Spring to It: Check Out This Springtime Jam and Other Creative Learning Activities

Spring has sprung and singing and reading is so much fun! Your little ones with twist and shout to the rollicking springtime jam (found in an old Mailbox Magazine)  that will ring in the bounties of springtime glory.

Now It's Spring (Tune: "Up on the Housetop")

Winter is gone and now it's spring
Flowers bloom and robins sing
The sunshine is warm
It's nice and bring
The butterflies are such a pretty sight
Spring, spring, spring
Now it's here
Spring, spring, spring
Lots of cheer
Winter is gone and now it's spring
Let's shout hooray
We're glad it's spring.

Extension of song:

• Use stick puppets to re-enact the song 
• Create a flannelboard or magnetic board, have children make up other signs of spring, or have the children retell the story by blooming like flowers (crouching on the ground, holding arms above their head in a tulip shape and jumping up) or flapping wings like robins/chirping when these verses are sung. 

Book to Read 

Older preschoolers and kindergartners will love the curious young fox in Fletcher and the Springtime Blossoms.

If you would like to use this book with younger preschoolers (who are generally more wiggly and have shorter attention spans) read half of the book during morning circle and the second half during storytime or other large group activity.



For more spring-themed books see my other blog devoted to children's and adult books:

http://pumpupthevolumes.blogspot.com/

Craft to Make 

Hand print Flowers: Paint your children's hands and make have them press down on white paper. Use green construction paper to to make green leaves and stem to glue under flower hand print. Snip vertical lines in horizontal strips to create fringed grass effect using green construction paper.

Subject areas: Fine motor skills, learning new and springtime colors (math), using a unique art medium paint (creative arts) learning about the outward appearance and anatomy of flowers (science: botany).