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.

Did you know that October is Squirrel Awareness Month? I didn’t know we needed more awareness of these little creatures, but let’s take it as a sign to learn more about squirrels!

Let’s start with some fun facts via Kids Konnect: did you know there are five subfamilies and more that 280 species of squirrels? The smallest are pygmy squirrels and the largest, the Bhutan giant flying squirrel, can be longer that 4 feet (1.2 meters).

Tree squirrels can climb down trees so fast because their ankles can rotate 180 degrees, allowing them to grab the tree bark as they go down. While most squirrels don’t survive their first year of life, they can live five to 10 years in the wild and squirrels have been known to live up to 20 years in captivity!

Rhythms of Play has more fun facts and tips for observing squirrels if you want to add some real life nature to your nature study.

We always like to start these collections with life cycle and parts of the animal printables, so let’s grab the squirrel life cycle an parts of a squirrel worksheets from Montessori Nature. (It doesn’t look like these are free any more but they have a whole unit study on squirrels you can buy that includes life cycle and parts activities, characteristics of different kinds of squirrels, a printable poster, information about predators and more.)

Grab the squirrel lapbook printable (free with email address) from Homeschool Share to learn the parts of a squirrel, where they live, what they eat, whether they hibernate and more. There’s also a nut taste test printable, a place for making observations about squirrels, life cycle of an oak tree, games and more.

Simple Everyday Mom has some cute squirrel themed worksheets including tracing the letter s, labeling the parts of a squirrel and a letter s maze. She also has more activity pages with a squirrel theme, including matching, a more traditional maze and a counting and graphing activity.

Work on letter recognition with this squirrel and acorn game printable from Teaching Mama. I love the idea of hiding the letters in a fall themed sensory bin for kids to find, identify and match to the letter on the worksheet.

For older kids you can do this “if I were a squirrel” writing prompt from Lesson Planet.

And throw in a little counting with these squirrel and acorn tens frame printables from JDaniel4’s Mom, which you can use to count real acorns or any other little fall themed thing you have handy.

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