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Spring Fun

Spring Fun

Spring is here, and with it comes a season of outdoor exploration, learning, and celebration! Get ideas for spending Spring with your family, from activities and science ideas to printable fun.

Spring Activities

Newspaper Flowers

Don't throw that Sunday paper away just yet! If you've got a kid who thinks she's "too old" for crafts, introduce her to beautifully simple newspaper flowers.

Egg Carton Flowers

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

Over the Rainbow

This colorful collage activity is a great way to practice using different materials to create texture and learn the colors of the rainbow.

Make Your Own Garden Markers

With spring in the air, it's time to get outside and dig! Once seeds go into the ground, invite your kids to mark the spot in style.

Flower Basket Craft

Celebrate May Day and the beauty of spring with a charming basket of handmade paper blooms!

How to Press Flowers

April showers may bring May flowers, but your child can preserve the beauty of spring's bounty all year long with this simple craft project!

Spring Science

Potato Craft

In the mood for a bit of silly science? Help your child create a truly one-of-a-kind planter out of a potato head!

Growing Sunflower Sprouts

With large seeds that are easy for kids to manipulate and a fast growth rate, sunflower greens make great first gardening projects for kids to try at home.

Make Your Own Seed Packets

Create homemade seed packets with your kids. This activity combines your kids' love of science and the outdoors with a little writing and drawing fun.

How to Make a Sketchbook

Get your kid to venture outside to observe the world around her. She'll collect natural items from the outdoors to make prints and sketches for her garden sketchbook!

Be a Flower Spy!

Flowers are up to some very important business: they are reproducing! In this activity find out who the flowers' "partners in crime" are by being a flower spy.

Egg Carton Garden

Foster your kid's interest in nature by starting a mini garden in a paper egg carton. He'll get to see the full growing cycle, from planting seeds to reaping the results.

Spring Printables

Play Busy Bees

Chock full of cute and colorful graphics, this fun board game is guaranteed to please your preschooler.

Springtime Addition

Spring is a time of rain and flowers, and it's also the perfect time for math! Print out this colorful worksheet and make the next rainy day an educational one!

Color the Spring Things Path

The baby duck wants to go to the pond! On this prekindergarten math and science worksheet, kids color the path that shows spring things to help the duck get to the pond. Watch ...

What Do You Wear in the Spring?

Splish, splash! It's a warm spring day, but a rain shower is on the way! Kids completing this preschool science worksheet circle the appropriate clothes for a spring day. ...

Practice Patterns: Bugs, Bugs, Bugs

Patterns are everywhere, from math and science to literature and poetry. Here's a worksheet that will help your first grader get better at identifying and labeling patterns.

Plant Life Cycle Flash Cards

Budding botanists will love these flash cards that encourage science and curiosity about life cycles.