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7 Free Printable Sunflower Templates

Our free printable 7 Sunflower Template Printable Outlines come in small, medium, and large and include sunflower coloring pages.

They are perfect when it comes to studying flowers, learning the letter “S”, and summer crafts.

Let’s dive right in and get inspired by our free summer printables and matching craft ideas!

free printable sunflower templates

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6 Sunflower Facts

Here are 6 Facts About Sunflowers you probably didn’t know!

  1. Each sunflower is actually thousands of teeny flowers.
  2. Sunflowers are native to North America.
  3. There are about 70 different species of sunflowers.
  4. Each sunflower can contain between 1,000 and 2,000 seeds.
  5. The tallest sunflower on record was over 30 feet.
  6. Sunflowers track the sun.

We always love to integrate some fun facts into our arts and crafts lessons. It gives your children the opportunity to learn while crafting in a care- and stress-free environment.

In the link below you can read and learn everything about sunflowers.

How tall can they get, what shows that sunflowers track the sun, where they grow, and much other information?

You can find these and other interesting facts about sunflowers here.

Sunflower Books for Kids

In case you like learning more about sunflowers or reading a fascinating sunflower story, go check out these great books. You will find here a variation of non-fiction and fiction sunflower books for kids.

Happy reading!

Follow the journey of a seed as it grows to be a beautiful sunflower and then dies back to the soil. Sunny is a celebration of the life cycle of a sunflower as it relates to our human experience.

The process of a new life starting is fascinating! Watch a sunflower grow from a seed to a tall plant. Young readers will learn about the stages in a sunflower’s life as well as its appearance.

Key Features Description Scurry is going to grow a sunflower for his mommy. But disaster strikes when his little brother, Scamp, eats the only sunflower seed!

Discover an Amazing Story from the Natural World-Padded Board Book.

Free Sunflower Template Printables

Our sunflower outlines come in small, medium, and large.

They are especially popular when it comes to summer crafting. We use them for all kinds of arts and crafts projects and implement them in our preschool lesson plans.

Below you can find several sunflower craft ideas for our templates. Do not forget to check them out!

You will see our free sunflower template printables can be used in many different ways. They are great for crafting at home, in a classroom, or in any other group setting.

But before we get started with all these fun sunflower craft template ideas, let’s have a look at what we will need for our sunflower craft projects. Here is a list of supplies you will need for our templates of sunflowers.

Sunflower Cut Out Materials

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9 Easy Sunflower Template Ideas

It is always nice to get an idea of how to use our sunflower outlines or see other related activities. I hope the following sunflower craft ideas will inspire you.

Therefore here are 9 Simple Sunflower Craft Activities to keep you and your children entertained:

  1. Learn About Sunflowers
  2. S Is for Sunflowers
  3. Counting Sunflowers
  4. Sunflower Coloring Pages
  5. Sunflower Stencils
  6. DIY Sunflower Invitation
  7. Art Journal Decor
  8. Sunflower Garland
  9. Sunflower Decoration
  10. Simple Sunflower Template Outline

1. Learn About Sunflowers

As we already started introducing some sunflower facts above, you can easily add sunflowers to your preschool flower lesson plan.

While learning about flowers make a simple sunflower craft project.

You can also add some educational books about sunflowers from above. This will help you with your studies about sunflowers

Maybe even plant some sunflowers!

2. S is for Sunflower

Add our easy sunflower templates to your preschool alphabet lesson plan. Use them while learning the letter S.

First, print out some upper and lowercase letter S worksheets.

Then let your students trace them and make a cute sunflower craft for the S sound.

Tip: It is important to make sure to study each letter individually so your students can form memories for each letter and memorize them easier.

Sunflower Coloring Sheet
Sunflower Coloring Sheet

3. Counting Sunflowers

Do you try to teach your students or children how to count? Why not let them count sunflowers?

Use our smallest sunflower outlines for this project. Decorate and cut them together first.

Then use them together with number flashcards and let your children count the right amount of sunflowers matching your cards.

What do you think, It super fun right?

4. Sunflower Coloring Pages

The easiest way of using our templates is as sunflower coloring pages. Take our large sunflower outline printable and turn it into an easy sunflower coloring sheet.

You can adjust the difficulty level by using the larger picture of sunflowers for younger children and the smaller sunflower printables for older children.

Instead of simply coloring the sunflower sheets with markers, your kids can also try various new painting techniques to make it more interesting.

For example, have they tried Salt Painting yet? It is really fun and will give the flowers a great 3d look.

Take a look at the link above to see the full tutorial!

free printable sunflower coloring page
Free Printable Sunflower Coloring Page

5. Sunflower Stencils

Using our sunflower printouts as stencils is also an easy way to make an adorable sunflower craft.

I recommend using the smaller or medium-sized outlines of sunflowers to repurpose them into sunflower stencils.

Our most loved painting technique for stencils is using an old toothbrush. With the help of watercolors, you can create beautiful sunflower artwork.

You can find the full instructions and complete Toothbrush Technique Guide here.

You should give it a try!

Did you enjoy our sunflower template printables? Then try our popular Flower Pot Template, Sun Outlines, or Watermelon Printables next.

6. DIY Sunflower Invitation

Do you plan a summer get-together?

Simply use one of our sunflower outlines, decorate them, and make adorable invitations out of them.

They also make fun summer greeting cards for your family and friends.

I recommend using our medium sunflower stencil templates to create your card or invitations.

You are looking for fun quotes and messages for your DIY cards and decorations? Then check out our library of Quotes for every Occasion.

free printable sunflower templates outlines

7. Art Journal Decore

Our sunflower templates or sunflower pattern printables will help you to design your art journal, scratch book, or decorate a photo album.

Craft creative shapes with our sunflowers and use them as backgrounds, patterns, or focal points in your project.

8. Sunflower Garland

Do you have a summer or fall party coming up? Then make an adorable sunflower garland and decorate it for your celebration.

Simply craft away with our medium-sized sunflower outlines. After you are finished coloring and decorating them, go ahead and cut them out.

Then take a long string and attach your sunflower arts and crafts projects to a string with clear tape.

Make sure to place them at the same distance apart so it will look nicer.

I also recommend using thicker cardboard paper for this sunflower project. Thicker paper will make sure your DIY garland lasts longer.

Now all you gotta do is hang it up.

free sunflower printables

9. Sunflower Decoration

As you could read above you can turn our sunflower template to cut out into invitations and garlands. But they also can be used to decorate for your next summer or fall party. You can hang them on walls, windows, or doors, and use them as table decoration.

Use our sunflower templates to create table place cards, use them as nametags for your party favors, or add them to your snack or gift boxes.

The possibilities for our sunflower printables as decoration for your house or next party are endless!

free printable sunflower outlines

10. Simple Sunflower Template Outline

Our simple sunflower outlines can be used in many different ways. Use them as a party or home decoration, DIY gifts, worksheets, different crafts, and many others.

Let us know what you used our free printable sunflower templates for in the comments below.


You loved crafting with our easy sunflower templates but like to learn now how to draw a sunflower yourself? Then go check out this fun sunflower art tutorial next.

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