The life cycle of a strawberry is a fascinating process that begins with the pollination of flowers and ends with the harvesting of ripe fruit.

Each step in between is important for the healthy growth and development of the strawberry. This worksheet will help students take a closer look at the life cycle of a strawberry.

It can be difficult to teach sequencing to young students, but with the right tools and strategies, it can be a fun and engaging learning experience.

Adding this sequencing worksheet to your science plans is a great way to have kids review how strawberries grow.

Strawberry Life Cycle

Teaching the life cycles of living things is an important part of any preschool, kindergarten, and early elementary science curriculum.

Life cycles are a great way to help students learn about the world around them. By understanding how living things grow and change, they can better understand the process of life.

Preparing the Worksheet

This one-page printable requires no advanced preparation. Just print and go! If your kids don’t enjoy coloring, you can print this activity on colored printer paper.

You can also make this a reusable activity by printing it on cardstock and laminating it for durability. Cut out the sequencing cards at the bottom of the page.

Add a velcro dot to the backside of each sequencing card and in each empty box on the worksheet. Then, the kids can sequence the life cycle of a strawberry over and over again.

What Skills Are Covered?

I love when one simple activity covers so many skills! This worksheet does just that! But, what skills does it cover?

• Science: Children will learn how strawberries grow from seed to fruit. They’ll learn new vocabulary words associated with how plants grow – seed, fruit, stem, sprout, roots, etc.

• Logic: Sequencing events is a great logic-building activity. Kids learn to put things in the order that they happen. This skill helps them make sense of the world around them.

• Motor Skills: Cutting with scissors helps kids strengthen the small muscles in their fingers, hands, and wrists.

• Hand-Eye Coordination: Gluing the sequencing cards in order (or lining them up with the velcro dots) helps strengthen hand-eye coordination. Kids will have to align the sequencing cards on the mat straight so that they all fit properly.

Strawberry Books for Kids

Fill your book basket with a great collection of books about strawberries. Most of these books can be found at your local library or used bookstore.

If you have a hard time finding them, you can order them through my Amazon affiliate links by clicking the images below.

National Geographic Readers: Plants – Adult and child readers will learn all about plants together. Find out how plants grow as well as the different parts of plants, seeds, and flowers.

Evie and the Strawberry Patch Rescue – When Evie’s strawberry patch is flooded she needs to find somewhere for her strawberry plants to live – the flower fairies’ backyard is too crowded, the pond is too swampy and the woods are too dark.

With the help of her friends, Evie moves her plants to their new home on the little hill, but they still won’t grow. What has Evie forgotten?

The Little Mouse, the Red Ripe Strawberry, and the Big Hungry Bear – Little Mouse loves strawberries, but so does the big hungry bear. . .

How will Little Mouse stop the bear from eating his freshly picked, red ripe strawberry?

More Life Cycle Worksheets

If your kids enjoyed this strawberry life cycle worksheet, be sure to check out these printables and activities. Pick and choose a few to add to your upcoming science plans.

• Frog Life Cycle Worksheet Cut and Paste
• Life Cycle of a Butterfly Craft
• Rabbit Life Cycle Worksheets

ENHANCE YOUR ACTIVITY TIME

Add some felt strawberries to your pretend play area for hours of imaginative play.

This felt strawberry puzzle is a great way to help little ones strengthen fine motor and logical reasoning skills.

Kids can grow their own strawberries, and observe the parts of a strawberry plant up close and personal.

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Kids can learn so much as they complete a word search. They can work on vocabulary, problem solving, and concentration skills.

In addition to improving skills, words searches are also just plain fun!

Teachers can use word searches to break up longer lessons, as a review, or as a fun, quiet-time activity.

By incorporating word searches into your homeschool lessons, you can make learning more fun for students and help them achieve academic success.

Strawberry Printable

This simple word search contains twelve strawberry-related vocabulary words for your kids to find in the grid.

How to Prepare the Worksheets

This worksheet requires no preparation. Just print it out, provide your child with a writing utensil, and you’re all set!

If you’d like to make this activity reusable, you can laminate it. Then, have children complete the word search with a dry erase marker. They can wipe it clean and complete it over and over again.

This pack includes an answer key so you or your child can check their work.

More Strawberry Printables

A strawberry plant diagram is a useful tool for teaching the parts of a strawberry plant. It’s a great resources for helping students understand how strawberries grow and function.

Are you looking for a fun resource to teach pre-primer sight words to your preschool and kindergarten students? This hands-on beginning sight words sorting activity is just what you need!

Practice counting from one to ten with these printable strawberry count and clip math cards.

More Free Word Searches

• Presidents Word Search

• Australia Word Search

• Bat Word Search

• 4th of July Word Search

• Share Word Search

Books About Strawberries

Fill your book basket with a great collection of books about strawberries. Most of these books can be found at your local library or used bookstore.

If you have a hard time finding them, you can order them through my Amazon affiliate links by clicking the images below.

The First Strawberries – Long ago, the first man and woman quarrelled. The woman left in anger, but the Sun sent tempting berries to Earth to slow the wife’s retreat.

Watch a Strawberry Grow – Vibrant, full-color photos and carefully leveled text will engage young readers as they learn about how this delicious berry is grown and harvested.

The Red Ripe Strawberry and the Big Hungry Bear – Little Mouse loves strawberries, but so does the big hungry bear. . . How will Little Mouse stop the bear from eating his freshly picked, red ripe strawberry?

Enhance Your Activity Time

Add some felt strawberries to your pretend play area for hours of imaginative play.

This felt strawberry puzzle is a great way to help little ones strengthen fine motor and logical reasoning skills.

Kids can grow their own strawberries, and observe the parts of a strawberry plant up close and personal.

