7+ Spring-Themed Activities for Kids that are Lively and Fun

Try these spring-themed activities for primary classrooms: art, ELA poetry, life sciences activities, and books and videos to use each spring as kids learn and grow.

Spring-Themed Activities for the Classroom

Spring is a wonderful time to add new activities about growth and rebirth to the lesson plans. If you are looking for spring activities for kids, these art activities and lessons are just what you need. You’ll find arts and crafts, spring reading lists, poetry lessons, and fun science.

Continue reading to learn more!

Cherry Blossom Trees

Nothing says spring more than seeing beautiful cherry blossoms emerge on tree branches. It is one of the first signs of spring that makes us feel like change is coming (weather, plants, etc.). Observe the cherry blossoms outside every spring and discuss how they look. Then, create trees to decorate the bulletin boards in the school and classroom.

For this art lesson, start by demonstrating how to paint a tree using brown paint on white cardstock. Using a larger paintbrush and brown tempera paint, begin by painting the tree trunk and work up to adding branches. Explain to the children that trees and branches are not perfect and look crooked. Let the kids fill in their trees with paint and let them dry.

Use small square pieces of pink, white, and peach tissue paper for the cherry blossoms. Scrunch each piece of paper into balls and dab it with white glue. Then, place the cherry blossoms all over the branches until the trees are covered.

Once the trees are complete, hang them up and create a beautiful spring cherry blossom bulletin board.

Butterfly Directed Drawing

This butterfly-directing drawing lesson teaches your students how to draw and paint their butterflies for spring. It includes free printable instructions to help you teach your lesson. Learning How to Draw a Butterfly is fun and simple!

Spring-Themed Book List for Kids

At the beginning of every season, I fill our classroom bookshelf with different books to complement our lessons and themes. The following fiction and non-fiction books are the best classroom books to have on your spring bookshelf.

Check out some of my favorites below (Amazon Affiliate links).

1. Everything Spring by Jill Esbaum
2. The Tiny Seed by Eric Carle
3. It’s Spring by Linda Glaser
4. Planting a Rainbow by Lois Ehlert
5. All About Spring Series by Martha Rustad
6. Fletcher and the Springtime Blossoms by Julia Rawlinson
7. The Earth Book by Todd Parr
8. 10 Things I Can Do to Help My World by Melanie Walsh
9. Like a Windy Day by Frank Asch
10. Caterpillar to Butterfly by Laura Marsh
11. Seed to Plant by Kristin Rattini
12. Spring is Here by Heidi Gray
13. When Spring Comes by Kevin Henkes
14. An Extraordinary Egg by Leo Lionni

Spring-Themed Activities for Kids – ELA & Poetry

Frog & Toad Book Report

Many teachers look forward to diving deeper into books with first graders each spring. They are ready to explore longer and more complex books beyond the simple picture book. They are eager to read chapter books. Arnold Nobel’s Frog and Toad books are the perfect beginner chapter books because they have text and vocabulary that young children can decode and understand.

Try completing your first book report using these classic stories. Read each chapter page by page, with students reading the pages aloud. Pass out a book copy for every pair of students to share and follow along. Discuss what the chapter is about and share your thoughts. Then, complete a page in the book report booklets. Finishing this book report activity this way helps build reading comprehension.

Above is a student completing her book report page after reading chapter one of Frog and Toad Together as a class. These book reports and activities also work great for your small group and guided reading lessons. The Frog and Toad Book Reports include these ready-made print-and-go reports your students will love. Grab the Frog & Toad Series for your classroom, and you’re all set.

Spring Acrostic Poetry Writing

Spring is the perfect time to teach and write poetry, with April being Poetry Month. This time of year presents many new experiences for our senses, perfect for expressing through poetry. Create spring acrostic poetry writing with your students using thoughts and words about spring. Hang a rainbow display with the spring acrostic poems around your classroom.

Poetry is a fun way to teach sight words, reading and writing, and science! Use activities like these to learn how to teach acrostic poems and more.

Spring Science Activities for Kids

Science Videos

Playing videos for your students to teach them about science is a useful tool. We can read and tell our students about different occurrences, such as the butterfly life cycle or how the seasons change, but showing children via video makes that concept come to life. YouTube is an excellent source for videos you can easily share with your class. There is even an app called YouTube Kids that you can download for your tablet.

• 4 Seasons Video by Socratica Kids
• Life Cycle of a Butterfly Video by dscottprod
• Nature Time Lapse Video by TheChokAAA

Spring Resources for the Classroom

Every unit on spring should include the study of life cycles and changes. Engage students with science experiments and explorations outside. Teach a comprehensive unit, All About Spring, with fact-filled text and interesting assignments about the weather, plants, animals, and more. 

Engage students in Spring Science Units using printable vocabulary cards, posters, worksheets, and more. There are experiments to try and art projects to complete. This bundle covers chickens, butterflies, frogs, and flowers!

Free Spring-Themed Activities for Kids

Grab your FREE spring life science pack, which includes activities to learn about four different life cycles (chicken, butterfly, flowers, frog). It’s a little taste of everything in the big bundle above.

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