Easy-Set-Up Spring Activities for Toddlers

Looking for some fun activities for your toddler to help celebrate spring? These are easy set up, fun activities for rainy (or, let’s be honest, snowy) days with a seasonal theme.

Welcome to Mommyhood has some suggestions for easy sorting activities using insect shapes and an easy tong practice activity.

Rainbow-colored paint is just about all you need to make these rainbow paintings from Crafty Mama in Me. Cut out a little pot of gold and throw in some St. Patrick’s Day stickers if you want to make them for that holiday, or just make a rainbow for spring.

And don’t miss the sweet butterfly ideas for toddlers from the Kavanaugh Report. Those butterfly stickers from Target were a great find!

How do you celebrate spring with little ones? I’d love to hear your ideas!

Check out these insect activity kits and these Insect bug keepers

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Activities for The Snowy Day

I’m in deep denial about the fact that new year is almost upon us again! It’s been the fastest and the longest year at the same time, and I can look back and see some good things as well as some things I wish had gone differently.

Doing a year in review with your kids — whether in the classroom or at home — is a good way to capture some of their memories and the things they really liked about the year gone by.

There are a lot of different printable year in review worksheets you can use if you want to make this super easy. Here are links to a few (often part of larger posts about NYE celebrations with kids that are worth a read, too):

Teach Beside Me has lots of fun printables fro the end of the year, including a year in review that covers favorite memory, funniest memory and the best book they read, among other topics.
NurtureStore‘s version has space for a self-portrait and prompts like favorite toy, best day out this year and future dream job.
Remember favorites, their “best idea” of the year and have room for setting goals for next year with this one from The Keele Deal.
The year in review from Yes We Made This has room for drawing or writing and includes things like something they learned, a memory they made and a place they visited.

Of course you could pretty easily make your own year in review for the whole family to do that asks questions based on what you most want to remember. (Favorite video game? Best friend? Favorite family memory?)

And if after the year in review you’re ready to look ahead a bit, Mrs. Merry has new year’s resolution printables to inspired kids to look ahead and set goals for things they want to try. You can totally fill this one out as a grownup, too.

[Photo: Mrs. Merry]

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