The invention relates to a preparation method of a silicon carbon negative electrode material for lithium ion batteries. The preparation method is characterized in that the preparation technology specifically comprises the following preparation steps: through expanded graphite pretreatment, precursor turbid liquid configuration, precursor preparation and silicon-enriched material preparation, sufficiently mixing a silicon-enriched material with other negative electrode carbon materials of lithium batteries, and obtaining the silicon carbon negative electrode material through ball-milling, wherein the silicon-enriched material accounts for 10% to 30% of total mass, and the other negative electrode carbon materials of lithium batteries comprise synthetic graphite. According to the method, silica powder is not used as a silicon source, on one hand, the material cost is reduced, and on the other hand, the insertion of silicon among expanded graphite layers is guaranteed, so that the buffer action of expanded graphite on silicon is guaranteed; and moreover, the method uses the other negative electrode carbon materials as a main carbon source, so that the flexibility of the material is improved, the cost is reduced, batch is easily realized, and the controllability of cost and performance are reached.