15 Preschool Spanish Spring Activities To Do This Year in 2022
Are you looking for fun, easy, and effective spring activities for Spanish class?
Springtime is finally here! It’s a highly stimulating season for toddlers and for kids to enjoy. The weather is pleasant, the flowers are in bloom, and your little ones are surrounded by inspiration to learn Spanish.
Spring activities for preschool are just what you need to make the most of this wonderful time of the year.
If you want to reinforce your child’s Spanish skills through engaging spring-themed activities for this April break, you’ve hit the jackpot.
Keep reading for seasonal vocabulary and 15 spring activities for preschoolers that target Spanish literacy, counting, and art. Each activity comes with instructions, materials, and goals to support homeschool parents and Spanish educators.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
- Spanish Vocabulary for Spring-Themed Activities
- Spanish Spring Art Activities for Preschoolers
- Counting Spring Activities for Toddlers
- Literacy Spring Activities for Preschool
- Join a Spanish Program This Spring
Spanish Vocabulary for Spring-Themed Activities
For starters, use and practice this practical Spanish vocabulary list made specifically for kindergarten. The words apply to some of the spring activities and projects for preschoolers on this list.
Easy Spring Spanish Vocabulary for Pre-K
| English | Spanish |
| basket | la cesta |
| bee | la abeja |
| butterfly | la mariposa |
| clouds | las nubes |
| frog | la rana |
| grass | la hierba |
| ladybug | la mariquita |
| nest | el nido |
| rabbit | el conejo |
| rain | la lluvia |
| rainbow | el arcoiris |
| sun | el sol |
| sunflower | el girasol |
5 Spanish Spring Art Activities for Preschoolers
Spanish learning activities for springtime stimulate your child’s creativity and imagination. These art projects for preschoolers are guaranteed to spark motivation and get them interested in the seasonal changes happening around them.
1. Rain Jar
This experiment is ideal for teaching young learners about the awaited springtime rains, also known as “April showers.”
Materials:
- a glass jar
- a can of foaming shaving cream
- blue food coloring
- a dropper
- water
Have your child fill half of the jar with water and leave space at the top for a small amount of shaving cream. The shaving cream is meant to simulate una nube (a cloud) and the water is el aire (the air) filling the sky.
Ask your kids what they think will happen once they start dropping the blue coloring on the shaving cream.
The blue drops of coloring should fall through the shaving cream clouds. It’s a fun experiment and a unique spring activity to teach your child the science of rainfall.
Compliment this curious experiment with a lesson on The Water Cycle in Spanish for Kids.
2. Play-doh Butterfly
Spring brings colorful butterflies and caterpillars. Kids are naturally drawn to them, and they make an interesting lesson on colors and nature in Spanish.
Take your preschool students outside and allow them to observe las mariposas (butterflies) and las orugas (caterpillars) in their natural habitat.
Have them recreate their favorite butterfly or caterpillar using colorful play-doh. Molding clay is fantastic to stimulate kids’ motor skills and creativity.
Use this lesson on Animal Parts and Anatomy in Spanish to teach your children about the parts of a butterfly.
3. Q-tip, Finger, and Fork Flowers
Use tempera paint, cotton swab, and plastic forks for your child to finger paint a unique springtime art project.
Las flores (flowers) are the best part of spring. They bring life, colors, and embellish any corner.
Give your preschoolers a blank piece of paper and do their thing. Have them use the forks to create lines and their fingers or q-tips to create dots. They will make unique colorful flowers using their imagination.
These painting methods require concentration and stimulate the use of fine motor skills.
Check out: 60 Common Spanish Flowers from the Tropics for inspiration
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4. Dry Flower Collage
Children love to pick flowers. Take the classroom outside and give your kids a basket to collect spring flowers and leaves from the ground.
Dry the flowers in a jar and press them between two books to flatten them. Have your children will make a collage or art composition using the different natural materials they collected.
Make this arts and crafts activity an opportunity for your children to practice the Colors in Spanish.
5. Cotton Clouds and Rainbow
Spring is the ideal time of the year to admire el arcoiris (the rainbow).
Using cotton balls, tempera paint, and a paper plate cut in half; your preschoolers will create their own rainbow. The cotton balls simulate clouds, while the paper plate makes a perfect rainbow shape for them to color.
Learn fun and fascinating facts about the rainbow in Spanish for this simple, yet educational spring activity.
Counting Spring Activities for Toddlers
Counting in Spanish is an essential part of the language. Learn numbers through these ingenious spring activities! Here are some options for kindergarten.
6. Count Flower Petals
This is a spring activity for preschool you won’t want to miss. It’s an effective counting exercise.
For this educational math game, you’ll need construction paper, a marker, and scissors.
Draw and cut 10 petalos (petals), un tallo (stem), and 10 circles. Your pieces will resemble una flor (a flower). Write the numbers 1 to 10 on each circle. You’ll end up with a flower puzzle for kids to put together to learn numbers in Spanish.
