2nd - 5th Grade Spring Activities

Make a spring collage with your child to get them outside and those creative juices flowing!

Learn how to make a weathervane with this fun and simple meteorology project for fourth graders.

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.

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

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

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!

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

This first grade science activity brings the green grass of early spring inside while teaching your child about the cycles of growth.

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

Inspired by the children's book, Charlotte's Web by E.B. White, this card brings the spunky spider Charlotte to life!

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

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

Have your child build his own mini waterfall, and help him develop his planning, problem solving, and architectural skills.

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

Help your child plant a âtea garden": a garden made of herbs for making teas.

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

Combine your creative fifth grader's love of nature, art and poetry with leaf printing!