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Below, we’ll learn the parts of a strawberry plant, from the roots to the leaves. Understanding how a strawberry plant works can help kids care for strawberry plants of their own.

Kids will enjoy learning about where their food comes from by tracing the path from the soil to their plate.

These free printables help little ones learn the parts of a strawberry plant. As your kids cut and paste the labels on the diagram, they’ll build their vocabulary while strengthening fine motor skills.

Strawberry Printable

In this set of science worksheets, you’ll find a teaching chart to use as a model as well as two pages your kids can complete as an assessment of what they’ve learned.

There is a color and a black/white version of the cut and paste page. Choose whichever fits your needs.

How to Prepare the Worksheets

The printables require no preparation. Just print them out, provide your child with scissors and glue, and you’re all set!

I like to print the strawberry plant diagram on cardstock, and I laminate it for durability. It can be hung in your learning space for your kids to reference throughout your unit.

Using the Printables

To begin your lesson about strawberries, you should read a nonfiction book about strawberries and how they grow. Watch a Strawberry Grow is great for young children. The real pictures and short informative text helps kids understand how the plants grow.

After reading the book, share the strawberry plant diagram with your kids. Help them learn the vocabulary associated with a strawberry plant.

Test their knowledge by naming a part and having your child point to it on the diagram. Help them become familiar with the written name of each part, as well, so they can complete the labeling page on their own.

Strawberry Activities

If your kids enjoyed this strawberry cut and paste worksheet, your kids may enjoy one or more of the activities featured below.

You can add these activities to your life cycle of a strawberry unit study and/or lesson plans.

• Here’s a fun life cycle of a strawberry placemat that will help your children identify and describe how strawberries grow. 

• Add these strawberry math worksheets to your summer preschool lessons for a fun way to practice numbers to ten.

• Summer is the best time of year to study strawberries. This strawberry life cycle bundle features 21 hands-on activities!

Books About Strawberries

Fill your book basket with a great collection of books about strawberries. Most of these books can be found at your local library or used bookstore.

If you have a hard time finding them, you can order them through my Amazon affiliate links by clicking the images below.

The First Strawberries – Long ago, the first man and woman quarrelled. The woman left in anger, but the Sun sent tempting berries to Earth to slow the wife’s retreat.

Watch a Strawberry Grow – Vibrant, full-color photos and carefully leveled text will engage young readers as they learn about how this delicious berry is grown and harvested.

The Red Ripe Strawberry and the Big Hungry Bear – Little Mouse loves strawberries, but so does the big hungry bear. . . How will Little Mouse stop the bear from eating his freshly picked, red ripe strawberry?

Enhance Your Activity Time

Add some felt strawberries to your pretend play area for hours of imaginative play.

This felt strawberry puzzle is a great way to help little ones strengthen fine motor and logical reasoning skills.

Kids can grow their own strawberries, and observe the parts of a strawberry plant up close and personal.

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Kids love learning about how things grow, and these life cycle activities will help them see how strawberries grow from a seed to a mature fruit.

Strawberries are a perfect summer fruit. Did you know that strawberries have the shortest life cycle of any berry? They only take about six weeks from planting to harvesting!

Follow along to learn more about the strawberry’s life cycle, and how you can teach it to your students.

Life Cycle of a Strawberry

There are four stages of the life cycle of a strawberry. Using the activities below, you can introduce your children to all four stages.

When you’re done, they’ll have a good grasp on life cycles that they’ll be able to apply to other types of plants.

Stage One: Seeds

The seeds of a strawberry plant are unique. Strawberries are the only fruit that have their seeds on the outside.

The average strawberry has about 200 seeds! Can your student count to 200?

Strawberries can be planted in late spring through the fall. With the proper amount of sunlight and water, the plants should begin to grow in just a few weeks.

Plant some strawberry seeds with your kids, and let them experience the life cycle first hand.

Stage Two: Seedling/Sprout

After a few weeks, the seeds will begin to sprout. Your children will begin to see tiny sprouts growing out of the soil.

These sprouts need plenty of water and sunshine to grow. If you planted strawberries, have your children sketch their plant at this stage.

Stage Three: Mature Plant

As the strawberry plant continues to grow, flower buds will emerge. The flowers of the strawberry plant are pollinated by bees and other pollinators.

Once the flowers are pollinated, fruit begins to form. Again, if you planted strawberries with your children, have them sketch the flower.

Stage 4: Fruit

Finally, strawberries begin to grow. They begin as small green berries. As they ripen, they get bigger and change from green to white to red.

Kids can watch the transformation from flower to berry in this video.

Life Cycle of a Strawberry Placemat

Print this free printable on cardstock for durability. If you’d like to make it reusable, laminate it.

Take some time to review the four stages of the life cycle of a strawberry plant.

Now, kids can enjoy a wide variety of life cycle activities including a word scramble, a word search, a maze, and more.

What does this activity teach?

• Number order: Children connect the dots from 1-11 to form a strawberry.

• Sequencing the life cycle of a strawberry

• Spelling and logical reasoning: Children unscramble words related to the life cycle and spell them correctly on the lines.

• Visual discrimination: Children will search among the grid to find words related to the life cycle of a strawberry.

• Logical reasoning and motor skills: Complete the maze drawing a line from beginning to end.

BOOKS ABOUT STRAWBERRIES

Fill your book basket with a great collection of books about strawberries. Most of these books can be found at your local library or used bookstore.

If you have a hard time finding them, you can order them through my Amazon affiliate links by clicking the images below.

Teaching Resources

Add some felt strawberries to your pretend kitchen or pretend play area to inspire hours of imaginative play.

Kids can strengthen fine motor skills with this fun strawberry lacing card made from sturdy felt.

Summer is the best time of year to study strawberries. This strawberry life cycle bundle features 21 hands-on activities!

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