You can still make time for spring activities. It isn’t too late! While you and your family may feel a bit pent up from the Coronavirus #stayathome orders, planning spring activities helps everyone to look forward to the end of dreary days.
Spring activities to bring sunshine to your day
After a long winter, spring just opens up the kid in all of us! Letting the kids bounce out the door with some convenient and fun activities helps even the kids who don’t know what to do have fun.
Even when the spring storms drive us indoors, there is plenty to see and do from our homes to celebrate spring and get mud between your hands and toes!
Make a backyard picnic
Plan a picnic in your own yard or patio. Pull out all the stops. Lay out a tablecloth, and make some potato salad and sandwiches. Create some simple family games and make a video!
Make a #stayhome parade
Gather up the kids, and decorate their bikes, tricycles, and wagons to make your own #stayhome parade! Wave to others from a distance and make it a fun activity!
Plant flowers
Get your flower seeds out and either toss them into the yard or plant them in a garden. Teach the kids the art of growing with this one. Catch the spring rains and pull some weeds!
Pick wildflowers
Find areas of wildflowers in your yard and pick the best ones. Add them to your table displays, or dry them to preserve them.
Download a wildflower color book
Try the National Park Service’s free wildflower color book. Help the kids find out which ones you have in your own yard.
Make flower crafts
There still remains plenty of flower crafts on Pinterest. Decorate your home on those rainy days with flower crafts that are fun to make.
Brew sun tea
One of the funnest things to make is sun tea. Grab a super large jar, add tea bags with a lid, and place it in the sun. Depending on how hot it is, you will have freshly brewed tea with an hour or so.
Play in the mud
Don’t have a sandbox? Play in the mud instead! Serve up mud pies and build roads in the mud. Just make sure to hose them off before they go inside!
Color the outdoors
Download more color pages from the US Forest Service on this link with the wildflowers, Smoky The Bear and Leaves of common trees. Check your state parks and wildlife service for more plants and animals in your area.
Take photos
Take spring photos of wildflowers and animals. Even family shots of kids and spring playtime bring out the best pictures. While this season of illness makes a lot of things dark, there are so many things to be thankful for!
Dry some flowers
Pick some flowers in your own yard! Press or dry flowers for the year. Pick a few choice specimens, tie them with a string and hang them upside down, or press them in-between books.
Raise some baby chicks
Baby chicks are super cute. You can find baby chicks for sale at your local feed store or online. But, don’t forget about planning your chicken coop! Baby chicks do grow up and become chickens.
Watch the birds
Encourage your kids to watch the birds from the windows of your home. Get out a pair of binoculars if you have some. Set out feeders in a good location for bird viewing. You never know when a mommy bird will make a nest and have babies!
Make a bird feeder
There are tons of great ways to make bird feeders to hang in your yard. Get the kids involved with some great bird feeder projects on Pinterest. Then watch and wait for the birds. Don’t forget your binoculars!
Start seedlings
If you live in a cold climate, start your seeds indoors and watch them grow! Help your kids water and care for their seedlings to plant outdoors when the temperatures climb above freezing.
Even more spring activities…
Have you found one yet? Keep reading for more spring activities to keep the kids busy and build memories.
Plant a garden
Plan your seeds now, if you haven’t already. Order online from several seed companies, choosing the best quality seeds for good germination and growth.
Take a walk
Have you ever walked around your neighborhood? The pandemic is a great time to do this since there are fewer cars on the road. If you live in a nice area or a small town, walk to the library, park or store. Take the wagon and water bottles. Toss in some snacks into someone’s backpack and take a stroll down Main Street.
Start a worm farm
What is spring without worms! Get the soil nice and fertilized in your garden with worms. Start a worm farm and add some to your garden. Use the compost from your farm and grow some super great veggies!
Make garden markers
Planted your garden and need to know where you planted what? Get the kids decorating with these great garden marker ideas. You can use plastic spoons, popsicle sticks, twigs, painted rocks and more!
Make a spring mobile
Can’t go to the park? Print out this spring mobile, cut and hang on a paper plate or hanger. Teach your kids about spring with this fun and easy mobile (FREE)!
Raise some bunnies
But, be careful! I heard they multiply! What little girl (or boy) wouldn’t love to raise a bunny and learn how to be responsible at the same time!
Work in the yard
Who doesn’t love the smell of freshly cut grass on a nice sunny day? Get the family helping out with raking and pulling weeds. Plus, it just looks nice around your home.
Splash in the puddles
Are you experiencing rain storms in your area? Get the kids outside after the storm and play with them in the puddles. Not having rain? Make your own water puddles in your yard, complete with mud pies.
Sidewalk chalk
Hand your kids some sidewalk chalk and send them outdoors to draw their creations or make games on the drive. Help them make and play chalk games that will entertain them for hours!
