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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Shark Week generally happens in July, but any time is a good time to learn more about sharks.

First, start with some fun whale facts like these from Kids Craft Room. Here I learned about the dwarf lantern shark, which is the smallest shark and only grows to about 6-8 inches (about 15-20 cm) long. It also emits light. How cool is that?

Natural Beach Living has some great printable shark information guides, where kids can learn about different kinds of sharks, match the facts to the pictures, or print out doubles and do a shark memory game.

Living Life an Learning has some great shark activity pages including the parts of a shark, types of sharks, a crossword puzzle and more. Also check out their parts of a shark and word scramble download, and a life cycle worksheet.

Learn about how sharks float with this great activity from JDaniel4’s Mom.

Need more facts about sharks? This fact pact from The WOLFe PACK on Teacher Pay Teachers includes fact sheets, a printable flip book, informational text, vocabulary, comprehension questions and more.

Living Montessori Now has a great collection of shark themed activities with a Montessori inspired twist. You’ll find a shark roll and cover, shark phonics and lots more shark activities Deb has collected from all over the Internet.

Remember the “Sharknado” movie? A Few Shortcuts turned the combination of sharks and tornadoes into a fun science activity. You’ll need a bottle connector for this project but otherwise should have everything you need on hand. Use their template to make your sharks out of aluminum foil. So fun!

You can also do some shark themed coloring with these coloring pages from Encouraging Moms at Home. Or make a cool 3D shark with this template from korkotak. And there are tons of different shark crafts collected in this post from Kids Activities Blog.

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