Celebrating Spring Holidays with Fun Activities for Kids

Spring is a time for celebration. The warm weather returns after months of cold, flowers start to bloom, you can spend more time outside and there are holidays to celebrate.

From St. Patrick’s Day to Easter, spring holidays provide plenty of ideas for crafts and activities.

St. Patrick’s Day

Leprechaun Trap

Has your little one come home from preschool asking if the leprechaun is going to visit you? Maybe they’ve asked to build a trap to catch the leprechaun. Help your child to use their imagination and creativity while developing fine motor skills by trying a STEM leprechaun trap activity.

Your trap does not have to be detailed; you can keep it simple while still creating lasting memories with your child. Use any materials you have on-hand to create a leprechaun trap and ask your child to take the lead when deciding how to build their trap. Ask them questions about what materials will go where and how it will help to catch a leprechaun. Use our Digital Camera Instant Print to take pictures of the trap or get creative and add tiny footprints around the trap to snap photos of as “proof” that the leprechaun visited.

Coin Counting

It is well known that leprechauns are always trying to find a pot of gold at the end of a rainbow. Help your child to practice their math skills by creating this simple coin counting activity.  Use black construction paper to cut out several “pots” of gold. Write a number in the center of the pot. Hand your child a pile of coins and ask them to count out the number of coins that corresponds to the number written on the pot.

This activity will help to develop fine motor skills, hand-eye coordination, 1:1 correspondence, and it’s great practice for counting and number identification.

Easter

Easter Egg Rescue Game for Toddlers

Plastic Easter eggs are a simple, yet effective learning tool. You can use these eggs for sorting by color or size, for matching uppercase and lowercase letters, and for motor skill activities.

   For this Easter egg rescue activity, all you need is a large tub, plastic eggs, a ladle, and tape. Simply add the eggs to the bin, add strips of tape in various directions across the top, and ask your child to use the ladle to “rescue” the eggs. This activity encourages your child to use fine motor skills, hand-eye coordination, and focus.

Carrot Harvest Game

This interactive wooden toy is perfect for encouraging imaginative play. The perfect addition to your child’s Easter basket, this toy helps your child learn through play by teaching colors, shapes, and motor skills.

From St. Patrick’s Day to Easter, spring holidays are a time for fun and celebration. Create play opportunities for your child that will spark their imagination and enhance their fine motor, math, and language skills.

These activities are not only a great learning experience, they’re also the perfect bonding opportunity. Each activity encourages collaboration and discussion and provides a chance for you to play and laugh along with your little one.