Spring Printable Learning Activities

I know it’s been spring for a little while already, but when the weather starts warming I feel like we should just keep celebrating that with all the spring activities and projects. These spring printables will give you some easy ideas for things to do at home or in the classroom.

If the weather is nice, go on a bug hunt with this printable from The Soccer Mom Blog. These are all insects that should be pretty easy for kids to find in the backyard or at the park. Want to learn more about bugs? Check out my post all about bees!

You can plant actual flowers, or you can play at planting flowers with this playdough activity from Fun with Mama. It uses the flower TOOB, which doesn’t seem to be available on Amazon, but these flowers are similar enough that you can still use her printables.

The printable worksheet pack from Kool Kids Games includes the life cycle of a butterfly, symmetry drawing, shadow matching, color by word family, counting, cutting practice, word sounds and more. It’s aimed at kids ages 3-7, and you can download it when you enter your email address on their site.

Practice tracing (words and images) and coloring pictures with these printables from Itsy Bitsy Fun. Images include a daisy, tulip, bouquet of flowers and a butterfly, each with the word written underneath to trace.

Speaking of flowers, Homeschool Giveaways has a printable parts of a flower worksheet (one with word back and one without), a build a flower page and a life cycle of a flower flip book printable. These would be great to add to a unit study on flowers or pollinators.

Life with Mama has a printable book for little ones to read, count and color that includes spring images, different color names and counting from one to ten.

And if you need some printables for early finishers, to keep in your art area or just to have something fun for a rainy day, check out the spring dot to dot pages from In the Playroom, spring color by number printables from The Typical Mom, and more dot to dot projects from 1 plus 1 plus 1 equals 1.

Growing Up Ladybug and How to Become a Butterfly are both by Stepanka Sekaninova and illustrated by Linh Dao, and they came out at the same time and are on similar themes, so let’s look at them together.

Growing Up Ladybug is narrated by Mariella, a seven-spot ladybug. She talks about the parts of a ladybug, where they live, different kinds of ladybugs, why humans love them, their defenses against predators and the life cycle of a ladybug.

The drawings are cute if not always scientifically accurate, it’s not in such a way that’s likely to confuse kids (who probably already know that ladybug mamas don’t push their larval babies around in strollers, for instance.

It’s a good general description of the life cycle of a lady bug and why we like having them around.

About the book: 32 pages, hardcover. Published 2026 by Albatross Media. Suggested retail price $16.95.

Similarly, How to Become a Butterfly covers the life cycle of a butterfly, starting with caterpillars eating burning nettle leaves. (Here Amanda is the narrator.) The book talks about a few of the more than 18,000 daytime butterflies in the world as well as other creatures that live in the meadow (there’s that ladybug again, along with crickets, bees and other bugs).

It also covers some of the enemies of caterpillars like wasps and spiders, and the defenses that caterpillars use to try to prevent being eaten. It illustrates how caterpillars grow and change as they molt and prepare to pupate, and what a caterpillar looks like before and while it is forming its chrysalis. And while the book uses the word metamorphasis it doesn’t really talk about what happens between the caterpillar forming a chrysalis and the butterfly hatching.

This butterfly is a peacock butterfly, and once it hatches the book covers the parts of a butterfly and the life cycle. It also talks about nocturnal moths (though it says nocturnal butterflies are “usually called moths” when moths are actually a different species) and what butterflies do at night.

I’m maybe a little hard on this book because my daughter is a butterfly expert from way back, but it is still cute and good for the very basic basics of the butterfly life cycle.

Both books would be fun additions to your bookshelf for younger kids starting to learn about different animals or who have an interest in insects.

About the book: 32 pages, hardcover. Published 2026 by Albatross Media. Suggested retail price $16.95.

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