No matter what growing season you’re in, these plant life cycle books for kids are a great way to teach kids how plants grow from seed to adult.
Be sure to add these life cycle books to your preschool book collections. These nonfiction selections are perfect for your science shelves. Pull them out when you are teaching about plants, farms, pumpkins, apples, and more!
Plant Life Cycle Books
Below, I’ve featured just a handful of plant life cycle books that will help your preschoolers learn about how plants grow.
You should be able to find them at your local library or bookstore. If you can’t find them locally, you can click each image cover to purchase them on Amazon.
The Amazing Life Cycle of Plants
How do plants grow? Explore the journey from seed to sapling and beyond.
This book introduces young investigative readers to many types of unusual and typical plants from photosynthesis, how they grow, and ways they survive in extreme environments.
Guaranteed to be a favorite among your child’s collection of picture books, take a fun, entertaining, educational, and wonderfully illustrated trip into an apple orchard where an old apple tree resides.
This book features illustrations, photographs and easy-to-read text that help young readers learn: how seeds are formed and what different types of seeds look like; the various ways flowers are pollinated; and more.
With simple language and bright illustrations, non-fiction master Gail Gibbons introduces young readers to the processes of pollination, seed formation, and germination.
Beans are nourishing vegetables and are good to eat. They also contain seeds that will grow into new bean plants. Take a close look at a bean’s full cycle of growth and development.
In this book, readers learn how this towering plant starts out life-as a small black seed. They also learn about the different parts of the plant and how they all work together to help it grow and thrive.
Which of these plant life cycle will you read first?
Round Out Your Unit with These Activities
I love this Life Cycle Board! This graphic organizer is an awesome visual tool to help children sequence the Life Cycle of plants and animals. The circular shape of the board and the arrows are designed to help children understand Circle of Life and grasp the concept of “Cycle”.
Your preschoolers will love learning about the life cycle of the green bean plant and building their language skills with this set of 3-part cards featuring watercolour images of each of seed, germination, seedling and plant created specifically to match with the optional matching objects from Safari Ltd.
Tara is the brains behind Homeschool Preschool, where her journey from preschool and public school teacher to homeschooling mom of three fuels her passion for early childhood education. With a blend of expertise and firsthand experience, Tara’s writings offer practical tips and engaging resources to support families in creating meaningful learning adventures at home.
