I have some facts about the life cycle of a strawberry and how to make a felt hand sewn strawberry. And you’ll love my Strawberry Unit Study page.
This is a great activity not only to use while learning about the life cycle of a strawberry plant but also to work in a simple handiwork skill.
I have simplified this so even if you are not a sewer yourself it is easy for you and your child to learn together.
The life cycle of a strawberry plant starts with seeds and germination.
Then the plants are produced and mature.
Next comes flowering, fruiting, and finally dormancy before it starts all over again in the new season.
Even if you can’t grow them on your own there are a lot of great easy to learn about strawberries and their life cycle.
Resources to Learn The Life Cycle of a Strawberry
Use these great Strawberry Notebooking Pages for Language Arts
Enjoy a fun Strawberry Unit Study.
Plant your own strawberries from seed.
There is a great illustration of the life cycle of a strawberry plant in Nature Anatomy among all the other wonderful nature study info it contains.
Taste strawberries and other berries to compare.
Ask your child to describe it with all their senses, what does it smell like, taste like, look like?
Try strawberries in other forms as well like jams or jellies, in salad dressings, etc.
Slice a strawberry in half and encourage your child to examine it, where are the seeds located? How does the center look different?
Extract Strawberry DNA for another fun hands-on science activity.
Watch this video to see a strawberry go from flower to fruit.
Also, look at some strawberry life cycle facts.
6 Facts about The Life Cycle of a Strawberry
- You can harvest the seeds from strawberries by pulling them off individually with tweezers and laying them on a paper towel to dry completely. Store in a labeled envelope or baggie.
- Planted from seed, strawberries take around 110 days from sprouting until they start to flower.
- The ever-bearing types of strawberries will produce two crops, one in early summer and the second in the early fall.
- Strawberries have the shortest life cycle of any of the berries, taking just 60-90 days.
- The average strawberry has about 200 seeds on it.
- Strawberry plants can return year after year for about 5 to 6 years, but the berry harvest begins to decrease after 2 or 3 years.
Too, grab some of these fun resources for your strawberry unit study.
More Strawberry Resources
11 Strawberry Unit Study Resources & Books
Add one or two of these strawberry unit study resources to make your fun spring unit study come to life.
Big pack: 1000+ Non-GMO red strawberry seeds by Monique939-002..
Interesting: Whether they are spotted in your yard or as part of a tasty treat, strawberries are sure to spark attention! Liven up a fruit salad, muesli or trifle.
How does a tiny seed grow into a sweet, juicy strawberry? Follow each step in the cycle from planting seeds to eating yummy strawberries in this fascinating book!
Strawberries—big, ripe, and juicy. Ten-year-old Birdie Boyer can hardly wait to start picking them. But her family has just moved to the Florida backwoods, and they haven't even begun their planting. "Don't count your biddies 'fore they're hatched, gal young un!" her father tells her.
How fun.. What an adorable gift or to use in your school area.
Your child will quickly fall in love with this Strawberry Shortcake pillow and be excited to jump into bed. Great for playtime, naptime, or bedtime this will make the perfect gift for your loved one.
One penny.
In the hot, mean summer of 1933, a penny is enough to buy caramels or red hots or peppermint sticks or licorice strings. Is it enough to buy Miss Elsie's Strawberry Farm?
There's only one way to find out. Davey takes a deep breath and shouts, "One penny for trawberry Farm!"
Set during the Great Depression, and illustrated by Caldecott Honor artist Rachel Isadora, Saving Strawberry Farm brings Davey's Midwestern town to life as friends and neighbors plan to
save the farm the only way they can -- with a secret penny auction!
Delight your Strawberry Shortcake fan with this Strawberry Shortcake Giant Coloring Book Bundle with 144 coloring pages and 50 stickers.
This giant Strawberry Shortcake sticker activity book set features Strawberry Shortcake and her friends.
Includes two premium Strawberry Shortcake coloring books filled with coloring activities and games. Includes 50 stickers!
Adult and child readers will learn all about plants together in this new Co-reader from National Geographic Kids. Find out how plants grow as well as the different parts of plants, seeds, and flowers.
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?
This classic story is beloved for its humor, expressive illustrations, and surprise ending—pure read-aloud fun!
In Watch a Strawberry Grow, early fluent readers learn how strawberries 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. An infographic illustrates the life cycle of a strawberry. Children can learn more about how strawberries grow using our safe search engine that provides relevant, age-appropriate websites
Grandfather Ethan planted strawberry seedlings in the garden bed, and when they grew big strawberries that were all shiny and red - everybody wanted to taste them: the cow, the crow, and even the cat. It's a good thing that the scarecrow was there to scare them away! But what happens when little Nora, the granddaughter, wants to collect the shiny red strawberries?
Finally, how to make this hand sewn felt strawberry for a fun hands-on activity.
Simple Hand Sewn Strawberry
You will need:
- Embroidery Floss- Yellow, red, green
- Blunt sewing needle
- Felt- Red and green
- Scissors
- Cotton stuffing or scrap fabric for stuffing
Directions:
Cut a half circle from the red felt.
It should be about 5” wide on the flat side is a good size for most kids to work with.
Thread a long piece of yellow embroidery thread on the blunt needle and tie a knot in the end.
Pierce the felt and draw the thread all the way through until it is tight.
Pierce the needle back through the other side very close to the first one. This will create tiny little seeds on your strawberry, repeat all over the piece
The back is going to end up looking like this but that’s okay it’s going on the inside and it won’t be seen.
Once you have enough seeds tie a knot in the yellow thread and cut off the excess.
Thread a long string of red embroidery floss onto your blunt needle.
Fold the semi-circle in half and sew along the straight edge with a very basic stitch. Tie a knot in the end and cut off the excess.
If you have a lot of string leftover, you can reknot it and use it to close the top.
To do this you want to run the needle in and out along the top with a straight stitch but leave these stitches loose until you have sewn all the way around.
Stuff with cotton filler or even scraps of felt.
Pull the end of the thread tightly like a drawstring to close the top, run a few stitches through to secure.
Cut a 4-point leaf out of the green felt.
And enjoy all that strawberry deliciousness this spring with this fun craft.
