12 Spring Activities for Toddlers and Preschoolers
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Spring is the perfect season to refresh your activity rotation. The days get longer, the weather gets warmer, and suddenly everyone needs something engaging (and productive) to do.
If you’re looking for simple, hands-on spring activities for toddlers and preschoolers that build real skills — fine motor, early literacy, math, balance, and independence — you’re in the right place.
These activities are playful, low-prep, teacher-created, and kid-tested and approved!
Let’s jump in 🌷
1. Fine Motor Flower Garden
This is such a simple way to strengthen little hand muscles!
What you need:
Artificial flower stems (Dollar Tree is perfect for this)
Shoebox
Green construction paper
Something sharp to poke holes
Cover a shoebox with green paper to look like grass. Poke holes across the top. Invite your child to “plant” their own flower garden by pushing the stems into the holes.
Skills worked:
Fine motor strength
Hand-eye coordination
Bilateral coordination
Creative play
This one is great for ages 2.5+ with supervision.
2. Pom Pom Flower Push
Another shoebox/tissue box favorite — but this time with color matching!
Cover a shoebox or tissue box with green paper. Tape colored paper flowers to the top and cut a hole in the center of each flower. Set out matching pom poms for your child to push into the coordinating flower.
Skills worked:
Color matching
Finger strength
Hand control
Early sorting skills
Toddlers love the “posting” action — it’s so satisfying!
3. Spring Time Magnatile Match Up
If you have magnetic tiles, this is such a fun twist.
Use a large sheet of easel paper to build a spring scene (flowers, stems, butterflies, etc.). Trace around the tiles with coordinating colored markers. Then invite your child to match and recreate the design.
Skills worked:
Spatial awareness
Shape recognition
Problem solving
Visual discrimination
You can make it simple for toddlers or more detailed for preschoolers.
4. Reusable Spring Activity Book (Wipe-Clean)
If you want activities that are truly ZERO PREP, this is where my Oh Hey Let’s Play with SPRING Themes activity book comes in.
This spiral-bound, fully laminated, wipe-clean book includes:
Multiple spring-themed play units
Pre-writing practice
Early literacy skills
Letter recognition
Beginning math concepts
Fine motor activities
70+ pages of reusable learning
It’s designed for ages 2.5 (with support) up through 5–6 with growing independence.
You can read the full breakdown of what’s included HERE! (Available seasonally - end of February-end of May)
This is one of our favorite grab-and-go options for table work time, quiet time, or independent play. Available with free shipping within the US OR also available as a digital download!
5. Cupcake Liner Flower Craft
This craft makes the sweetest spring fridge decor!
Cut slits into colored paper cupcake liners to create flower petals. Glue them onto cardstock. Add small yellow pom poms to the center. Use green strips of paper for stems, leaves, and grass (pre-cut for younger kids or let older kids cut their own).
Skills worked:
Scissor skills
Gluing control
Creativity
Fine motor coordination
Crafts that double as homemade, seasonal decor are always a win!
6. “Water” the Flowers
Grab a spray bottle — it’s one of the best hand-strength tools you can use.
Draw large flowers on the driveway or sidewalk with chalk. Write uppercase or lowercase letters inside each flower. Have your child identify the letter before spraying it away with water.
Skills worked:
Hand strength (huge for handwriting prep!)
Letter recognition
Gross motor movement
Outdoor learning
Spray bottles strengthen the same muscles used for scissors, buttoning, zipping, and tying shoes.
7. Flower Garden Sensory Play
This flower set has been one of our favorite open-ended spring toys — and one of our best quiet time toys.
Add removable dot stickers with letters to the leaves and flowers. Fill a bin with dried beans. Have your child match flowers to stems by letter.
When they’re done matching? Let them play freely in the sensory bin.
For more about what quiet time looks like in our house, check out this post!
You can also browse our favorite quiet time toys and activities in my Amazon shop!
Skills worked:
Letter recognition
Sensory exploration
Independent play
Focus and attention
8. Pouch Cap Letter Match
Save those applesauce pouch caps!
Write letters on the tops with a Sharpie. Draw flowers on plain notecards. Have your child match the cap letters to the flower letters.
This makes a perfect:
Morning basket activity (see our summer morning basket routine here
Busy bin option (more busy box ideas here)
Simple. Free. Effective.
9. Flower Petal Letter Match (with Sticky Notes)
Draw large flowers on easel paper. Write letters in the center of each flower. Write coordinating letters on skinny sticky notes.
Have your child match and build petals.
Skills worked:
Uppercase/lowercase matching
Fine motor control
Visual scanning
This one looks impressive but takes less than 10 minutes to prep!
10. Bumble Bees on Flower Petals (Gross Motor)
This is a full-body learning activity.
Tape a long strip of green painter’s tape across the floor as a flower “stem.” Place lettered sticky-note bumblebees along the sides of the tape. Draw a large flower on easel paper at the other end with matching letters on the petals.
Have your child balance heel-to-toe along the tape, pick up a bee, and deliver it to the matching petal.
Skills worked:
Balance
Coordination
Letter recognition
Core strength
Perfect for high-energy preschoolers.
11. Rainy Day Printable Pack (Free!)
This free printable pack includes:
Pre-writing practice
Color word reading
Tracing
Counting
Coloring
Early math
Download, print, and use today!
→ Grab the free Rainy Day Printable Pack here.
It’s perfect for those extra long, rainy and gloomy spring days!
12. Flower Math Match-Up
For older preschoolers or kindergartners who are ready for simple addition.
Use green popsicle sticks as stems and painter’s tape as leaves labeled with numbers. Write addition problems on flower cutouts and have children match them to the correct answer on the stem.
You can easily adapt this to:
Letter matching
Number matching
Number-to-quantity matching
Skills worked:
Early math fluency
Problem solving
Number sense
Final Thoughts
Rainy spring days inside don’t have to mean screens all day.
A shoebox. Sticky notes. A roll of painter’s tape. Pouch caps.
When learning feels like play, kids engage longer — and the skills stick!
If you want even more organized, done-for-you seasonal learning ideas, you can explore:
My reusable Spring Activity Book
More Spring Blog Posts to Explore:
Spring is short — but the learning opportunities are endless.🌷Tag me on social media @ohheyletsplay if you try any of these!
