We love Spring around here! Today is the first day of Spring Break and we have VERY little planned. Woot! We plan to sleep late and knock off a few things on this massive list:
- Make kool-aid play dough
- Put fresh flowers in your kitchen
- Decorate an old pair of shoes with Sharpies
- Eat jellybeans
- Pick wildflowers
- Have a picnic at a favorite park
- Make strawberry shortcake popcicles
- Plant a fairy garden
- Art: Spring Branch
- Make a handprint calendar
- Create a Spring Scavenger Hunt
- Decorate hot rocks (fun!)
- Make your own sunshine
- Stay in your pajamas all day
- Play Easter Memory Game (Free Printable)
- Plant flowers in your yard
- Make a kite
- Go fly it
- Make a Garden Journal (free printable)
- Grow your own Easter basket grass (so creative)
- Get a new Spring Purse!
- Indoor Garden ideas
- Pick berries
- Hang a bird feeder
- Easter thumbprint art
- Paint your driveway with homemade paint
- Do something fun with cardboard
- Paper towel butterflies
- Send someone some sunshine
- Spring clean to fun music
- Read outside on a blanket
- Look for rainbows after the rain
- Go to the library
- Plant Pals
- Play in the rain
- Go on a Spring Photo Hunt (50 picture ideas)
- Make Rainbow Rice
- Make a fun paper toy
- Play with your food
- Blow bubbles
- Take pictures in wild flowers
- Eat dirt
- Go barefoot
- Paint a room a bright color
- DIY Spring Flower Centerpieces
- Create a Ribbon Wand
- DIY Veggie Garden Sensory Box
- Paint your nails in one of these colors
- Celebrate Sundays with ice cream sundaes
- Plan a staycation (26 ideas)
- Lay in a hammock
- Go on a bike ride
- Throw open the windows
- Visit new babies at your local zoo
- Tidy a room
- Make sun tea
- Hang your sheets to dry on a clothes line
- Jump in the puddles
- Make a rainbow xylephone
- Make yarn eggs (so fun!)
- Put a spring wreath on your door (my mom made this one for my door!)
- Raise a Butterfly Garden
- Make a flower crown
- Bake bread in a flowerpot
- Resurrection Eggs
(or make your own)
- Read The Parable of the Lily
(one of my favorites)
- Eat one of these
- Make flower-shaped sugar cookies
- Hang a Spring Flag
- Create Plant Pals
- Put pinwheels in the yard
- Go camping!
- Have a Spring-themed party
- Make cheery Peep S’mores
- Force tulip bulbs
- Go on a family walk
- Discover Geocaching
- Raise Ladybugs
- Have a tea party outside on a blanket
- Hopscotch with sidewalk chalk
- Go to a baseball game
- Hand wash the car
- Dig up worms in the yard
- Go fishing
- Have a garage sale
- Swing together
- Make a bug hunting kit
- 60 fabulous ideas for Easter dinner
- Go feed ducks at a park
- Plant an herb garden
- Make homemade marshmallows
- DIY spring vase centerpiece
- Gussy up your spring mantel
- Decorate with pastel candy
- Add a bright colored pillow to your sofa
- Make crepe paper flowers
- Hang a festive spring pennant
- Take a day off to do nothing!
- Do something new to celebrate new life
- Don’t forget a Spring Safety Check
*this post contains a few Amazon affiliate links
LOVE these ideas!! Thanks!
Love this list, Kristen! Looking forward to doing some of these, perhaps today, this nasty, gloomy, rainy day we are having.
Here in central PA, we can’t plant anything outside yet. We get frost through the end of April, but this week is supposed to be GORGEOUS!! Temps in the 60′s and even a day at 70!!! We are inviting friends for a picnic lunch at the playground today and probably Wednesday. Yayyyyy for nice weather!!!
started my garden indoors TODAY! love spring. love this list!
We did the nail polish! Pink, blue and green en even tough I feel like I’m getting to old (30 next month) to wear blue nail polish it’s making me smile all day!!
The link for #45 is not working for me… am I doing something wrong? Thanks!
Another great list! (Thinking of your list of 100+ ways for your family to make a difference.)
# 65. Resurrection Eggs – don’t buy them! Make them! (See here for some guidance: http://familyfaithcompanion.org/2010/03/26/preparing-for-easter-telling-the-story/ )
Although I realize you’re hoping for those Amazon affiliate links.
And yikes. Up here I won’t dare plant any plants outdoors for another 2 months!
I wanted to thank you for the 100 ways to celebrate spring! My daughter and i are having so much fun with these ideas and they are so simple! Thank you!