When we think of spring, we also think of rain and rainbows! For the Little STEAMers, kids will be doing a Skittle Rainbow experiment and making a kaleidoscope!

Materials:

Fun pack of Skittles, paper tube, mirrored cardstock precut, cardstock circle with hole, and straw.

You provide water, markers or crayons and tape.

1. Trace the letter U and small letter u with your fingers. What shapes do you see in the letters?

2. Make the letters Uu with your hand in the air.

3. Glue the Umbrella and raindrops onto your paper with the letter Uu.

4. Go on a Letter U hunt! Find things around your house that begin with the letter U and take pictures! You can make a digital picture dictionary!

5. Point out the letter Uu as you go about your day.

Materials:

Cloud shape, colored construction paper strips, fruit loops. You will also need a glue stick.

Directions:

1. Glue the construction paper strips to the cloud.

2. Open the fruit loops and sort by matching the color fruit loop to the correct strip of colored paper.

3. You can also count the number of fruit loops for each color.

Materials:

Cloud printable on cardstock, straw pieces, yarn, and plastic needle. You will need scissors and a hole punch.

Directions:

1. Cut out clouds from cardstock and punch hole.

2. Using the needle, thread the yarn through the needle and then alternate with straws and clouds.

3. When finished tie a knot and cut excess yarn.

Cloud printable is from Planning Playtime.

Check out some of these Spring titles from the library!

Spring is Here! by Will Hillenbrand

Pig and Goose and the First Day of Spring by Rebecca Bond

Wake Up, It's Spring! by Lisa Campbell Ernst

Snow Rabbit, Spring Rabbit by Il Sung Na

When Will It Be Spring? by Catherine Walters

My Spring Robin by Anne Rockwell

Countdown to Spring by Janet Schulman

How Do You Know It's Spring? by Lisa Herrington

Bear Wants More by Karma Wilson

You can also find a Hooray for Spring storytime by clicking here.