Flower Match

5/10/2016

I went to a couple of garden centers this weekend and there were some really beautiful flowers there. I decided to take pictures and make a flower matching activity that we used for visual discrimination skills and fine motor development.

I printed out two copies on cardstock paper ... cut them out and laminated them. I then set them out in a basket along with clothespins. The children found the the cards with the same pictures and clipped them together with the clothespins.

You can grab the flower match patterns here.

10 Comments

Michelle

5/10/2016 09:21:31 am

Wow those are some pretty flowers! This is a great activity for an introduction to our gardening theme. Thank you!!

Shelley

5/11/2016 06:00:01 pm

Thank you so much Michelle!! I start my flower theme next week!!

Stacey

5/10/2016 09:22:54 am

Thank you Shelley. These are awesome. I live Texas and most of my flowers are dead and dried up already. What a great idea to make these!!

Shelley

5/11/2016 06:07:08 pm

Sorry to hear about you flowers Stacey. We just had a frost warning and I think the flowers in the shops will be damaged giving us less to choose from.

Melody

5/10/2016 09:45:04 am

Hi Shelley,
I tried to download your lovely flowers, but the server isn't recognizing your page. Is there something special I should be doing?
Thanks for all of your wonderful ideas!

Shelley

5/10/2016 09:51:38 am

Hi ... it seems to be working. Please refresh your page and try again. Let me know if you are still having difficulties.

Betsy Wohltman

5/11/2016 06:11:39 am

I will have to learn the named of a few of these flowers. The photos are so bright and vivid. Students and grandchildren will love playing "Memory" with these when I print them on glossy photo paper and cut them into squares. So beautifulď

Shelley

5/11/2016 06:08:28 pm

Hi Betsy ... I haven't tried glossy photo paper yet. What is the thickness of it compared to index paper?

Von

5/11/2016 12:35:53 pm

Oh, I really, really do like these! I would like to know the names of the flowers though so I could use them with an older child as a matching exercise. If you could put the names here in the same order as the pictures in the PDF, that would be sufficient. Thanks so much

Shelley

5/11/2016 06:09:53 pm

Hi Von!! I'm sorry I did not take the time to write the flower names down when I was in garden centers. That's a great idea to match the flower names to the photos!!