Early Childhood 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.

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.

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!

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

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

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

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.

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

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 mosaic-inspired activity uses kid-friendly yarn and glue to help your kindergarten kid design her own vibrant, brightly-colored flower.

Develop your child's green thumb with this easy planting activity. These plants are guaranteed to grow fast and are "brown-thumb" proofed!

What better way to nurture your child's imagination than by making a fairy house out of materials found in nature!

Achieve the amusement of a pet without all the hassle! This easy-to-craft activity shows your kindergartener how to make his very own pet out of pom-poms.

Celebrate April showers with a springtime arts and crafts activity: make sparkly, shiny raindrops with your kid.

Put old, worn-out picture books to work by constructing a book birdhouse, perfect for welcoming spring.

Take advantage of the spring and summer sun in this arts and crafts activity that has your learner creating pretty flower prints.

Merge the excitement of basketball tournaments with students’ excitement about books! This activity gives kids a chance to read and form opinions about the books.

Try this kindergarten arts and crafts activity and surprise someone special on May Day with a homemade basket of pretty tissue paper blooms.

Enjoy the beautiful outdoors and indulge in a colorful game of I Spy while you're at it! It's just as fun as classic I Spy but twice as educational.

Here's a springtime arts and crafts activity for preschoolers: make batik Easter eggs using melted candle wax and homemade dye.

Perk up your front porch with this hanging vase craft, perfect for spring and for getting kids outdoors!

This fun craft is perfect to do in the spring, and opens up the opportunity to teach your child about birds.

Looking for a way to channel your spring fever? Create a beautiful spring centerpiece with your child!