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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

In this art project, eight petals of a flower are painted in watercolor paint using different techniques, colors, and patterns.

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!

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

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

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!

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

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

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

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

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

Show your fourth grader how to make a delicate, dried flower bookmark with flowers native to their neighborhood.

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.

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

Kids paint a still life of a vase of flowers using colors found side by side on the color wheel, just like Vincent van Gogh's Sunflowers.

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

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.

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

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

Celebrate spring by creating a cute crawly critter bag to fill with your favorite candy!