There are so many fun things to do in the spring.  We have included our favorites.  Hope that you can find something that you can use in your classroom.

Spring Lambs

 This little lamb was made with a handprint cut from a black piece of construction paper.  Cotton balls were glued all over the handprint except for the end of the thumb and the fingers.  A squiggle eye was added on the thumb and a bow on the neck.                                                                                                                

Bumble Bees

These little bumble bees were so cute all displayed on our spring bulletin board.  They would also work as a May Day basket to hold flowers. 

Materials needed to make the bee:

Black, yellow and white construction paper
Black pipe cleaner
Flowers for inside the cone
Glue

I don't have the pattern at home, but we used a half circle and curled it into a cone shape.  We used  staples and glue to hold the cone in place.  Small strips of yellow strips were added with glue. One large, black chenille pipe cleaner was stapled on before the face was glued on.  The face was made using 2 small hearts. The yellow face is a bit smaller than the white background.  The face was drawn with a black crayon.  The white wings were glued on the back last.  We added different colors of silk flowers inside the bees for a cute bulletin board.  A handle can be added for a May basket. 

April Showers

This was a door decoration was done with a very large umbrella made using colored and flowered tissue paper.  It was backed with butcher paper and laminated.  A black, construction paper handle was added.  The rain drops were cut from light blue, construction paper that had been folded in fourths.  You can see the bottom ones were falling open!  We added each child's laminated photo to the raindrops.  Then, in May we unfolded the raindrops to make the raindrops into flowers.  We also changed to title to say:  April Showers Bring May Flowers.  We also used polyester batting for the clouds. 

Hanging Umbrellas

These giant umbrellas were made with newspaper.  The adult puts about 6 layers of newspaper together to cut a giant size umbrella.  The kids paint the umbrella.  The handle is attached after the umbrella is dry.  We had the children decorate their umbrella with stickers, paint, dotted stickers, and patches.  Some of them were hung from the lights and the rest were put on the bulletin board.  Our title was "April Showers Bring Mud Puddles"  and added footprints in brown from that bulletin board to the next bulletin board. 

Too Many Kids in the Tub

This bath tub held all of the children from both classes!  The poem that is included at the bottom is:

Too Many Kids in the Tub,
Too many elbows to scrub,
I just scrubbed a knee,
Whose could it be?
Too many kids in the tub!!

Plant Bulletin Board

This is a bulletin board that we made using handprints of the children to reinforce the parts of a flower.  I found this on the web and can't remember where.  I would like to give credit to the person with the idea!  Thank you.

Hand Print Flower Bulletin Board

This is an idea that was given to me by Kerry from British Columbia.  Thanks, Kerry!  Each child's hand was dipped in paint and their handprint stamped around in a circular shape.  Their pictures were added to the center of the flower.  Pictures were cropped into a round shape. 

Bunny and Duck Picture-Poem

   My little yellow duck
  Is really very funny
  For when I turn him over
  He becomes a little bunny!

Click to enlarge pattern.

Wiggly Teeth

This is a fun activity that we do each spring for homework!  This is the time of the year that most of our children have lost a tooth.  Each child completes the worksheet for homework with the parents.  They can illustrate their picture or you can take each child's picture at school.  We put them all together for a book with a cover as shown below. 

Daffodils

We gave each child copies of a six pointed star type flower.  These were cut out and mounted on a 9x12 piece of blue construction paper.  Then each child coiled a piece of 4x 1 1/2" piece of paper for the center "trumpet."  The end of each trumpet was dipped in a bit of white glue and allowed to dry flat.  Green strips of construction paper were tucked under the flower and trimmed off at the bottom of the blue paper.  These were very colorful, and the children had lots of fun making them.