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Spring into spring with these 48 spring themed activities for preschoolers!
I’m excited for Spring!
After a cold winter, it’s so nice to see flowers blooming and trees budding. It’s like a fresh start.
Besides flowers and other plants, spring reminds me of puddles, mud, rainbows, and butterflies.
I know, butterflies technically aren’t around until later in the year.
But, in my mind, spring and butterflies go together!
Maybe it’s because of all the beautiful blossoming flowers.
Of course, you can’t forget the spring holidays. Easter, St. Patrick’s Day, and Earth Day are top of the list.
And speaking of lists, I’ve put together 48 spring themed activities to add to your list while planning your spring activities for your preschoolers this year.
From fine motor activities to gross motor activities and sensory activities to science activities, I’ve got you covered!
Spring Theme Fine Motor Activities
Painting, threading, bending, cutting, pinching, and more! Get those little fingers moving with these spring themed fine motor activities.
- Thread cereal on a pipe cleaner to make a bird feeder. Similarly, spread some peanut butter on a piece of toast to make a homemade heart bird feeder.
- Bend pipe cleaner pieces. Then stick them in a foam ball for a pipe cleaner flower craft. The sunflower seeds are a great addition!
- Create a tissue paper flower. And don’t forget to add the cute button center.
- Cut pieces of paper for a flower collage. This is also a great way to reinforce colors.
- Make a flower card. Additionally, create the flower design to display as a piece of art.
- Paint a bottle stamp flower and then blow through a straw to make the stems. So much fun!
- Construct hair clip flowers. What a great way to show patterns!
- Glue bits of pink paper and yarn to a paper trunk for a spring tree. So beautiful!
- Color a toilet paper roll spring tree. Then add little pieces for texture.
- Match colors while creating a cereal rainbow. Cotton balls are a great addition to the ends of the rainbow for fluffy clouds.
- Use primary colors to create a rainbow suncatcher. Following this craft, read an interactive book about colors for more color fun.
- Design rainbow window art. How gorgeous!
Spring Theme Gross Motor Activities
Jump into more spring themed activities with the following gross motor activities to get your kids moving.
- Pick a flower like Pre-K Pages. Then do the activity written on the flower.
- Practice colors with a simple flower hop activity as seen on Learn Play Imagine. All you need is some sidewalk chalk and a space to draw (and hop).
- Search for letters on an alphabet flower hunt as shown on Learn Play Imagine. Furthermore, buzz like a bee or flutter like a butterfly.
- Go on a nature scavenger hunt. There are so many things to find! For example, flowers, leaves, pine cones, and more.
- Play a butterfly catch game as seen on Left Brain Craft Brain. Would you try this blind-folded?
- Follow the clues for a rainbow scavenger hunt. Then try it again with different clues.
- Jump from letter to letter with indoor puddle jumping shown on Fun Learning for Kids. A perfect activity for indoor fun!
- Create a mud kitchen. In addition, try one of these 30+ fun activities for kids to play in the dirt.
- Create mud prints like Hands On As We Grow. So many options for prints!
- Find some plastic eggs for a fun spring movement game as seen on Creative Little Explorers. Then try one of these 42 “egg-cellent” Easter crafts for toddlers.
- Do a rolling eggs painting. Similarly, use bouncy balls instead of plastic eggs.
- Decorate an outside window painting. Messy, but fun!
Spring Theme Sensory Activities
I’m sensing some more spring themed activities! Preschoolers can feel textures and play with sensory bins and sensory bags with these spring themed sensory activities.
- Create a spring flowers dough kit like The Kindergarten Connection. First, gather supplies like beads, jewels, dough, and fake flowers. Then create!
- Try a rainbow sponge painting. If doing more than one rainbow, make sure to grab more paper!
- Gather leaves, flowers, and more for a nature painting found on Hands On As We Grow.
- Make a nature wind chime then listen to the sound.
- Assemble a nature suncatcher. Or assemble a shamrock suncatcher craft with glitter!
- Feel a nature sensory bag. In addition to this, try one of these 48 quick sensory bags to make for your kids.
- Play with a flower soup sensory bin as seen on Taming Little Monsters. All you need is a plastic tub, water, fake flowers, and a spoon or small bowl.
- Explore a flowers and pom poms sensory bin shown on My Bored Toddler. So soft!
- Pick a spring garden. This is also great fine motor practice!
- Enjoy a bird nest sensory bin as seen on Modern Preschool. Then build a bird’s nest outdoors.
- Squish a butterfly sensory bag shown on Fun At Home With Kids. And watch the sequins move.
- Grab the shaving cream for a marbled art butterfly. So beautiful!
Spring Theme Science Activities
I love simple science experiments! Science activities are fun to do all year round. But these science activities are perfect for a spring themed learning with your preschoolers.
- See a water cycle in a bottle like A Dab of Glue Will Do. Perfect on a rainy day!
- Watch the separate colors with a Skittles rainbow color experiment as seen on Playdough to Plato. This is a fun way to show density!
- Create a walking rainbow like Pre-K Printable Fun. And discuss the color combinations. For example, red and yellow make orange.
- Design colored coffee filter flowers. As you make them, hypothesize the colors that will appear.
- Try coloring flowers like Growing a Jeweled Rose. Start with white flowers and see what happens.
- Grow crystal flowers as seen on Little Bins for Little Hands. So pretty!
- Learn about flower parts with a flower dissection shown on STEAMsational. And make sure to count the petals.
- Try a seed coat experiment as seen on Gift of Curiosity. But first, make a hypothesis. Do you think seeds need their seed coats to grow?
- Sprout a seed in a bag like Mad in Crafts. Then try one of these 50+ plant activities with simple seed crafts & science activities.
- Build an upcycled flower planter. What a beautiful way to use an empty carton!
- Grow leprechaun hair. And check out these 33 St. Patrick’s Day crafts for kids that boost fine motor skills for more St. Patrick’s Day fun.
- Conduct this dissolve peeps experiment found on A Dab of Glue Will Do. Additionally, try a microwaving peeps experiment as explained on The Resourceful Mama.
Which activity will you spring into first?
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