Easy Spring Crafts & Activities for Kids

Now that spring has here, it’s the ideal time to introduce some exciting new activities into your classroom! ‘Easy Spring Crafts & Activities for Kids’ are loaded in this blog, which is easy to organize and will keep your students interested. Ideas for making spring a memorable and instructive season for your students are included, ranging from art projects to outdoor learning. Also check out these Easy 30+ Easter Crafts and activities.

Tissue paper Growing worms experiment

Have fun with ‘growing tissue paper worms’ to celebrate spring! With the help of this entertaining scientific experiment and craft, children can learn about capillary action as vibrant tissue paper “grows” when water is introduced. It’s an easy and entertaining way to make a colorful spring craft and learn about water absorption.

Blooming flowers Spring Activity

With a splash of color and a dash of science, welcome to spring! ‘Blooming Flowers’ is what we’re doing with a dropper, washable markers, and kitchen paper towels. With this easy exercise, children can see the wonders of capillary action as water percolates through the paper, producing vivid colors to bloom and merge like actual flowers. It’s an enjoyable, practical method to learn about the movement of water and the mixing of colors while creating lovely, spring-themed artwork.

Caterpillar in a bag- Mess free spring art

“Prepare yourself for a mess-free springtime adventure! We’re making cute caterpillars in a bag, which is the ideal project for young hands and vivid imaginations. With this ‘Caterpillar in a Bag’ painting activity, children can blend bright colors with their little fingers without having to deal with any messy cleanup. Inside a sealed bag, just crush, swirl, and watch as your caterpillar comes to life. It’s a fantastic way to explore color mixing and create a cheerful spring critter, all while keeping hands clean and happy!”

Bunny Fingerprint Silhouette art

Kids may engage their senses and develop fine motor skills with this adorable bunny fingerprint silhouette art. We’ll be making cute bunny silhouettes with tiny fingerprints on a colorful spring background. This activity offers a physical and sensory experience in addition to fostering creativity and color exploration. With painting, sensory play, and fine motor work all combined into one cute, bunny-filled craft, it’s the ideal way to celebrate the season.

Hyacinth Fingerprint Spring Craft

This amazing hyacinth flower craft is perfect for toddlers and preschoolers to make for a spring craft and art project. It looks awesome hung up on display too! This fine motor hyacinth flower fingerprint craft is just perfect for spring and summer is super fun and easy art activity for preschoolers and kindergartners.

Butterfly Letter Match

We’ve turned the kitchen paper roll and markers into a riveting science experiment that’s great for spring. Make colorful butterflies with secret letters, and sit back in awe as they spring to life using just a few drops of water! This isn’t a letter matching game; it’s a hands-on investigation of capillary action that will have children clamoring to unlock the secrets hidden in each butterfly’s wings. Look forward to a sweet combination of literacy, science, and springtime fun!

Chick Handprint Name Puzzle

Spring into learning with our precious Chick Handprint Name Puzzle! This do-it-yourself project takes the fun of handprint art and adds the challenge of a personalized puzzle. We’ll take your child’s handprint and turn it into a happy chick, then cut it up into popsicle stick pieces, each containing a letter of their name. It’s a great way to work on name recognition, fine motor skills, and letter order, all while making a cute, springtime keepsake. Prepare for a cheerful good time!”

Broccoli Stamped Cherry Blossom Art

Paint the beauty of spring with our Broccoli Stamped Cherry Blossom Tree Art! This interesting and engaging activity transforms an ordinary veggie into a creative utensil, enabling children to produce gorgeous cherry blossom trees from only a few drops of paint. By employing broccoli florets as stamps, we’ll construct lacy, speckled blossoms in the foreground of a painted tree trunk. It’s a great way to experiment with various art techniques, design a stunning spring landscape, and unlock the secret artistic possibilities of common objects. Be ready for a blooming good time!”

Sponge Caterpillar art for kids

Make a wiggly, colorful caterpillar with our easy Sponge Caterpillar Art! This playful activity employs rounded sponge circles to create cute, textured caterpillars. Simply dip the sponges in bright paints and dab them onto paper to create a happy line of segments. It’s a great way for little hands to experiment with color mixing and make a happy spring creature with a special, sponge-printed look.

Paper Plate Ladybug Craft

This paper plate ladybug craft is perfect for a spring day or summer camp activity or as a classroom project. You could easily work it into a homeschool lesson on bugs or simply have fun on a rainy day indoors. Looking for more Super Fun Bug crafts for preschoolers and kindergartener??

Spring Busy Book for Toddlers

This fun and super-hands-on Spring Busy Book: A Fun Activity Binder for Toddlers & Preschoolers, is a must have for every teacher and mother. Do check out these 30+Easter craft activities

Sponge stamped Chick art

Chirp, chirp! Spring your creativity with our Sponge Stamped Chick Art! A fun and simple activity that allows children to make cute fluffy chicks with just plain sponges. Paint the sponges yellow and stamp away to create a delightful flock of spring friends. It’s a great way to experiment with texture, color, and make a happy, chick-filled masterpiece.

