1st - 3rd 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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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!

What better way to celebrate spring than with a fabulous flower party? Pack the day with fun flower activities and treats for a truly springalicious event!

This little bumble bee is the perfect springtime party table decoration and is great practice for pattern-making, folding and cutting.

Flowers will brighten up anyone's day! Share the joy of spring by making a picture of a vase with fun 3-D flowers that will never wilt.

Celebrate the season of flowers with a homemade vase budding with blooms of the season. Filled with the warmth of a sunny day, it's just the thing for spring.

Make this spring break a memorable one by creating a "growth" flower with your child, also great for your second grader's writing practice!

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.

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.

These delicious Easter Basket Cupcakes are a simple, creative holiday treat. These cupcakes sit in waffle bowls with festive coconut grass and jellybean eggs.

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

Celebrate spring with a cute cut-out bug button your child can make out of colorful felt and markers!

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.

Stock up on the colorful jelly beans available around Easter and put them to work in a piece of jelly bean art!

Kids make a cute pipe cleaner bumble bee craft and learn a few interesting bee facts along the way in this spring-themed arts and crafts activity.

There are a lot of ways to make decorative wreaths. This wreath uses cloth and egg carton flowers!

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.