Spring STEM Activities
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Introduce springtime STEM into your homeschool preschool lessons with this amazing collection of 20 spring STEM activities for kids.
These STEM activities are perfect spring ideas for preschool, and they are sure to engage your little engineers.
From snails and butterflies to flowers and rainbows, your students will beg to do just one more STEM activity!
Spring STEM Activities
Whether you focus on the science, technology, engineering, or math part of STEM, these spring challenges will certainly entertain your preschoolers while teaching them at the same time.
Flower Construction Challenge
Challenge your little learners to build a Free-Standing Flower with this STEM challenge.
Planting a Rainbow
Planting a Rainbow is a great book to read in the spring and summer. Challenge kids to build their own rainbow of flowers from brightly colored pattern blocks.
Spring Flower Roll and Color Math Games
There are many different ways your preschoolers can use these Spring Flower Roll and Color printable activity pages.
Flower Exploration Center
Kids can experience sensory fun, science, and art when you set up a Flower Exploration Center.
Growing Sunflowers with Kids
I can’t wait to explore how to plant sunflowers with kids next spring when my grandson is old enough to help me dig in the dirt. Focus on science with the planting part, and switch to math to track your sunflower’s growth.
STEM Activities for Preschoolers
Kids will love this set of STEM activities for preschoolers. Inside, you’ll find 15 STEM challenges and a data recording page.
Seed Germination Experiment For Kids
I’ve set up a Seed Jar several times when my kids were preschoolers. They loved watching the seed begin to sprout through the clear jar. It’s a great way to introduce little ones to the life cycle of a plant.
Caterpillar to Butterfly Science Activity with Balloon
I’ve never met a kid who wasn’t intrigued by the life cycle of a butterfly. The idea of a caterpillar turning into a butterfly is so exciting. Demonstrate that transformation with this Butterfly STEM Challenge.
How To Build A Circuit Flower
Kids will combine art and technology as they learn how to build a circuit flower.
Bird Nest Science Activity
Young naturalists will enjoy working together in this bird nest science activity. They will gather supplies, and use them to build a bird’s nest. They’ll soon understand it’s harder than it looks.
Flower or Butterfly Sorting and Coloring Free PDF
Give this flower or butterfly sorting activity a try. Kids will get an up-close look at different types of flowers and butterflies and their characteristics.
Spring Flower Nature Scavenger Hunt
Now that the weather’s beginning to warm up and the sun is shining more, it’s a great time to head outside for a spring flower nature scavenger hunt.
Outdoor Spring Scavenger Hunt for Kids
Print out this free early spring scavenger hunt, and start exploring with your preschoolers. They’ll look for buds on trees, rabbits, birds, flowers, and more.
Flower Number Line Game
You can make this flower number line game in no time, and your young learners can practice counting, number order, addition, and subtraction.
Counting & Number Recognition with Spring Flowers
Counting & Number Recognition with Spring Flowers is a great way to liven up your math centers this spring!
Reggio Inspired Spring Nature Table
Setting up a Reggio-Inspired Spring Nature Table will inspire children to explore beautiful natural materials for open-ended play.
Which spring STEM challenge will you and your kids try first?
PRESCHOOL BOOKS ABOUT SPRING
Fill your book basket with a great collection of books about spring. Most of these books can be found at your local library or used bookstore.
If you have a hard time finding them, you can order them through my Amazon affiliate links by clicking the images below.
A Little Book About Spring – Spring is a time of budding trees, chirping birds, and croaking frogs. Discover these and more wonders of spring in this delightful board book inspired by the works of legendary children’s book author-illustrator Leo Lionni.
And Then It’s Spring – Following a snow-filled winter, a young boy and his dog decide that they’ve had enough of all that brown and resolve to plant a garden. They dig, they plant, they play, they wait . . . and wait . . . until at last, the brown becomes a more hopeful shade of brown, a sign that spring may finally be on its way.
Everything Spring – Young children can see, hear, and feel the warmth of springtime by reading and learning all about chicks, bunnies, and the other baby animals that come out to play in springtime.
TEACHING RESOURCES
This spring themed play dough kit will provide hours of creative and sensory based play for your little ones.
Little ones will love making this sweet little wooden bunny fluffy by using the bamboo tongs to place the wool balls into the divots! This activity will help develop rote counting, one to one correspondence, build subitizing skills, encourage addition and subtraction practice!
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