Looking for Spring Enrichment Inspiration? Consider REACHing for one of these!
Looking for Spring Enrichment Inspiration? Consider REACHing for one of these!
Take students outside (or show spring images) and have them write using the five senses.
Prompts:
What do you see in spring? What do you hear? What do you smell? What do you feel? What might you taste?
Students turn their ideas into a short descriptive paragraph.
Students read a short spring poem and then:
Illustrate the poem
Circle descriptive words
Write one new line to add to the poem.
IEW Writing Contest (All Ages K-12) Open to student writers ages 8–18, Prompts announced March 2, 2026; submission deadline is April 30, 2026.
Tadpole Press 100 Word Writing contest (All Ages) Ultra‑short fiction contest (100 words). Spring deadline: April 30, 2026.
Young Writers Contest (K-12) Deadline: February 28, 2026 (wins announced March 22–28, 2026). Accepts short stories, personal narratives, and poems with cash prizes by grade level.
Write the World Series Writing Contest (Ages 13–19) Monthly themed competitions; relevant spring session: Poetry & Spoken Word Competition (Apr 6–Apr 27, 2026).Open to teen writers worldwide; nominal prizes for winners.
There are so many fun ways to practice math skills this Spring ! Which will you do?
Use seeds or flowers to practice fractions. Compare fractions of different flowers in a garden This is great for visual learners: You can also have students color a garden grid to represent fractions.
Students go outside and collect natural objects (flowers, sticks, rocks).Use objects to practice many different math skills: Counting & skip counting, Sorting & classifying, Making graphs (bar graph of how many of each object) & Estimating totals and averages.
Make flower mosaics, butterfly symmetry patterns, or leaf tessellations. Explore: Counting shapes, Fractions of colored vs uncolored parts, Symmetry and reflection
Measure and draw flowers, leaves, or garden plots using rulers and protractors.
Create patterns with petals, leaves, or garden rows to explore symmetry and geometry.
Practice skills with area and perimeter by having students plan a mini-garden layout design.
Math Competitions
Noetic Learning Math Contest (Grades 2-8) Spring 2026 Contest Window: April 2nd-16th
Purple Comet Math Competition Free international online team math competition (middle & high school). Teams of 1–6 students solve a set of problems. The 2026 contest takes place Tuesday, 14 April 2026 through Thursday, 23 April 2026. Team registration has begun and will continue through the end of the contest.
MathCounts Competition Series: Students in grades 6-8 can participate in this fun competition. May 9 -12. Chapter Competitions will be held. State competitions are held in March. Students may register at: MathCounts Competition Series Registration
Here are some of our favorite spring-inspired ideas:
Drawing/Painting tutorials:
Younger grades
How to Draw a Spring Duckling
How to Paint Spring Blossoms
Middle - Upper grades
How to Draw a Spring Mandala
How to draw Spring Flowers for beginners
Spring Crafts:
Spring Crafts for Kids (all ages)
50 Easy Spring Crafts
Spring contests to enter:
ARTEffect Contest
Ages: Middle and High School
Deadline: April 21,2026
Ages: Kindergarten through 5th grade.
Deadline: April 28, 2026,
Keep active this spring with these physical activities!
Explore local parks, trails and Nature Preserves. Autrey Mill Nature Preserve
Get outside and do some Spring hiking. We have some wonderful trails near us. Check out a new trail here. Check out all the new plants and foliage.
Get a buddy or ask a parent to go for a walk, look out for any animals or plant life that may only come out in the spring time.
Put on some music and have a dance party! Maybe your friends and family will join in.
Ride bikes, scooters, or rollerblades together.
Plan a family loop around the neighborhood or a bike trail in a park. Check out these bike trails as well.
Go on an Art Walk with the family.
Check out these science, technology & engineering enrichment opportunities!
Try some of these Science Experiments to experience hands on learning!
Tornado in a Jar (Mini Vortex) : Explore fluid dynamics by swirling water, soap, and glitter to mimic vortex motion.
Sprout Seeds in Jars: Grow seeds in clear containers to observe, measure growth, and graph changes. .
Build a Rain Gauge & Track Rainfall: Students make a simple rain gauge from a plastic bottle to measure spring showers and collect data over time.
Plant a Pollinator Garden: Students plant flowers that attract bees and butterflies and record what they observe.
Capillary Action / Color‑Changing Flowers: Place white flowers in colored water to watch how water moves up stems — a plant physiology experiment.
Engineering Stem Activities
Outdoor STEM Activities for Kids
Build a Bee or Insect Hotel — Kids engineer simple habitats for beneficial insects and learn about ecosystems.
Outdoor Maze Engineering — Design and build a maze with sticks, chalk, or craft materials and plan routes using problem‑solving skills
Technology Stem Activities
Spring STEM Activities Playlist – A YouTube playlist with videos showing spring tech & science kids projects, like circuits, coding, and plant experiments you can follow along with .
RoboBlockly (robot simulation & coding) – A free web‑based robot programming environment where kids can learn coding and math by programming virtual robots using block‑based or text languages. Works in most browsers.
EarSketch (code music & STEM) – Free platform lets kids learn real programming languages by composing and remixing music with code
Here are several Social Studies & History related ideas for the history lover in your family:
This Spring, nationally we'll celebrate Earth Day/Arbor Day, Cinco de Mayo, and Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month.
Earth Day/Arbor Day
Cinco de Mayo
Asian American & Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage Month (May)