Spring Sensory Bin

Dive into spring with a colorful and textural Spring Sensory Bin! We’re building a sensory paradise with green rice and noodles/spaghetti, just perfect for small hands to dig in. Imagine the sensation of the textured rice and slippery noodles, all in a happy spring green. This bin is a sensory treat, inviting exploration, imaginative play, and fine motor skills. Include some spring-themed toys or nature items, and watch your child experience the joys of the season through touch and play.

Sponge stamped Tulip flowers

Bring spring flowers inside with our Sponge Stamped Tulip Flowers! Just cut sponges into tulip forms, paint them in bright colors, and stamp away. It’s a great, simple way for children to make lovely tulip gardens, playing with color and texture with each press. Stamp, enjoy, and watch your spring garden grow!

Spring Words Activity for kids

Discover the magic of spring words through our engaging Kitchen Paper Towel activity! We’ve concealed spring words in paper towel folds that will be unveiled with a couple of drops of water. See the words materialize like magic, learning spring vocabulary and capillary action miracles along the way. It’s an exhilarating combination of discovery and surprise that makes spring word discovery pure magic!

Life Cycle Activities and Crafts for Spring

Are you looking for some amazing plant and animal life cycle crafts and activities for your classroom? I have 6 different life cycle printable crafts for preschoolers and kindergartners that will keep them engaged and teach them SO much about the world.

Rainbow in a bag

Chase the rainbow without the mess! Our ‘Rainbow in a Bag’ is a bright, mess-free activity for children to practice their fine motor skills. By squishing and swirling multi-colored paint within a sealed bag, they’ll make gorgeous rainbow designs. It’s a sensory treat that fosters creativity and builds little fingers, all while happy hands stay clean!”

Flower Pounding Art

Capture the delicate beauty of spring with Flower Pounding Art! This tactile and vibrant activity lets kids create stunning prints by gently hammering fresh flowers onto cardstock paper. Watch as the natural pigments release, leaving behind beautiful, organic patterns. It’s a fun and unique way to explore nature’s colors and create a lasting, floral masterpiece.

Flower in a bag

Bloom without the mess! Our ‘Flower in a Bag’ art activity lets kids create vibrant flower paintings by simply squishing and swirling paint inside a sealed bag. It’s a fantastic, mess-free way to explore color mixing and create beautiful floral designs, all while keeping little hands clean and happy!

Magic Name Caterpillar Spring Craft

Watch names come alive with our Magic Name Caterpillar! This engaging activity incorporates washable markers and kitchen tissue to make a delightful, customized science experiment. Children will enjoy watching their name come to life as if by magic when water is poured, bringing to light the secret letters on their own caterpillar. It’s an entertaining combination of name recognition and capillary action that makes learning a real magic experience.

Butterfly symmetry painting

Explore the symmetry of beauty with Butterfly Symmetry Painting! This activity will delight children to produce lovely butterfly art as they discover symmetry. They paint a single wing, fold the paper over, and reproduce the pattern for an instant duplicate of perfectly mirrored butterflies. An enjoyable artistic learning experience to master color blending, symmetry, and making beautiful, symmetrical pieces of art!

The HUNGRY Caterpillar Name Craft

Engage your young students with this super fun and instructive back-to-school activity! Our printable template of The Very Hungry Caterpillar Name Craft is based on the well-known children’s book The Very Hungry Caterpillar, offers kids an imaginative method to hone their name writing and letter identification abilities.

The Very Hungry Caterpillar Name Craft inspired by ERIC CARLE'S book, Back to school craft , Spring activity — The Very Hungry Caterpillar Name Craft inspired by ERIC CARLE’S book

Butterfly in a bag – Mess free art

Flutter into mess-free fun with our Butterfly in a Bag art! Just pour bright colors into a ziplock bag, seal it tight, and let the squishing begin. Children will enjoy watching the colors mix and swirl, creating gorgeous patterns that morph into a gorgeous butterfly. It’s a hands-on and visually stimulating activity that promotes creativity and fine motor skills, all while keeping hands clean. Be prepared to create a masterpiece without the mess!”

Tulip magic name

“Watch names sprout like spring tulips! Our Tulip Magic Name project employs washable markers and kitchen paper to achieve a delightful surprise. Children will enjoy having their names magically brought to life among colorful tulip shapes when they add water. It’s a playful and exciting way to intermingle name recognition with an element of science, so learning is a blooming good time!

Sponge Butterfly painting

“Give your butterflies a one-of-a-kind, textured appearance with Sponge Butterfly Painting! This easy and entertaining activity employs sponges to produce lovely, patterned butterfly wings. Simply dip sponges in bright paints and stamp them onto paper to create colorful, textured patterns.

Planting Flower Sight words activity

Grow your learning with our Planting Flower Sight Words activity! Turn colorful paper handprints into blooming flowers with clothespins and playdough. Every handprint is able to hold a sight word, letter, number, or any concept you’re wanting to practice. This interactive activity not only builds fine motor skills but also makes learning fun and exciting. See your garden of knowledge bloom, making sight word practice (or any subject) a wonderful spring adventure!”

