Spring Activities Theme for Preschool

Ahhh, Spring activities time! Finally!

For those of you who have, or still are, "surviving" the winter weather in your area...let's think SPRING!

You'll find more themes to help you with your planning on my preschool themes page 

Art Ideas for Your Spring Activities Theme

Tissue Collages

Materials Needed: wax paper, liquid starch or watered down glue, colored tissue paper

The children dip the paper in the starch or glue and place all over the wax paper (or you can use construction paper). When dried, these look beautiful! You can use construction paper as well!

Sun Marble Painting

Materials needed: Paper precut into large circles; yellow and orange paint watered down a little bit, marbles

Place circles into box covers or pie pans. Place a some paint on the paper and a few marbles. The children shake the box or tin to roll the marbles around for a sun!

EXTENSION: When dry, our kiddos love to glue on googly eyes and draw faces on their suns as well as cut out sun "rays" to glue on from different colors!

Newspaper Spring Hats

Materials: To make the hats: sheets of newspaper (double page spreads--2 for each child); masking tape

To decorate the hats: glue, miscellaneous arts and craft materials--sequins, yarn, ribbon, paper scraps, artificial flowers, etc.

Place one double page paper on the child's head lengthwise from front to back. Then place the second sheet over that one from side to side. Mold to child's head.

Have child hold paper on their head by placing their hands on the top of their heads on the paper.

Using masking tape, wrap around the paper about where there ears are to make a band for it so fit.

Write their name on the hat.

Bring hats to the art table to decorate!

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Block Ideas for Your Spring Activities Theme

Place small colored blocks in your block area along with large wood unit blocks. You'll be surprised at the flowers and other spring shapes that can be made from these!

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Circle Time Ideas for Your Spring Activities Theme

Circle Time is such a great time for children to learn the social skills of being together as a large group AND to learn more about your Space Theme!

Rain Sticks

Bring rain sticks to circle time and let the children use them to create soft rain sounds (moving them slowly) or a downpour (shaking them!).

Variation:  Make rain sticks with the children at circle time by covering one end of a paper towel tube, having them measure a few spoons of rice or small pebbles into the tube and then covering the top.

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Snack Ideas to Cook Up for Your Spring Activities Theme

Cooking with children helps develop their math skills and helps them to learn how to follow directions. It also allows for some great conversation! Ask many questions while cooking with your children to encourage conversation! Be sure to ask specific Space theme questions while making these fun snacks!

Sunshine Muffins

Ingredients and Items Needed: English muffins and grated yellow cheese!

Have the children, supervised, help you grate the cheese if you like! Or, provide grated cheese for the children to place on their English muffin half. Broil in oven until cheese is melted.

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Spring Activities Theme Ideas To Transform Your Dramatic Play Area

Housekeeping

Bring spring fever or spring cleaning into your housekeeping area. Provide a small, shallow bin with soapy water to wash dishes and towels to dry them, a pretend vacuum cleaner, etc.

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Spring Activities Theme Ideas for Your Easel--
More Than Just Painting

(Although that is always THE favorite in our classroom!)

Spring Sky

Materials Needed: Blue and white paint, white paper

Your children will create some of the most beautiful shades of blue and clouds!

EXTENSION: When dry, use these as a backing to a bulletin board!

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Spring Activities Theme Large Group Games To Help Your Preschoolers Build Their Muscles While Having Fun Together!

Parachute Spring Activities

Talk to the children about spring things while using the parachute and move the chute to go with the discussion:

There was a LOT of snow, it was this high! Then it began to melt, and melt and melt (chute slowly lowers).

It rains in the spring, sometimes lightly (up and down slowly with the chute)...and sometimes HARD (shake chute a lot!)

continue on about seeds that grow, flowers that get bigger and bigger, etc.!

Spring Cleaning

Bring sponges and soapy water outside to clean up your riding cars or classroom chairs! It's like a car wash!