Follow this step-by-step Spanish video to do the activity. Don’t forget to do a quick review of Numbers and Counting in Spanish.
7. Egg Hunt
An egg hunt is a memorable spring activity for preschool. Easter and spring are associated with
- conejitos – bunnies
- pollitos – chicks
- chocolates – chocolates
- sorpresas – surprises
Make your own huevos de Pascua (Easter eggs) or buy an egg decorating kit. Invite other Spanish preschool friends and take the egg hunt outside. This healthy competition gives young students fresh air and time outdoors.
It’s a classic spring tradition that will motivate preschoolers to practice counting in Spanish, as they’re excited by Easter rewards.
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8. Flower Garden or Orchard
Planting a garden or orchard is the ultimate spring activity for preschool.
Teach kids about nature and how to care for plants in Spanish. Again, counting is of utmost importance. Gardening requires you to be aware of seed count, sprouting, watering, light, and harvest times.
Hand-picked for you: Science of Plants and Soil in Spanish for Kids
Take advantage of the blooming season and start a vegetable or flower garden with your toddler. Make it an opportunity to practice the numbers and calendar in Spanish.
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9. Play Spanish Games Outside
Las rondas (rounds) and los juegos (games) are classic Hispanic spring activities that are played outside at recess or on the playground.
El avioncito (hopscotch), Pares y Nones (odds and evens), and escondite (hide and seek) are only a few of the many kids games you can enjoy as preschool spring activities. Many of these games require wit, being quick, and mastering counting in Spanish.
Get inspiration from 10 Classic Schoolyard Games Kids Play in Latin America.
10. Feed the Monster
Play a game of Feed the Monster as one of your spring activities for children.
You’ll need construction paper, cardboard boxes or a bucket, crayons, pompons, plastic flowers, glitter, pipe cleaners, paint, and a pair of dice.
Have your students draw a face and decorate the bucket, or boxes to resemble a hungry springtime monster.
Roll the dice and call out the numbers in Spanish. Students will feed the monster with that number using the pompons, while counting.
This game is fun, unique, and encourages cooperation for feeding the hungry spring monster together.
Dance to 20 Spectacular Spanish Number Songs for Kids.
Literacy Spring Activities for Preschool
When it comes to spring activities for teaching Spanish literacy, there are dozens of possibilities. Games, crafts, and stories are ideal for enhancing your child’s ability to write and read. Check out these five original spring activities for preschool literacy.
11. Spring Scavenger Hunt
Scavenger hunts are perfect for springtime. Involve the whole family and take the fun outside into the fresh air. Allow your kid’s imagination to fly and visualize Spanish vocabulary.
Make your own spring Spanish scavenger hunt checklist with easy-to-gather objects. Some ideas are spring colors, plants, animals, or household items.
Set a time limit to complete the list. Be sure to practice Spanish pronunciation on the hunt.
12. Spring Lotería
Lotería (Bingo) is a fun traditional game that allows students to practice Spanish listening, reading, and comprehension of nouns and pronouns. It’s great for visual learners. Offer prizes to make it more amusing.
Make illustrated, colorful, Spanish bingo cards part of your spring-themed activities. Customize it for springtime with seasonal words.
13. Spring Spanish Storytime
Reading in Spanish is one of the most effective spring activities for language learning. Books and stories are ideal for kids to learn contextualization and intuitive use of the language.
Here is a selection of books to use for spring-themed activities:
- Bienvenida Primavera: Libro de Actividades para Niños (Welcome Spring: Children’s Activity Book)
- Julieta y un día en el jardín: Un cuento de primavera y yoga para niños (Juliet and A Day in the Garden: A Tale of Spring and Yoga for Kids)
- Un poema para cada día de primavera (A Poem for Every Spring Day)
- Martín y la llegada de la primavera (Martin and The Coming of Spring)
14. Alphabet Kite
Make a barrilete (kite) using tissue paper, string, bamboo sticks, and glue. Make a long tail for your kite using circles of construction papers and write a letter from the alphabet on each one.
Every day, your toddler will fly the kite outside and remove a letter from the tail’s end. Practice Spanish vocabulary using that letter from the alphabet.
Make this creative game part of your daily spring activities to practice and discover a new Spanish letter everyday.
15. Cook a Spring Recipe in Spanish
Spring is all about staying healthy and making the most of fresh ingredients.
Take the opportunity to eat delicious food and follow a step-by-step recipe in Spanish with your preschooler using las frutas y verduras de temporada (seasonal fruits and vegetables).
From sandwiches to soups to yummy desserts, there are many inspirational Spanish spring recipes for kids to choose from.
Join a Spanish Program This Spring
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“It’s a great way to learn Spanish, from native Spanish speakers in a 1-on-1 environment. It’s been fairly easy to schedule classes around my daughter’s other classes. The best value for us has been ordering multiple classes at a time. All the instructors have been great!”
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– Erica P. Parent of 1
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