I SPY Spring Sensory Bin

Spring into sensory play with our ‘I Spy’ Spring Sensory Bin! We’ve put together a bright, tactile activity with green rice and sunny corn kernels. It’s a quiet, interactive bin that encourages little hands to search, dig, and find treasures. It’s an ideal activity for stimulating the senses, practicing observation skills, and inspiring imaginative play, all while embracing the fresh, green hues of spring.”

Potato Stamped TULIP painting

Blossom with creativity using our Potato Stamped Tulip Painting! A fun and simple activity transforms ordinary potatoes into colorful tulip-shaped stamps. Simply cut tulip shapes into halves of potatoes, dip them into bright paints, and stamp them away. Children will enjoy designing their own colored tulip gardens, discovering texture and pattern with each press. It’s a charming way to create the vibrancy of spring flowers with an easy, manual method.

Raindrop Ten frame Counting

Raindrop ten frame counting mats Math Center is loaded with fun, hands on Weather themed activities to help your students learn math concepts! This Raindrop Math freebie can be used with play-dough to practice and learn ten frames for numbers 0-10. Use this engaging Math activity to practice Ten frame counting.

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You can laminate these and use playdough for longer durability. This activity is perfect for small groups, literacy centers or morning bins! These activities are designed for preschool, pre-k, or kindergarten.

Rainbow Spring Flower Art

Make a colorful, tie-dye rainbow flower using only kitchen towel! Easy and captivating, this activity turns plain paper towels into gorgeous, multicolored flowers. Folding, coloring with washable markers, and dipping in water will make kids experience the wonder of color dissolving and produce individual, tie-dye designs. A delightful and simple experience to discover color blending and make a gorgeous, rainbow-colored flower that embodies spring.

FREE Spring Flower Color Match

Flowers are blooming and the birds are singing, spring is in the air! This spring bring some fun to your literacy centers in a whole new way with this Spring Flower Color Match… It’s helps students in color recognition and simultaneously works on their fine motor skills.

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All you need is Tweezer, pom poms and laminated flowers( this freebie). What’s exciting is that this color recognition center can be used in multiple ways. Instead of Pom poms, Playdough can be used too, to give a sensory touch to the activity.

Fine motor Leaf cutting Activity

Refine those scissor skills with our Fine Motor Leaf Cutting Activity! This activity is a great way for children to hone cutting along lines and curves, with leaf-shaped templates. It’s ideal for developing fine motor muscles and hand-eye coordination. See them create simple paper leaves into complex designs, gaining confidence and dexterity with each snip.”

FREE Daily Weather Reporting Chart

This Daily Weather chart is a great Calendar time activity. Simply Print and Laminate this daily weather recording chart to record the day’s weather and the outside temperature. Just use a clothespin to mark the weather around the edges and on the thermometer. Isn’t it Super Fun!!!

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State what the weather is and give a prediction based on what they are seeing outside. (Are there dark clouds?… It might rain… etc.) A great learning tool for my kids.

Digging Worms Sensory Bin

Sink into squishy, wiggly fun with our Digging Worms Sensory Bin! We’ve developed a tactile adventure through the use of fluffy shaving cream and slippery spaghetti worms. Children will enjoy digging and discovering, uncovering hidden ‘worms’ within the cool, cloud-like shaving cream. It’s a wonderful sensory experience that invites exploration and imaginative play, ideal for a spring day of messy, yet clean, fun!

Potato Stamped Butterfly

Let your imagination soar with Potato Stamped Butterflies! This easy and playful activity turns plain potatoes into special butterfly-shaped stamps. Carve butterfly wing patterns into potato halves, dip them in bright paints, and stamp to it!

Coffee Filter Butterfly craft

“Turn plain coffee filters into fluttering, colorful butterflies! This old favorite activity is a great way for children to learn about color mixing and make gorgeous, airy butterflies. By dyeing coffee filters with washable markers or liquid watercolors and adding water, they’ll see the magic of color diffusion. A quick pinch and twist when dry forms the body of the butterfly, producing a light and lovely creation that symbolizes spring.

Spring Scavenger hunt -FREEBIE

Get your students excited this March and April with this fun and engaging FREE Spring themed scavenger hunt! This SPRING scavenger hunt activity is a great way to engage your students. Perfect fun Friday activity for kids…Spring brain breaks!

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Do not miss to grab this spring nature freebie for some great outdoor time with your young ones.

Bug themed DIY Painted Pots

Add a touch of buggy whimsy to your windowsill or garden with Bug-Themed DIY Painted Pots! This playful and creative project allows children to turn plain terracotta pots into charming bug habitats for their beloved plants. With bright paints and a sprinkle of imagination, they can paint sweet bug motifs, from ladybugs and bees to caterpillars and butterflies..

Rainbow Build it and Count it -FREEBIE

Rainbow Number tower, Rainbow Build it and count it, Rainbow Math , Spring Activities is super cute and easy to prep March /April activity. This rainbow template Math is perfect to use with duplo, snap cubes, bear counters, unifix cubes, legos and playdough and many more manipulative. Also check out this Rainbow Math and Literacy Centers