Springtime With Your Children
Spring has arrived! After months of chilly weather, it’s refreshing to soak up the sunshine and enjoy the longer days. Embrace the season’s changes with your child through engaging hands-on activities, creative crafts and fun explorations. Spark their curiosity by discussing the shifting weather and the wonders of nature. Start a garden together or keep an eye out for emerging wildlife. Refresh your reading list with books that celebrate spring. Savor the season’s bright colors with a glass of Pinkalicious lemonade, or welcome new feathered visitors by making a bottle bird feeder. Get inspired with this list from PBS KIDS for Parents.
Best Children’s Books for Celebrating Spring
Showers, flowers and, of course, books! Celebrate the arrival of spring with these great books to read with your kids.
Craft Spring-y Flowers
All it takes to make spring-y flowers (paper flowers on a spring!) is a little construction paper. Encourage your preschooler to pick out spring colors they’ve spotted in nature, and when you’re done with this easy-to-make craft, use your pop-up flowers as fun DIY decorations or give them to friends and family to brighten their day.
Spring Into Family Brunch This Season With Five Cool Recipes
When spring bursts through the cold of winter, does your family enjoy spending time in the kitchen together? Whether it’s making brunch together, mixing up our menus from winter’s hot cocoa to springtime’s lemonade, check out these fun and easy PBS KIDS-inspired brunch recipes you can make with your kids, too!
Grow Seedlings in an Egg Carton
It's plant day at school and Elinor from Elinor Wonders Why and her friends can't wait to get their own plants! They learn that plants come in many different shapes and sizes - some grow tall, some have big leaves, some have flowers, and some even have prickly thorns or spines. And when Elinor and her friends get to know their plants better, they find out that some plants only need water once a week while other plants need water every few days. Each plant is unique and special!
7 Simple Springtime Outdoor Activities
Spring is finally here! After such a long and cold winter, it's thrilling to feel the wind in your hair and the warm sun on your face. The PBS KIDS for Parents team shares seven simple ways to enjoy the outdoors and celebrate spring.
Make a Plastic Bottle Birdfeeder
Ask your child to describe different birds they have seen in your yard or neighborhood. Then, ask, “What do you think birds like to eat?” Explain that different types of birds like different kinds of foods. Some examples of bird food are insects, worms, fruit, nectar and birdseeds. Then work with your child to make a birdfeeder that you can fill with seeds.