Spring is such a refreshing and exciting time in the classroom, filled with new growth, warmer weather, and plenty of opportunities for hands-on learning! As preschool and kindergarten teachers, we know that spring is the perfect season to bring in activities that engage students, reinforce skills, and celebrate the season. That’s why having a variety of fun and meaningful spring activities for kids is so important. In this post, I’ve rounded up over 30 of my favorite spring resources, crafts, games, and more that will keep your little learners excited, while helping them strengthen important literacy, math, and fine motor skills all season long!

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Spring Activities for Kids: Centers

Centers are a fun and engaging way to keep your little learners focused, as the days get warmer and the wiggles increase. These spring activities for kids provide hands-on opportunities to review essential math and literacy skills, while keeping learning playful and interactive.

March Centers for Kindergarten

With themes like basketball, St. Patrick’s Day, rainbows, and more, your little learners will love rotating through the 10 math and 10 literacy centers in this March kindergarten centers pack.

April Centers for Kindergarten

Get ready for April with these 20 April centers for kindergarten, featuring 10 spring-themed math activities and 10 literacy activities.

May Centers for Kindergarten

Before summer arrives, wrap up the school year with these 20 May centers, including 10 math and 10 literacy activities.

Spring Escape Room Centers

In addition to the traditional centers, add a day of mysterious fun! Students work together to solve The Case of the Criminal Critter as they complete 6 or 8 spring-themed centers and challenges, eliminating suspects to discover who stole the gardener’s seeds.

Head to this post to learn more about this spring escape room!

Spring Activities for Kids: Fine Motor Activities

Tame the morning chaos, while strengthening fine motor skills, with these engaging fine motor morning tub activities. In addition to morning work, they can also be used as centers or with early finishers.

March Fine Motor Activities

Review addition and subtraction, patterns, number bonds, CVC words, ABC order, and more with these March fine motor activities.

Head to this post to see these fine motor spring activities for kids in action!

April Fine Motor Activities

With these April fine motor activities, students practice 1:1 counting, shape recognition, patterns, syllables, digraphs, rhyming, and more!

Check out this post to see each of the April fine motor morning tubs!

May Fine Motor Activities

Review kindergarten skills like beginning digraphs, constructing sentences, subtracting within 10, and 1:1 counting with these May fine motor activities.

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Spring Activities for Kids: Early Finisher Activities

Keep your fast finishers engaged during those warmer spring months with these spring fast finisher file folder games!

March Early Finisher Activities

These March early finisher activities feature 20 file folder games, including 10 math and 10 literacy activities that students can complete independently.

April Early Finisher Activities

Students can grab one of these April early finisher activities to review 1:1 counting, subtracting on a number line, nouns, CVC words, and more!

May Early Finisher Activities

As the end of the school year nears, early finishers may be on the rise. Keep them busy with these meaningful May fast finisher activities!

Spring Activities for Kids: St. Patrick’s Day Activities

St. Patrick’s Day is a fun holiday to kick off spring! From lucky four-leaf clovers to clever leprechauns, enjoy these festive spring activities for St. Patrick’s Day.

How to Catch a Leprechaun Writing Craft

Have some fun devising a plan to catch the sneaky little leprechaun with this simple-to-assemble “How To Catch a Leprechaun” craft and procedural writing activity!

For step-by-step instructions on using this spring activity in your classroom, head to this post!

St. Patrick’s Day Escape Room Activities

Your little leprechauns will love solving “The Case of the Hidden Gold” St. Patrick’s Day escape room, while they review important math and literacy skills. Students will receive clues and narrow down the suspects, as they attempt to unveil which tricky leprechaun has stolen the gold!

Learn more here!

Digital St. Patrick’s Day Escape Room

Prefer a paperless option for your St. Patrick’s Day escape room? Try these digital St. Patrick’s Day activities, featuring 4 math and 4 literacy challenges available in PowerPoint, Google Slides, and Seesaw.

