The weather is warming up and it’s time to bring out your Spring Crafts and Activities for Kids. Here are 50 of the best Spring themed play ideas for toddlers, preschoolers and kindergartners. Play based learning will be easy with these amazing ideas.
If you want to make your Spring themed lessons a breeze, then check out the Spring Activity Pack. It’s filled with math and literacy centers, fine motor activities and arts and crafts templates. All of which are aligned with preschool learning standards. Check it out today.
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Table of contents
- Arts and Crafts for Spring
- Spring Fine Motor Activities
- Spring Science for Kids
- Spring Sensory Bins
- Free Spring Printables
Arts and Crafts for Spring
1. Spring Flowers Collage Art
Spring flowers collage art is perfect for toddlers and preschoolers. Especially if you’re looking for a mess free kids art idea.
2. Tissue Paper Stained Glass Art
There are two different ways to make Tissue Paper Stained Glass Art for Spring. Learn how to make your classroom windows look the part for the change in season.
Photo: Fun-A-Day
3. Toilet Roll Stamp Flowers
Learn how to make toilet roll stamp flowers, an easy way to recycle those old cardboard rolls. Your kids will love this fun art activity.
4. Spring Fingerprint Tree Craft
Spring Fingerprint Tree is a project that embraces the idea of simple art for kids. If you love cherry blossom crafts or seasonal craft, this is perfect for your kindergarten classroom.
Photo: A Dab of Glue Will Do
5. Hammering Flowers Art
Enjoy the spring life in the garden and try this hammering flowers art. It’s a fantastic way to burn off some toddler and preschooler energy.
6. Flowers on Watercolor Background
Here’s a colorful spring art project for kids that combines a few different art techniques- black marker drawings on a unique watercolor background. Don’t you just love how the flowers really pop.
Photo: Buggy and Buddy
7. Clothespin Bird Craft
Learn how to make this Clothespeg Bird Craft for Kids. These DIY toys accompany the free printable bird spotting book in a garden scavenger hunt activity.
8. Invitation to Create Art with Spring Colors
Arts and crafts for Spring don’t have to be super involved. In this activity all you need to do is to put out some art materials in spring colors, and invite the children to create. Easy, right?
Photo: Buggy and Buddy
9. Egg Carton Dragonfly
Save your old egg cartons because you can use them to create this beautiful dragonfly. This is just one of many insect crafts you can make this Spring.
For more ideas, check out these 9 Egg Carton Insect Crafts for Kids
10. Fine Motor Rainbow
Help your child make some simple 3D spring art projects including a fine-motor rainbow, flower arranging and pipe cleaner sculptures.
Photo: One Time Through
11. Paper Plate Rainbow Craft
Discover a great way for kids to learn about different colors with this paper plate rainbow craft. Engaging, educational, and lots of fun!
12. Paper Plate Butterfly Craft
Fun awaits with a paper plate butterfly craft for kids! With bright colors and simple steps, kids of all ages can enjoy this delightful activity.
13. Bee Cut and Paste Art
Free printable cut and paste bee art: a fun activity that will also help young children practice their scissor skills
14. Butterfly Suncatcher Craft
Get ready for a great time crafting a stunning butterfly suncatcher, perfect for the spring season. Bring some beauty into your space today!
15. Black Glue Rainbow Art
Fun activities for older kids: Create stunning black glue rainbow art! Explore a unique and colorful craft project that will captivate young artists.
16. Paper Plate Snail Craft
Create a paper plate snail craft – so much fun for the whole family! Easy and delightful DIY activity for everyone to enjoy.
17. Egg Carton Caterpillar
Discover the wonders of the natural world with an engaging egg carton caterpillar craft! Perfect for kids and nature enthusiasts alike.
18. Tissue Paper Hyacinth Craft
It’s the perfect time to embrace creativity! Explore the art of making tissue paper hyacinth craft and add a touch of beauty to your surroundings.
19. Paper Plate Caterpillar Craft
Teach the letter C in a creative way with this paper plate caterpillar craft! A colorful, hands-on activity that’s perfect for young learners.
20. Caterpillar Name Craft Template
Get ready for a fun spring activity with our Caterpillar Name Craft Template! Print this printable template and let children have a blast learning their names.
For more ideas, visit 25 Arts and Crafts for Spring
Spring Fine Motor Activities
21. Vegetable Garden Fine Motor Activity
This is another free printable for you to download, as well as one of my favorite fine motor activities for kids. Glue the vegetables onto some craft sticks and plant them into a tissue box garden. This is a wonderful way to talk about healthy food and how plants grow.
22. Spring Flower Fine Motor Activity Tray
Use a colander and fake flowers to make this Spring themed fine motor activity. This is a great busy box activity for toddlers and preschoolers.
Photo: No Time for Flashcards
23. Spring Bugs Fine Motor Activity
Turn dot stickers into cute garden bugs. Then stick the bugs onto a toilet roll garden scene. This can be used purely as a fine motor activity for toddlers, or a number matching activity for preschool and kindergarten.