Make liquid chalk
You can make your own liquid chalk to squirt or spray on the sidewalk or driveway. Make pretty scenes or play hop scotch. Hose it off after you get a nice picture! 😉
Catch butterflies
Get a butterfly net and go out and catch some butterflies. Take along a jar and see how many different kinds you can find. When in doubt about the species, Google it!
Make a butterfly mobile
Help your kids understand the butterfly cycle with this easy to print and cut mobile. Learning how caterpillars become butterflies fascinates every kid!
Capture insects
Spring also brings out the bugs. Send your kids out with some jars and magnifying glasses to find and capture super cool bugs. Kids love finding out the names of all the different bugs outside!
Spring Scavenger game
Make a spring scavenger game for the kids to find outdoors. Send them on a hunt for leaves, bugs, flowers, grasses or nests to bring back and share with each other.
Climb a tree
When the spring sunshine comes out, some kids love to climb trees! If you are an adventurous Mom, this may be you too! Find the best climbing tree you can find.;-)
Stoke up the grill
Have you been cooped up too long this winter? Get the grill going for a cookout at home. Can’t invite anyone over? Set up a video outdoors with the family and call your relatives and friends.
Outdoor sporting games
This depends on your family’s preferences, but play basketball, volleyball or badminton in your own backyard. Use what you have and make it a girls against boys competition, or a kids against adults tournament. Either way, everyone gets to blow off steam and have some fun.
Collect rocks
Find the best and most interesting rocks and paint them for gifts! Find a stream bed, the beach or other natural place where good rocks are found. Classify them or paint them for fun!
Make a wind chime
Choose materials from the dollar store and make your own wind chime to hang outside your doorway. Grab some beads, old spoons and other odd junk to make your own creative chime sculpture.
Decorate Easter eggs
Don’t forget to grab those Paas dyes, vinegar and eggs to dye your eggs brilliant colors. Let the kids pick their designs and then create their own coloring for this year’s spring bucket list.
Try natural egg dying
Want to avoid the chemicals used in egg dyes? Boil a pot of red onions or cabbage to make a nice strong dye. Collect leaves and use an old piece of panty hose to hold them on the eggs. Dye them eggs in the boiling water, cool and remove the leaves.
Set up an egg hunt
Who says it has to be Easter to have an egg hunt? Fill plastic eggs with toys and stickers, then let the kids hide eggs for each other!
Play mini-golf
Set up a mini golf course in your own yard. Use whatever you have on hand to make a course, then use croquet mallets or golf sticks to putt around your own course.
Fly a kite
Are the wind currents near you just right for kite flying? Make or buy your own kite to fly on a nice breezy day. Just be careful of any power lines around your home!
Have an outdoor tea party
Let your girls gather up their friends for a nice spring tea party outdoors on the grass or patio. Make it a special event and make some scones or cookies to serve along with a cup of tea!
Outdoor reading
Love to read outdoors? Add Spring time reading to your spring bucket list before the bugs and heat become unbearable make a nice relaxing activity. Spread out a blanket and some pillows and read.
Make an outdoor home theater
Want to get the family outdoors for a different activity. Make a sheet screen for a movie projector. Then, create a pallet of pillows in a swimming pool or sandbox so the whole family can comfortably watch a movie under the stars!
Star gazing
Set up some chairs and watch the night sky outdoors. Things are much quieter right now, so gaze up at the night sky finding the spring constellations and planets visible with the naked eye.
Volunteer
Volunteering has changed with the Pandemic, but you can still make face masks to donate, or collect food and toiletry items for those in need. The COVID-19 Facebook page even has a place to ask for help. Look for those who need it right now and see if you can give a helping hand from afar!
Craft suncatchers
Make some spring suncatchers for your garden or to put in your windows with the kids. Sun catchers distract unwanted animals and just look pretty in the sunlight. Use anything from clear plastic beads to old CD discs.
Make your own paints
Mix up your own paint from things you have in the pantry. Put them in a spray bottle or water gun and spray them on a piece of paper. Then immortalize your spring activity with a frame.
Make an outdoor playground
Build a sandbox. Make a hop scotch walk. Create a whole playground from cheap and upcycled items so the kids have an improved place to play.
Dig a pond.
Get started with some digging and dig a hole big enough for a small pond. Line it with plastic and fill it with rocks, plants and water. Get some ducks, frogs or fish to entertain everyone for hours!
Build a dog house
Get the wood delivered to your house and build your puppy a nice dog house to shelter him from the spring storms and heat.
Build a fort
The all time favorite of kids is to build your own fort or get Dad to help build a tree house. Use scraps of wood or new with some creative ingenuity! Spring activity to make memories for a lifetime!
Make crayon rubbings
Send the kids outdoors to collect natural items like flowers, bark, rocks, leaves, grass, or moss. Then hand them a piece of clean white paper and let them make crayon rubbings over each item. Doing this shows them the uniqueness of each plant part they color over.
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