Digital St. Patrick’s Day Games

Speaking of digital, try these 6 no-prep St. Patrick’s Day games your students will love. Play Guess Who, go on a scavenger hunt, complete a directed drawing, and more!

Ten Lucky Leprechauns

After reading Ten Lucky Leprechauns, have some fun with these FREE Ten Lucky Leprechauns math activities!

For a full list of St. Patrick’s Day activities for kids, head to this post!

Spring Activities for Kids: Easter Activities

Easter is one of the biggest spring holidays, so of course I want to share plenty of fun spring activities for kids, including Easter crafts, centers, games, and more!

Easter Gross Motor Activities

Keep spring fever at bay with these egg-citing Easter movement and brain break activities! Just fill plastic eggs with these FREE Easter movement cards and let students pick one when the class needs to get their wiggles out.

Mosaic Easter Egg Craft

Strengthen fine motor skills, as students cut and glue colorful construction paper onto their Easter egg, with this simple and fun Easter egg mosaic craft.

Easter Egg Pattern Craft

This Easter egg pattern craft is another great activity for building fine motor skills, while also giving students a chance to practice patterning.

Easter Egg Alphabet Centers

These FREE Easter egg alphabet centers are sure to add just enough magic to keep your preschool and kindergarten students engaged, without them realizing they are actually practicing letter recognition!

All About Rabbit Activities

Whether or not your district celebrates Easter, this rabbit craft is a great spring activity with no direct reference to the holiday. Students will learn all about rabbits with these 22 engaging rabbit activities.

Easter Escape Room Activities

Celebrate Easter, while reviewing math and literacy skills, with The Case of the Lost Eggs Easter Escape Room! Students complete 6 to 8 different challenges, eliminating suspects to discover who stole the eggs.

Head to this post to see these escape room spring activities in action!

Digital Easter Escape Room

Prefer a completely no-prep approach to your Easter escape room? Grab these digital escape room activities, featuring 4 literacy and 4 math challenges.

Digital Easter Games

Speaking of digital, check out these no-prep digital Easter and spring games for a fun classroom celebration!

Spring Activities for Kids: Earth Day Activities

Earth Day is one of those holidays that always seems to sneak up on us. Don’t let that happen this year! Choose one of these two Earth Day spring activities for kids, and be sure to grab the freebie at the bottom of each post.

Earth Day Tissue Paper Craft

Grab some blue and green tissue paper plus some glue to create this super simple Earth Day craft! Add an “Earth Day Promise” to the craft with the FREE writing prompt at the bottom of this post!

Earth Day Marble Paint Craft

Prefer paint over tissue paper? No problem! Have some fun with this marble paint craft. Then, add the free “Earth Day Promise” to the bottom of your creation.

Spring Activities for Kids: Mother’s Day Activities

Mother’s Day will be here before you know it. Celebrate mom, grandma, or any special loved with with these Mother’s Day activities!

Mother’s Day Tile Coasters

Create these hand-drawn Mother’s Day tile coasters using one of the four tile templates included in this resource.

Find the full step-by-step tutorial here!

Mother’s Day Gift Idea

In addition to the Mother’s Day tile coasters, discover how to make Mother’s Day extra special with a foldable card or printable questionnaire in this post.

Spring Activities for Kids: Spring Crafts

Beyond the holiday crafts mentioned above, here are a few extra spring-themed crafts your kids will love! They’re simple, hands-on, and perfect for building those fine motor skills.

Butterfly Life Cycle Craft

Nothing says spring like butterflies! Explore the life cycle of a butterfly with this pasta butterfly craft. It’s an interactive way to review each stage, build vocabulary, and strengthen fine motor skills!

Rainbow Craft

This rainbow craft is fun, colorful, and easy to make! Plus, your preschool and kindergarten students can practice their scissor skills as they snip each colored strip into smaller pieces.

More Spring Activities for Kids

If you loved the butterfly life cycle craft, you will love these FREE butterfly life cycle activities!

Spring is a great time to work on opinion writing! Use the suggested texts “Red Is Best” and “The Day the Crayons Quit” with this 10 day unit on constructing an opinion!

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