24. Fine Motor Flowers Math Tray
This Flower themed math tray comes with a free printable to practice number recognition. Perfect for preschool math centers.
Photo: No Time for Flashcards
25. Cut the Grass Activity
This scissors activity gives the kids a wonderful surprise. As they cut the grass (green craft paper), they’ll discover different flowers and insects hiding underneath. The spring scene hiding under the grass comes as a free printable to make this activity easy to prep, even for a large class. Visit the Cut the Grass post to get your free copy.
26. Spring Lacing Cards
These Spring Lacing Cards are the perfect way to get excited about warmer weather. Plus, they are great for working on fine motor skills, too.
Photo: Living Life and Learning
27. Spring Garden Fine Motor Sensory Activity
Create a garden fine motor activity with your preschoolers. Build hand strength and explore some spring play ideas together.
Photo: Hands On As We Grow
28. Bee Fine Motor Activity
This activity starts with bee tongs flying around a garden of cupcake liner flowers. The flowers are filled with yellow rainbow rice which acts as pollen while in the flowers. Transfer the pollen into the beehive and turn it into honey.
29. Spring Flowers Name and Fine Motor Activity
Making this Spring Flowers Name Activity is really simple and uses only a few supplies. Spray the flowers with a spray bottle and get in some fine motor fun too.
Photo: Stir the Wonder
30. Button Flowers
Button flower fine motor activity. Your preschool or Pre-K kids can use buttons and chenille craft stems to create button flowers for a spring theme.
Photo: Pre-K Pages
31. Rainbow Sticky Wall
Engage toddlers and preschoolers with a rainbow sticky wall activity, perfect for learning about the spring weather. Let their creativity shine as they stick and arrange the colors!
32. Frog Pond Playdough
Looking for a great activity for Kids on a sunny day? Try Frog Pond Playdough! Let your little ones explore, create, and imagine in this engaging outdoor playdough adventure.
33. DIY Butterfly Peg Board
Discover the best way to boost fine motor skills with a DIY butterfly themed peg board activity. Encourage creativity and learning through hands-on fun!
34. Spring Tree Threading Activity
Let your children explore the beauty of cherry blossoms while enjoying this spring tree threading activity. A fun and interactive way to celebrate spring!
For more ideas, visit 20 Spring Fine Motor Activities
Spring Science for Kids
35. Color Changing Flowers Experiment
Can you make a rose turn blue? With the right materials, you can make a flower turn any color you like. This color changing flowers experiment demonstrates how plants drink water. Absorbing it through their roots and into their stem and petals using capillary action.
36. Chromatography Flowers
Use coffee filters and chromatography to make some beautiful flowers for Spring. This is a fun science activity that lets kids explore the concept of chromatography.
Photo: Buggy and Buddy
37. Butterfly Life Cycle Activity for Kids
The printable is perfect as a low prep activity, all you need to do is print it out and grab some paint. However, when teaching your class about the butterfly, you’ll need to show them the stages first. Use a book, video, or the photos from the free printable to discuss the butterfly life cycle with your class first. Then use this science activity as a chance to repeat the information in a slower, more hands-on way.
38. Cress Caterpillar
Growing beans and seeds is one of the best spring activities for kids. But have you ever taken it one step further and turned these seeds into an animal, like a caterpillar?
Photo: Science Sparks
39. Rainbow Science with a CD
Use the back of a CD to make rainbows. But hang on, you can also use paper to turn those rainbows into different patterns.
Photo: Buggy and Buddy
40. Crystal Flowers Spring Activity
Growing crystals is one of my favorite Spring science activities because it’s just so easy. Make the crystal flowers out of pipe cleaners and let them sit in water and borax, until the crystals start to form.
Photo: Little Bins for Little Hands
41. How to Make a Worm Tower
Do you love heading outside during Spring? How about gardening? If you’re all about nature then try making a worm tower with your kids and turn them into nature-lovers.
Photo: Teach Beside Me
42. Bursting Buds Spring Science
There are a lot of science experiments around growing seeds or beans. But what about bursting buds from trees or bushes? This is a fun alternative to explore the coming of spring this year with your kids.
Photo: Only Passionate Curiosity
43. How Do Plants Breathe?
Place some leaves in water and discover how plants breathe. This is a wonderful science activity for Spring because it’s surprisingly easy.
Photo: Little Bins for Little Hands
44. Grow a Rainbow Experiment
Did you know that you can grow a rainbow. All you need are paper towels and washable markers (or food coloring) and place each end into a cup of water. As the water travels up the paper towel it will take the colors with, making a rainbow.
Photo: The Best Ideas for Kids
45. Growing Beans Science for Kids
Discover the perfect activity for kids with this exciting bean-growing science experiment. Spark curiosity and learning in a fun way.
46. Spring Flowers Math Game
Get your copy of the Spring Flowers Math Game and add it to your collection of free Spring printables. Kids will learn counting, addition and turn taking.
Spring Sensory Bins
47. Flower Soup
This is one of the most simple spring play ideas you can do. Fill a tub with water and make flower soup. This is perfect if you have a bouquet of flowers that is starting to look a little sad but you don’t want to throw them away just yet.
