Spring Activities for Kids: Amazing STEAM Lessons for K-3
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Which of these Spring STEAM activities for kids will you try in your classroom? Teach about springtime flowers, butterflies, birds, plants, and more!
Spring STEAM Activities for Kids
The spring season is a great time to start fresh with new STEAM projects and fun spring activities that are perfect for this time of year. Our classrooms need spring – bright, cheery imagery, warmer weather, and rainbows! You can add flowers and birds to your arts and crafts lessons. Study the changes in spring with the weather – especially rain and rainbows. You can even witness plants returning to life and animals and bugs returning.
Spring encourages your class to study a variety of new topics. To prepare for the new season, I’ve gathered a list of 22 spring STEAM activities for preschool, kindergarten, and primary kids that are perfect for the primary classroom and guarantee fantastic fun.
This butterfly-directed drawing is the perfect art project for your class this spring. Students will not only work on following directions but also explore their creativity and symmetry. Want more? Try any of these spring drawing ideas!
These free printable worksheets are perfect for any spring lesson plan. They cover parts of a caterpillar, the life cycle of a frog, chickens, and butterflies. This is only a sample of what I offer in the Spring Life Science Bundle.
Spring is the perfect time to teach about life cycles. Learn about the butterfly life cycle with helpful book suggestions, daily activity suggestions, and free butterfly life cycle sentence strips.
Break out the rulers and head outside for a spring scavenger hunt, where your students can measure the different growing flowers and other plants that sprout in spring. Repeat the process over a couple of weeks so students can chart the plant growth.
Your class can watch how a plant grows with this simple science experiment of growing beans on cotton balls. Growing plants indoors in the class is a great way to track plant growth.
Growing cress heads is another simple plant growth activity you can do with your class for easter or spring. Red Ted Art also gives suggestions on different questions to have your students think about and find answers to.
Creating daffodils is a bright and cheery spring craft for kids. It allows students to express their creativity and use their engineering skills. All you need are some yellow cupcake liners, straws, buttons, and tape!
This fun color experiment to add to your spring bucket list will have your students using liquid watercolors in eyedroppers to dye coffee filter flowers. Watch the colors mix and spark a conversation about saturation versus over-saturation.
Here’s a spring-themed math activity that will help students identify numbers in a fun game style. Students can play with a partner or in small groups, and different variants of the game are offered.
Everyone loves some fun color science! This dying carnations activity will be exciting for students all day long. They will see the change in the flowers’ colors the entire day and their complete transformation the next morning.
Using pipe cleaners and UV-sensitive beads, students get to make a little animal. This science and engineering activity will challenge students to create a habitat that will protect their animals from the sun.
This two-part activity starts with a fun science experiment to see what each marker’s color is made of (what colors mix to make a new color). Once the coffee filters have dried, students make cute and colorful spring butterflies.
You don’t need to go to the pond for this activity, scoop up some water, and bring the pond to your students! Not only will it be fun having the students inspect the pond water, but there are also free printable activities to do as well.
This ladybug count and clip game is a simple math activity that will give your students a great visual and hands-on way to recognize numbers. To add a fun craft element, you can help your students paint red clothespins and add wings to make ladybugs.
Students can make these fun insects with only some dough and a few craft supplies. This activity also opens up discussion on insects and helps teach the various parts. This makes for great sensory play as a toddler sensory activity.
With a balloon and tissue paper wings for a butterfly, have a discussion and hands-on experiment on how static electricity works. They will think it’s magic!
Spring is known for rain, so umbrellas are the perfect image for this counting and color-sorting game. Every umbrella is assigned a number and is a specific color. This is a fun activity that does double duty!
Using items from nature and some art supplies, this STEAM challenge encourages kids to construct their own bird nest—complete with crafty little birds.
This is another fun science project for kids. They start with a hypothesis and monitor the jar of flowers over time to see how they change and what that change is.
Bring some of nature inside for this math activity involving leaves. Students can count the different types of leaves and use them for texture comparison, measuring the different heights, and pattern making, among many other options.
Incorporating flowers and butterflies into your activities gives everything that warm feeling of spring, and this math game is no exception. Students will roll the die to get their butterfly to the number ten (or whatever the highest number you decide to use).
What’s your favorite spring activity for kids?
Spring Science Resource
Ready for spring but need an all-in-one SPRING resource? This Spring Science & Non-Fiction unit includes science and non-fiction activities to teach about spring – lesson suggestions, activities, anchor charts, life cycles, crafts, reports, sorts, & more).
It includes lessons about rainbows, birds, ladybugs, plants, materials for writing a report about spring science experiments, and more!
Do you love this unit and want more? Check out the Spring Science Bundle, which includes five units on spring frogs, chickens, butterflies, and flowers.
Try the Butterfly Directed Drawing Today!
You can download and print the instructions for drawing a butterfly in your classroom during your art lesson!
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