After a long winter of staying cosy indoors, spring is the perfect season to get active and creative with your preschooler. Whether you’re after seasonal art projects, sensory play, or ways to get outdoors and explore nature, here are 15 fun spring activities for preschoolers that will keep everyone happily busy.
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Getting outdoors in spring with your preschooler is lots of fun — there are flowers and baby animals to spot, and puddles to jump in! Here are some fun spring activities for toddlers and preschoolers to enjoy.
Spring Activities For Preschoolers
#1. Learn Spring Songs And Rhymes
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Lets Play Music have a lovely collection of songs suitable for preschool children. Songs and rhymes about bunnies, lambs and chicks always go down well with young children.
There are also songs perfect for circle time and counting, and for incorporating puppets — there’s sure to be something for everyone.
#2. Create Colourful Tissue Paper Butterflies
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This tissue paper butterfly craft from In The Playroom is a great follow-on activity from reading The Very Hungry Caterpillar and learning about the life cycle of a caterpillar.
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#3. Create & Decorate an Easter Tree
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Whether you buy an Easter egg tree to decorate or start from scratch, this activity from Red Ted Art is great for the whole family.
Wrap up warm, pop the wellies on, and head out to collect some twigs to create your own Easter or spring decoration. Paint your twigs white, bind them together, and enjoy a craft day with whatever materials you have to hand.
#4. Create a Spring Collage
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Artsy Craftsy Mom got busy with lots of different materials to create an interesting spring collage. Leave your preschooler to get creative and make their own collage to give to family and friends.
#5. Yarn Wrapped Tulips
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These yarn-wrapped tulips from School Time Snippets are great for developing fine motor skills as well as learning about spring flowers. They look adorable in little vases!
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#6. Spring Sensory Bottle
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A sensory bottle is a lovely way to explore the seasons. Kids Craft Room show how to create your own spring sensory bottle, which is great for encouraging children’s exploration and enjoyment of the season.
#7. Create a Spring/Easter Themed Sensory Box
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We love sensory boxes, and Learning and Exploring Through Play share a wonderful one for hands-on learning and exploring. Children can explore textures and cause and effect while getting lost in their imagination.
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#8. Spring Garden Play Dough
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When it’s raining and too cold to venture outdoors, bring the outside in with play dough. Picklebums have a range of play dough mats to bring your creations to life.
#9. Create Spring Time Bouquets
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This Moms and Crafters project to create spring bouquets is a perfect all-rounder for anyone who loves getting out and exploring.
Go on a nature walk with your preschooler and collect weeds, grasses, sticks and leaves, then create a spring bouquet. They use flower arranging foam, but homemade play dough works well as a base too.
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#10. Fine Motor Activity — What Is Hiding In The Grass?
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If you’re looking for a fun activity to help develop your child’s fine motor skills, this project from School Time Snippets could be perfect.
Using paper cut into strips for “grass”, supervise your preschooler as they cut the grass back to reveal what’s hiding underneath. You could hide spring-related pictures, or photos of family and friends.
#11. Process Art Project — Painting With Bugs
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This simple painting activity from Frogs and Snails and Puppy Dog Tails explores the different marks that different insects make, and makes for a fun process art project.
#12. Nature Art
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Danya Banya share a gorgeous activity using nature as a canvas, transformed with beautiful colours. You could even go on to use the painted nature items to create a nature mobile.
#13. Caterpillar Pom Poms
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Artsy Craftsy Mom show us how to make caterpillar pom poms. As well as being visually attractive and tactile, they’d make a great addition to small world play!
#14. Springtime Seed Hunting
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One Time Through went collecting and storing seeds to explore later, even planting some of what they found. This is another great activity for getting your preschooler outdoors and enjoying what nature has to offer.
#15. Imaginative Small World Play
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Picklebums set up a simple yet effective small world using bugs, ponds and nature. Very inspiring!
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Over to you now — do you have any other favourite spring activities for preschoolers? Let us know in the comments below.
FAQs
What are good spring activities for preschoolers?
Simple sensory play, seasonal crafts like tissue paper butterflies or yarn-wrapped tulips, and outdoor nature walks are all great ways to enjoy spring with a preschooler. Most need only basic craft supplies you already have at home.
How can I get my preschooler interested in nature in spring?
Take them on short walks to spot flowers, baby animals and puddles. Simple activities like seed hunting, nature art, or building a small world with sticks and stones help children connect with the season in a hands-on way.
Do spring activities for preschoolers need to be expensive?
No — most of the ideas here use everyday materials like paper, play dough, tissue paper and things collected outdoors, so they’re budget-friendly as well as fun.
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