48. Spring Flower Sensory Bottle
This garden in a bottle is magical. Kids will love watching the flowers and butterflies dance around as they explore this sensory bottle.
Photo: Kids Craft Room
49. Spring Garden Sensory Bin
Here we have a Spring garden sensory idea that is half flowerbed and half carrot patch. If you don’t grow your own vegetables, you kids can still learn about growing their own food with this sensory bin.
50. Flowers and Pom Poms Sensory Bin
Spring sensory activities don’t have to be messy. As you can see, the brown pom poms in this flower themed sensory bin are a wonderful alternative to dirt. You can use them inside and they’re so easy to clean up afterwards.
Photo: My Bored Toddler
51. Insect Sensory Bin
Another alternative to dirt is to use dried black beans in your sensory bins. Add in some toy insects to your sensory play and talk about the animals that live in the garden.
52. Spring Sensory Ice Ornaments
Digging things out of ice is a lot of fun for kids. Add in some flowers to your baking molds to create some Springtime ornaments that will melt and delight your little ones.
Photo: Learning and Exploring Through Play
53. Birds Nest Sensory Bin
Baby birds are hatching in this sensory bin. We tried to make a birds nest out of shredded paper and practiced matching the color of the birds to the color of the eggs.
54. Spring Sensory Bottle
These glittery butterflies will enchant you as they swirl around. Sensory activities for kids are perfect if you need a calm down bottle for frustrated toddlers or preschoolers.
Photo: The Chaos and The Clutter
55. DIY Toddler Garden
Have you got any of those fake flowers at home? If you cut them apart they are perfect for planting in the ground. They’re easy, cheap, and sturdy enough to give your toddlers their own garden to play in.
56. Frog Pond Sensory Bin
This frog pond sensory bin uses blue pebbles as water and lettuce leaves from our toy kitchen instead of lily pads. This is a great sensory bin to practice counting or as an accompanying activity to a frog life cycle lesson.
57. Butterfly Sensory Bin
Spring ideas come alive with this great option – Dive into the world of butterflies with a sensory bin that sparks imagination and learning. Perfect for hands-on exploration.
58. Bird Seed Sensory Bin
Engage toddlers and preschoolers with a spring-themed bird seed sensory bin idea. Perfect for the spring months, this sensory activity will captivate young minds.
59. Bee Sensory Bin
Looking for ways to spend quality time with your kids? Try this bee sensory bin idea for toddlers and preschoolers – engaging, educational, and fun!
For more ideas, visit 17 Spring Sensory Activities for Kids
Free Spring Printables
60. Insect Movement Dice Printable
This Insect Movement Dice is a fun way for kids to get moving. Burn off some energy with this simple activity as your toddlers and preschoolers move like insects.
61. Free Do A Dot Spring Printables
Enjoy these free Spring themed Do-a-Dot sheets, featuring a bird, butterfly, tulips and kids playing in the park. Includes both color or black & white.
Photo: Tot Schooling
62. Free Measuring Flowers Printable
Use both formal and informal measuring with this free measuring flowers printable. It’s perfect for preschool and kindergarten math centers.
63. Garden Animal – Home Matching Game Printable
This garden animal-home matching game is a great printable. This fun kids activity teaches your children all about where different animals live.
64. Spring Printable Puzzles
Celebrate the season with these puzzles for Kids. These free printable Spring puzzles for kids will surely keep the little hands occupied for some time.
Photo: Itsy Bitsy Fun
65. Free Rainbows Alphabet Puzzles
Get your copy of these Free Rainbow Alphabet Puzzles for your preschool classroom. Kids will learn letter recognition, matching, and more.
66. Free Printable Spring Bingo
This Spring Bingo includes images of all kinds of spring vocabulary words. The bingo set includes ten different bingo cards, so it’s easy to print and use for parties. It’s fun for every age to play, and the calling cards include the names of all the items in case you don’t know what they are.
Photo: Artsy Fartsy Mama
67. Kite CVC Word Sort
Spring play ideas can be both fun and educational. This medial vowel sound sorting activity is great for literacy centers and guided reading activities for beginning readers.
Photo: The Kindergarten Connection
68. Spring Shape Matching Worksheet
Teach your toddler or preschooler basic 2D shapes with this spring themed worksheet. Your little one will learn about circles, triangles, and squares. Just print, cut out, & and sort the shapes with this cute shapes matching worksheet.
Photo: Schooltime Snippets
69. Free Printable Spring Jokes
Laugh your way into spring with these free printable kids’ jokes! Have a good time sharing funny and lighthearted moments this season. Download now!
Photo: Artsy Fartsy Mama
For more ideas, visit 20 Free Spring Printables
70. Spring Color By Sight Word
Grab your copy of this free printable color by sight words worksheet. This is a fun way to encourage children who are learning to read.
Photo: Sara J Creations
Over 90+ pages of Spring themed play based learning activities and craft templates. Perfect for preschool and kindergarten.
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