Garden Unit Cutouts for Kindergarten ESL

These Garden Cutouts bring your lessons to life by turning vocabulary into interactive learning experiences. When combined with flashcards, small cards, and worksheets, they become part of a complete ESL teaching system. 🔗 Get the full Garden Unit here:   https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Garden-Unit-for-Kindergarten-Holistic-English-Series-17-6914668

These Garden Unit Cutouts are part of a complete Garden or Nature Unit for Kindergarten English Language Learners. They allow students to Speak and respond. This is the stage where students begin to use language naturally through play.

Cutouts are one of the most flexible tools in the classroom. 

I painted an egg carton and opened some holes onto it. I also taped a green straw on some flowers and clear ones onto others.

 Cut the straws to make them easier to manipulate.

Listening & Response Activities

I did several activities listening activities for the auditory learning style students, such as: show me or point to!

Teacher: Point to the pink flower.

Play Plant the flower

 Tell the students that you will give the instruction to plant a flower.
Teacher: Jim, plant the orange flower!

Use the command flashcard to help out with the instruction.

Plant the Flower” Game

There is also a template with small color cards. 

Teacher: Plant the orange flower!

 Students follow instructions, reinforcing vocabulary and comprehension.

I had students match each color to each flower and say a phrase: a purple flower.

Take a look!

Review previous unit: fruit and vegetables.

Place the ground cutout and the tree cutouts and ask questions.
Teacher: Where do carrots grow?
Students: on the ground. (Place the cutout)
Continue with all the ground vegetables, then for the tomatoes and the tree for the fruit.

Sorting the cutouts

Sort the cutouts onto plastic plates. Write the word onto each plate using a whiteboard marker. (leaf, flower, plant)

Create a scene on the board! 

This activity develops Speaking. Ask questions.

Teacher: Where is the frog?
Students: It’s on the grass.

Gather all the cutouts and make a garden scene. This kind of scene has the objective to develop visual discrimination to identify different objects and their size that are together in a scene. It is easy to put together using a styrofoam base covered in green paper. I added a craft stick or barbecue stick behind each cutout to punch into the styrofoam.

Ask questions to the students about the colors of the garden items, the position of the animals,etc.

Review the colors with the Cutouts 

Use the color words with the leaves or the flowers to label them.

Review the numbers 1 to 10 with the Cutouts 

Some sunflowers with numbers to review them and also to make a number sequence and if you print them double it can be a memory game.

Make a watering can as prop!

I recycled a laundry detergent bottle. Just glued the prop.
You can say: Water the red flower. Water the tree!

Crafts with the Cutouts 

Do you have so many CDs at home? Well, recycle them by adding a picture of a flower. I added my flowers that are in this resource. The flowers can be handy to review colors.

Teacher: What color is this flower?

Students: yellow!

Leaves and Colors Garden Unit for Kindergarten ESL – Vocabulary and Sentence Activities are at this blog post:   https://eflpreschoolteachers.blogspot.com/2026/01/leaves-colors-garden-unit-for.html

 This resource is part of the BUNDLE for teaching Kindergarten English language Learners:   https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Kindergarten-English-Language-Teaching-Units-BUNDLE-7390586