Garden Flowers for Kids: Roses, Tulips, Daisies and Poppies

Seven favorite flowers: the rose, the tulip, the daisy, the poppy, the lily, the iris and the orchid. Some grow from bulbs, like tulips, lilies and irises, others from seeds, and each one blooms at its own time of year.

Orchid and tulip read normally across, lily and rose run upward, and daisy reads backwards.

Garden Flowers Vocabulary: 7 Words to Find

Words run across, up and down; 3 of the 7 read backwards. The longest word is Orchid, with 6 letters.

Daisy: A flower with a yellow center and white petals.
Iris: A flower with three upright and three drooping petals, named after the Greek goddess of the rainbow.
Lily: A tall flower that grows from a bulb, with large trumpet-shaped blooms.
Orchid: A flower with an unusual shape. The orchid family is one of the largest plant families.
Poppy: A red, orange or yellow flower with delicate, papery petals.
Rose: A thorny shrub with fragrant flowers, grown in thousands of varieties.
Tulip: A spring flower that grows from a bulb, famous in the Netherlands.

How to Solve the Garden Flowers Word Search

"Orchid" is the longest word and the only one with a C or an H. "Poppy" has a double P and runs straight down, like "iris". "Daisy" reads backwards, so look for YSIAD.

Spring Flower Activities for Kids

Plant a bulb or a seed and watch it grow.
Visit a garden and find as many flowers from the list as you can.
Draw your favorite flower and label its petals and stem.