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Here are some spring activities to help you and your preschooler enjoy the weather together!

1. Take a nature walk. Look for things along the way – birds, insects, flowers. Collect things in a bag to get home, and add to her nature table.
2. Make rainbows on a chart paper, by painting the VIBGYOR colors in arcs. Leave a little space between each arc of color, and sprinkle some water on the paper after you’ve finished all the arcs. The water will cause each color to blend with the one next to it.
3. Make play dough flowers with yellow for the petals, and a red flat ball for the center. Make bigger leaves with green dough and stick them to the bottom of the flower.
4. Take some potting soil, and place in a tray that’s lined with plastic. Let your child use her fingers to trace the letters of her name in the soil. Put seeds into the grooves, and cover with more soil. Watch as her name “grows” up.
5. Draw a quick outline of a flower on a chart paper. Fill in the petals with glue, and let her fill with lentils, beans etc.
6. Draw a sun, and fill the inside with glue. Let her stick orange lentils in the glued space. Use tooth picks dipped in yellow food color or yellow yarn to make the rays of the sun.
7. Set up a bird table in the yard, and place it in a position that allows her to watch from the window. Use seeds, beans, tiny bits of meat, and observe how many birds come visiting.

So, what else have you been doing this spring?