Spring is here and we are SO ready for all things outdoors and garden theme! My little ones have always loved digging in the dirt, tending to plants, and exploring outdoors. So a plant theme was an absolute must in our Preschool curriculum! This Spring Garden Preschool theme is packed with Math, Literacy and Fine Motors practice PLUS adorable little garden pals!
Whether you’re teaching in the classroom or at home, you’ll love how easy it is to bring this Spring theme to life without the overwhelm of planning it all yourself. Below you’ll find tons of activities and tips!
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Spring Theme Sensory Bin
One of the easiest ways to add excitement and hands-on learning to your preschool week is with a themed sensory bin. So many of the activities in our Spring Garden Preschool pack incorporate a sensory bin, so it’s best to knock out the preparation early on! Our Spring sensory bin is always a hit—it’s simple to put together and offers tons of playful learning opportunities! Here’s how I like to set ours up!
FIRST, gather your materials. I like to use a plastic storage bin with a lid so I can cover and store the bin once it’s prepared. Choose your filler, like the dry brown beans we use in ours. Something about the beans really makes all the colors in our spring garden activities POP and gives children a very unique texture to experience. Once you’ve chosen your filler, fill your storage bin as much as you feel comfortable with (knowing each individual child can handle working with different amounts of materials).
NEXT, grab some extra Spring themed items like plastic flowers and critters, puffy stickers, mini erasers, colorful pompoms, etc. These items make the perfect backdrop for the printable items in our spring garden preschool activities! Scatter them throughout your sensory bin filler and watch the theme really come to life!
FINALLY, choose a space that you feel comfortable using the sensory bin with your child. I tuck ours away in our homeschool room with the rest of our Preschool manipulatives, and keep our sensory bin blanket nearby for when it’s time to get to work. The rule with our bins – everything stays on the blanket! This makes clean up SO much easier.
READY, SET, PLAY!!! When your sensory bin is not being used for the printable activities in our spring garden Preschool theme, allow children to explore freely! Watch them scoop, pour, dig, and more! I love taking our bin our when I need a little extra quiet time for homeschooling an older child, or honestly if I just need an extra minute to sip my hot coffee!
Spring Garden Preschool Theme Overview
This Spring Garden Preschool theme is sure to give your little learners TONS of fun practice! Children will have 15 center-style activities to choose from – 5 Math, 5 Literacy and 5 Fine Motor centers. In addition, I’ve included book recommendations for 5 spring theme picture books and links to their read aloud videos on YouTube!
To use these printables, you can follow the PRE-MADE lesson plans for a week full of fun! Each of the 5 pre-planned days your students will have 1 read aloud, 1 Math activity, 1 Literacy activity, and 1 Fine Motor activity to work on. This is a great pace for little learners! But if you’d like to spread the activities out or rearrange them according your own child’s needs, simply print our provided Build-Your-Own Plans page and make your own plans!
PS See how we use this theme in our Preschool scope and sequence by grabbing our FREE Preschool Curriculum Map below!
Math Activities
This set of printables has 5 fun Spring Garden Preschool theme activities for practicing early Math skills. Children will practice number formation, number identification, counting, colors, and shapes. Our Preschool activities always include the use of small manipulatives for added fine motor skills practice!
One of my favorite garden theme Math activities is the activity shown above! Sorting activities are a great way to practice fine motor skills, especially with small pieces like these little seeds! To use this activity, children choose seed number cards from their sensory bin. They’ll identify the numbers on the seeds and sort them onto their matching seed packets until all of the seeds have been sorted.
BONUS TIP: As we’re sorting, I like to take quick pauses to count the number of seeds we’ve added to each seed packet so far and comparing the packets with the most, least, etc. I love doing this each time we use this activity because the amounts are always different, adding some nice variety to our counting practice!
Literacy Activities
In addition to the Math centers, this set includes 5 early Spring Garden Preschool Literacy activities! Children will practice skills like letter identification, letter formation, beginning sounds, and handwriting practice with spring and garden theme vocabulary words!
Included in the Literacy printables from our garden theme is the activity shown above. To use these task cards, children identify the uppercase letters on the kites. Then using a manipulative from the sensory bin, they’ll find and cover the corresponding lowercase letters.
BONUS TIP: Extend this activity by discussing the sound each letter makes, and come up with words that begin with the sounds!
Fine Motor Activities
When working with little learners, strengthening fine motor skills is a must! Our 5 garden theme fine motor activities will have your children working hard and having TONS of fun! They will practice scissor skills, mold using play dough, matching pictures, and so much more!
An activity you’ll find included in this theme is a “build a garden” activity. To give children some extra fine motor skills practice, you can have them cut out the flower garden pieces before getting started. Then children can customize their own little flower garden using the pieces!
BONUS TIP: Laminate this page or slide into a page protector to turn it into a play dough activity!
And… I lesson planned FOR YOU!
This set of activities (and all of the other 45+ sets in our FULL Preschool Curriculum) include a full week of print and go visual lesson plans! It shows you exactly which books and printables to use each day for a 5-day school week, making lesson planning an absolute breeze!
Want to build your own? Or maybe your kiddos are ready for some of the activities but not all of them? That’s great! Use the included Build Your Own lesson plans page! These thematic centers were designed with growing learners ages 2.5 to 5 years old in mind, so this lesson planning page allows you to choose which activities your child is ready for right now!
More April fun!
Ready to learn with your toddlers or Preschoolers ALL MONTH LONG?! You can save TONS when you grab this set of centers in our April Preschool Curriculum! The bundle includes 4 engaging April themes (like Easter, fruits, and more!), complete with a week of lesson plans for each! You’ll also get 25 NO PREP Spring themed fine motor skills worksheets and crafts, and 42 NO PREP Math and Literacy worksheets for extended practice!
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