Make a kite. You can make them from paper, or recycle one of your plastic grocery bags! And here are some great mini lessons you can do about kites.
Make wind chimes. You can use old CDs, frozen juice lids, seashells, old utensils, aluminum pie pans, sticks--see if your kids have any fun ideas.
Put branches in water for early blooms. Just cut a branch from the plant, and either peel or mash the thick end to help it absorb water. Put it in a vase or jar and change the water frequently.
Go for a winter walk and look for signs of thawing in a pond (the botany pond on the south end of BYU is a perfect place to look.)
Make a spring mural--paint, sketch, paste, and stick all sorty of pictures that show spring growth and change. Make a tree silhouette and paste down green paper leaves then the real leaves open. Glue pictures from old gardening catalogues or magazines. Paste down pictures of baby animals that are born in the spring. You can even label things with the dates that you observed them outside (when you saw the first robin, first green leaves on a tree, when the last snow melted.)
Learn some bird songs and calls. http://www.enature.com/birding/audio.asp
Make wind chimes. You can use old CDs, frozen juice lids, seashells, old utensils, aluminum pie pans, sticks--see if your kids have any fun ideas.
Put branches in water for early blooms. Just cut a branch from the plant, and either peel or mash the thick end to help it absorb water. Put it in a vase or jar and change the water frequently.
Go for a winter walk and look for signs of thawing in a pond (the botany pond on the south end of BYU is a perfect place to look.)
Make a spring mural--paint, sketch, paste, and stick all sorty of pictures that show spring growth and change. Make a tree silhouette and paste down green paper leaves then the real leaves open. Glue pictures from old gardening catalogues or magazines. Paste down pictures of baby animals that are born in the spring. You can even label things with the dates that you observed them outside (when you saw the first robin, first green leaves on a tree, when the last snow melted.)
Learn some bird songs and calls. http://www.enature.com/birding/audio.asp
Make cloud art. You can give them blue construction paper, cotton balls, and glue and let them make their own cloud shapes, or use a white crayon to draw clouds on a large peice of white paper and then let them paint over the picture with thin blue paint--the clouds will "appear" in the sky.