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Spring Activities Theme Book Ideas for Your Library

(I LOVE Amazon, and some of the links below will take you to the Amazon website.  If you do choose to purchase yours through Amazon, they do send me a few cents--which supports my coffee habit! )

Clifford's Spring Clean-Up by Norman Bridwell

Hi, Clouds by Carol Greene

The Cloud Book by Tomie dePaola

Dinofours: We Love Mud by Steve Metzger

Dinofours: Rain! Rain! Go Away by Steve Metzger

It Looked Like Spilt Milk by Charles Shaw

Peter Spier's Rain

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Spring Activities Theme Ideas To Help Your PReschoolers Develop Their Small Muscles & Their Math Skills!

Umbrella Number Matching

Materials Needed: In advance, make umbrella tops and handles as shown in the picture above.

The children match the handle to the umbrella with the corresponding number of sections!

VARIATION: Program the umbrellas with letters either matching capital letters or matching the capital letter to the lower case letter.

Bird Sticks

Materials: construction paper, scissors, craft sticks, glue sticks, markers, crayons

The children practice cutting by cutting out the circles. They color these any colors they want to make their birds!

They then cut out a beak. Draw on the eyes and beak and then tape or glue onto craft sticks....they can color the craft sticks as well...they look great as branches!

They now have great birds to use for any spring fingerplays or poems!

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Spring Activities Theme Music and Movement Ideas To Get Your Preschoolers Movin' and Groovin'!

Rhythm Stick Flower Power

Give each child 2 rhythm sticks (or dowel posts work well also!).

After reviewing how seeds grow, act it out with the sticks.

The seeds are quietly in the ground.

They are starting to grow.

The rain is pouring!

The sun is out, quietly!

Now the seeds are growing and growing, etc.

Add items as you see fit. Try counting flowers. "8 flowers grew!" Then they tap out by hitting the sticks together 8 times.

I’m a Little Flower Seed

sung to I’m A Little Teapot
I'm a little flower seed.
I'm planted in the earth.  (squat down)
I feel the sun come down on me to warm the earth (children sit and tuck in their heads and knees to look like a ball)
The rain begins to come and gets rid of my thirst. (wave hands in air, wiggling fingers like rain)
I then become a flower…come pick me first! (children stand up)

Five Spring Flowers
Five spring flowers all in a row.
The first one said, "We need rain to grow!"
The second one said, "Oh my, we need water!"
The third one said, "Yes, it is getting hotter!"
The fourth one said, "I see clouds in the sky."
The fifth one said, "I wonder why?"

Then BOOM went the thunder
And ZAP went the lightning!
That springtime storm was really frightening!
But the flowers weren't worried–no, no, no, no!
The rain helped them to grow, grow, GROW! 

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Spring Activities Theme Ideas for Your Sand & Water Table

Mud

Why not?!! Put sand or dirt (potting soil) in your sensory table and spray water bottles. Add spoons, cups, small bowls for mud pies and other fun activities!

NOTE: Be sure to leave the table uncovered overnight so it can dry up overnight as well as not begin to mold.

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Spring Activities Theme Ideas for Your Preschool Scientists in Training!

Bird Nest

If you can find a deserted bird's nest, let the kids investigate it!

Also, make a bird's nest! Provide lint from your lint dryer, sticks, twigs, pieces of fabric. Place it at your science center for the kids to explore. Place it all in a can or bowl and hang it outside. The birds will take the material to make a nest with!

Mudpies!

Of course!  Materials Needed: dirt, water, measuring cups, spoons, bins

Let the children measure dirt and water to determine how to make mud...and mudpies!

Blooming Spring!

Find some fruit tree or bush branches and place them in water.  The water will force them to bloom over time! You might also look for branches that have 3 stages of blooming on the same plant or bush: one with no buds, one with buds and one that has flowered.  Place them in vases for the children to observe the stages.

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Writing Ideas for Your Preschool Classroom's Spring Activities Theme

Weather Pictures

Materials Needed: Paper, markers and weather stickers

The children use the materials to make a picture of any type of weather they want: snow, rain, windy, etc.

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