Preschool - 4th Grade Spring Activities

Make a spring collage with your child to get them outside and those creative juices flowing!

Create a soda bottle garden that defies gravity! This hanging terrarium is housed in a soda bottle and perfect for crafty kids with a growing green thumb.

How do you tell time without a watch? Use the sun! This simple activity will show your child how to build his own sundial.

Use these pretty egg carton flowers to decorate a spring table. They don't require water, they'll never wilt, and they're perfect for Easter.

Make a bouquet of colorful duct tape flowers in this hands-on spring craft.

This simple "how to make a water wheel" activity makes physics come alive for your child by demonstrating how different kinds of energy work.

Build a bird feeder science craft that brings birds to your yard, and a smile to the whole family's face.

Help your kindergartener identify and sort eight different kinds of common seeds on this "seed wheel" plate you can use all growing season.

Whatever the season, celebrate greenery and growth by helping your child study some delightful spring words.

Everyone's heard of taking a dog for a walk. But how about an illustration? This activity teaches emerging readers to use pictures as context clues.

Help your child add some flair to the family garden with pencil pinwheels!

Make a clever egg pop-up card for Easter that hides a special surprise: open the flaps, and out pops a fluffy baby chick!

Combine an introduction to shape and counting with a springtime art project by showing your kindergartener how to create a vibrant rainbow mosaic.

Learn how to make a weathervane with this fun and simple meteorology project for fourth graders.

Celebrate the blooming season with your kid by showing him how to make a magical spring mosaic out of all natural materials!

Craft butterflies from coffee filters in this sweet spring craft project!

This first grade science activity brings the green grass of early spring inside while teaching your child about the cycles of growth.

Help your child create a garden journal sketchbook as she observes and records the natural world through the changing seasons.

Embroidery ain't your grandma's art anymore...it can be adapted to a number of cool designs Jazz up a traditional fabric embellishment with sparkly beads!

Celebrate the coming of Spring and Earth Day with this 3-D art project that makes use of recycled materials.

Do this activity to help your kids see how seeds contain "baby" versions of big plant stems, roots, and leaves.

Make a seed bomb and let your junior guerilla gardener spread flowers far and wide.

Have your child build his own mini waterfall, and help him develop his planning, problem solving, and architectural skills.

Making decorative pottery is a great way to experiment with making patterns and texture on a traditionally smooth surface.

Use sticks and stones to create create an outdoor version of tic-tac-toe!

Your child can cut and fold her way to lots of lovely spring tulips through the art of origami!

This fun and crafty activity is easy enough for your child to lend a helping hand and makes a great indoor or outdoor game.

This flower necklace will have your child practicing patterns, repetition and tracing. Plus, it's so colorful and cute that it makes the perfect gift.

Teach your child about recycling and gardening as she re-uses an empty plastic milk gallon jug to craft a swan-shaped plant container!

Invite the hungry caterpillar over to your house by creating a larger-than-life, colorful caterpillar friend out of balloons!