing each word beneath its matching picture. Then cut around the outer template as shown, and fold the page along the dotted lines to create a sequential flip-through of the life cycle. Once assembled, flip through the folded stages together, narrating the sunflower's growth from beginning to end.
Materials needed
- Pencil
- Crayons
- Scissors
- Glue (optional)
Extension activities
- •Plant a real sunflower seed in a cup or garden bed and observe and record its growth over several weeks.
- •Draw the life cycle of a different plant, like a bean or a tomato, using the same stage-by-stage structure.
- •Read a book about how plants grow and compare it to the worksheet's stages.
- •Take a weekly photo of a growing plant at home to build a real-life life cycle sequence.
- •Act out being a seed that grows into a sunflower, moving your body through each stage.
Tips for parents and teachers
Encourage children to discuss each stage of the life cycle and what they notice about how the sunflower changes, since narrating the process out loud helps the sequence stick better than looking at it silently. Help with cutting and folding as needed, since the template assembly can be fiddly for young hands.
Written by
Hemsweta Jain · Teacher Cheena
MBA and Early Childhood Educator, teaching since 2014 · Founder of RaisoActive, Mumbai
Every RaisoActive worksheet is designed and checked by the founder before publishing.
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