Trees: Learning Experiences

Sample Tree Activities + Resources

• Tree Education Hub from The Arbor Day Foundation 
• Forestry/Natural Resources Lesson Plans (K-5)
• Arbor Day Preschool Activities: Learning About Trees
• ​TREE-MENDOUS TREES
• Tree Activities for Kids​
• 20 Engaging Tree Activities for Preschool
• MONTESSORI-INSPIRED TREE ACTIVITIES​
• Trees Games​
• Forest Theme
• 28 Exciting Tree Activities for Preschoolers
• Plant the Trees Sensory Bin 
• BrainPop Videos on Plant Life Cycle, Tree Growth, Seed Plants, and Photosynthesis. My sons love BrainPop videos and games 
• What Makes a Tree a Tree?
• Pine Tree Science Activities For Kids​
• Grow your own newspaper tree.
• Four Season Tree Craft.
• How to make a simple paper tree.
• Soil erosion experiment
• Drawing Bark: Learn how to draw bark! Click HERE for the video.
• Fruit Tasting Activity
• Leaf Album: Collect leaves on a hike and when you get home, press them to preserve them. You’ll need to put them flat, between two pieces of wax paper, put it inside a book and carefully close it. Pile a few heavy books on top and then don’t touch it for two weeks. After the two weeks are up, retrieve your leaf and it should be dry and flat. Place it in your album with the name and where you found it.
• Leaf Rubbings: Lay a leaf on a flat surface and place a piece of paper on top. Rub a crayon longways (peel paper off first) over the leaf. You’ll see the shape of the leaf start to appear.
• Water Moving Through Leaves Experiment: Cut three leaves (with a little of their twigs still attached) and place in three different cups. Fill each cup halfway with water and food coloring. Watch each day to see the water traveling up the stalk and into the leaf. Which leaf does this the fastest?
• Leaf Transpiration Experiment.
• 13 Low-Prep Tree Study Activities for Kids​
• HOW TO CREATE A COMPLETE NATURE STUDY ABOUT TREES​