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50 Spring Activities for You and Your Family

By Jodi Lorence, Macaroni Kid Publisher March 11, 2021

🌷🐦☀️🌱Spring will soon be here and weather for kids and families to spend more time outdoors after being so cooped up during the cold winter. I have compiled a list of fun activities to enjoy on these warmer spring days. 

1. Blow bubbles or make a bubble project, click for your recipe HERE

2. Build a birdhouse, cute ideas HERE or a Cookie Cutter Birdseed Bird Feeder HERE

3. Visit Como Zoo or the Conservatory, click for more information HERE

4. Go in a nature scavenger hunt, Click for your printables HERE

5. Ride your bike

6. Make a wind chime, Click HERE 

7. Fly a kite, click HERE 

8. Go to a local park, Click HERE to find a park.

9. Visit Lebanon Hills Regional Park, Click HERE

10. Play hopscotch, Click HERE

11.  Paint rocks to put in the garden, click HERE

12. Plant seeds indoors to plant when it gets warmer, click HERE and/or HERE

13. Put rainboots on and a rain jacket on and jump in the puddles, Click HERE

14. Create a Fairy Garden, Click HERE or HERE

15. Hula hoop or play lawn games, Click HERE

16. Go to the park and play baseball, Click HERE

17. Write on the driveway/ sidewalk with chalk, Click HERE

18. Make a butterfly craft HERE or a butterlly apple craft, Click HERE

19. Play hide and seek

20. Take your dog on a walk

21. Make a weather chart craft, Click HERE

22. Jump rope

23. Build a fort, Click HERE for ideas

24. Play hockey in the driveway

25. Make an Easter recipe or craft, Click HERE

26.  Plan a picnic, Click HERE for ideas

27. Go bird watching

28.  Create an egg hunt in your yard. 

29. Have a bike wash

30. Read Bruce the Bear and  Ruth the Bunny, click HERE for more information

31. Make a spring "Family to do list"

32.  Print and color Easter coloring  page HERE and activity pages HERE

33. Go to the library or watch virtual story times, Dakota County Facebook Page HERE

34. Host a family game night, Click HERE

35. Make a easter cookie with cany eggs inside, click HERE for recipe

36. Plan a garage sale

37. Spring cleaning - Back to the Basics, Click HERE

38.  Make a welcome spring simple caterpillar craft, Click HERE

39.  Take a day trip, Click HERE

40.  Create Friendship bracelets, Click HERE

41. In a notebook journal daily weather: sunshine, rain, snow, windy, and at the end of the month create a weather bar graph, Click HERE for a free printable bar        graph

42. Pick up litter in your neighorhood. Be sure to wear gloves and be safe.

43.  Make a sensory bin, click HERE

44. Explore in your backyard with a backyard scavenger hunt, Click HERE

45. Made a spring time bird craft, click HERE

46. Make Easter basket and birds nest cupcakes, Click HERE for recipe

47. Go outside and read

48. Make a cute little Easter bunny Click HERE

49. Play a game of  “Pig” basketball with your family in the driveway, click HERE for rules

50. Have an old fashioned 3-legged race or gunny sack race