Last Updated on March 25, 2025 by Sheryl Cooper
Inside: Planning your toddler and preschool April themes? This collection includes a variety of hands-on ideas that you can add to your monthly planner!
If you are planning your toddler and preschool April themes, I’ve made it easier for you by putting my favorite resources in one spot!
Teachers can use these in the classroom and parents can add them to their children’s home activities.
We’ve added activities for your centers, for circle time, activities that build specific skills, music … and much more.
Happy planning!
Ideas for Toddler and Preschool April Themes
Check out my class themes for April on my 2023-2024 planning page.
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Themes Ideas
- Easter (If Easter is in March this year, please see our March plans as well.)
- Spring
- Bugs and Butterflies
- Gardening
Scroll down to find out what others are doing during the month of April! I’ve provided links to even more ideas!
Classroom Set Ups
You can view my previous classroom theme set up posts and videos here:
Spring
Gardening
Bugs and Gardening Theme (2019)
Easter (when Easter is in April)
- Classroom Set Up
- Classroom Video Tour Year #1
- Classroom Video Tour Year #2
- Classroom Video Tour (2022)
- Pond and Easter Classroom Video Tour (2022)
Gardening
Circle Time
Click here to see my favorite spring circle time activities!
- Props: Plain and Numbered Flowers
- Props: Numbered Spiders (from our Bugs Packet)
- Props: Bug Props for the Children to Hold (from our Bugs Packet)
- Five Little Speckled Frogs– Using Frogs Printable from Song & Rhymes Pack
- Five Little Ducks Went Swimming One Day – Using Ducks Printable from Song & Rhymes Pack
- Ten Little Caterpillars (from our Spring Counting Packet)
- Song (with Lyrics): Five Little Bunnies Driving in a Car (from our 5 Little Friends Driving in a Car Packet)
- Song (with Lyrics): Five Little Butterflies (from our Bugs Packet)
- Song (with Lyrics): Ten Little Honeybees (from our Bugs Packet)
- Song (with Lyrics): Easter Bunny, Easter Bunny (from our Seasonal Songs & Rhymes Packet)
- Song (with Lyrics): Five Spotted Eggs (from our Seasonal Songs & Rhymes Packet)
- Song: Five Little Caterpillars
- Song: Butterfly Colors Song
- Song: The Gardener Plants the Seeds
- Song: 5 Spring Flowers
- 5 Little Bunnies Jumping on the Bed Props (from our 5 Little Friends Jumping on the Bed Packet)
- 5 Little Frogs Jumping on the Bed Props (from our 5 Little Friends Jumping on the Bed Packet)
- Movement Song: The Grasshopper Hop
- Spring Preschool Circle Time Songs and Activities (Growing Book by Book)
- Spring Circle Time Activities (Play to Learn Preschool)
Printable Activities
Centers
Art
- Colorful Paper Plate Flowers
- Garden Suncatchers
- Marble-Painted Butterflies
- Colorful Butterflies (Free Printable Template)
- Big Butterflies
- Egg Carton Caterpillars
- Cherry Blossom Art
- Easy and Fun Spring Crafts
Colors
- Flower Color Sorting Activity
- Butterfly Color Matching Activity (from our Bugs Packet)
- Flower Colors (from our Garden Nursery Pack)
- Spring Flower Color Pattern Blocks Activity (Free Printable)
- Tulips Color Sorting (from our Spring Counting Packet)
- 20+ Color Activities
Light Table
Shapes
- Flower Shapes Activity (Free Printable)
- 25+ Shape Activities
Math
- Bug Numbered Puzzles (from our Bugs Packet)
- 1-20 Flowers (from our Rainbow Packet) – Also works on colors.
- Garden Number Puzzles (from our Garden Nursery Pack)
- Numbered Bunnies (from our Spring Counting Packet)
Sensory Bin
- Alphabet Flower Sensory Bin
- Too Many Carrots Garden Sensory Bin
- Spring Sensory Bins
- Spring Water Table with Rubber Ducks
- Frog Pond Sensory Play
- Frog Water Table
Music & Movement
- 25+ Music and Movement Activities
- Easter Playlist on Spotify
- Bugs and Butterflies Playlist on Spotify
- Spring Playlist on Spotify
Science
- How to Make An Easy Butterfly Feeder
- Sunflower Garden Activity
- How to Plant Seeds for an Easy Gardening Activity
- Terrariums in a Jar
- What Lives in the Pond? (Free Printable)
- Hands-On Spring Science Activities
Dramatic Play
- Flower Market Dramatic Play (with Free Printables)
- Garden Nursery Dramatic Play Set (from our Garden Nursery Pack)
- 25 Dramatic Play Ideas
Outdoors
- Nature Scavenger Hunt (Free Printable)
Writing Table
- Garden Flowers Printable Counting Book
- Spring Color Pages (Free Printables)
- Bug Coloring Pages (from our Bugs Packet)
- Bug Word Cards (from our Bugs Packet)
- Spring Bunny Coloring Page (from our Seasonal Coloring Packet)
- Easter Egg Basket Coloring Page (from our Seasonal Coloring Packet)
- Watering Can with Flowers Coloring Page (from our Seasonal Coloring Packet)
- Sunflowers Coloring Page (from our Seasonal Coloring Packet)
- Flower Coloring Outlines (from our Garden Nursery Pack)
- Fruit and Vegetables Coloring and Word Tracing (from our Fruits and Vegetables Packet)
Playdough
Cooking
Light Table
Skills
Fine Motor
Large Motor
Math
- Printable Butterfly Activity
- Printable Flower Activity
- Spring Counting 1-10 (Free Printable Mats)
- Bug Counting Puzzles (Free Printable)
- Count the Flowers
- Spring Math Activity With Flowers
- Easter Egg Counting (from our Spring Counting Packet)
- Spring 1-10 Counting Cards (Free Printable)
- How Many Frogs Are On The Lily Pads? (Free Printable Cards)
- 10 Spring Math Activities for Preschoolers
Favorite Collections
- 20+ Fun Toddler Spring Activities
- 15+ Spring Butterfly Activities
- Spring Flower Activities
- 12 of the Best Gardening Ideas
- 44 Outdoor Learning Activities
Books
Here are the books we will be reading in 2021:
- Caterpillar Spring: Butterfly Summer
- Ten Wriggly, Wiggly Butterflies
- Let’s Count Butterflies
- In My Flower
- The Little Gardener
- What Happens Next?
- My Garden
- Lola Plants a Garden
Here are is a collection of gardening books:
Montessori
- April Themed Activities for Kids (Living Montessori Now)
More Theme Ideas for April
Here are what other teachers from our Facebook Group are doing in April:
Farm
Around the World
Life Cycles
Looking for more theme ideas? Click here!
Spring Activity Plans
I’m so excited to be one of the authors of these hands-on activities for toddlers and for preschoolers!
Easy to follow plans include activity modifications and adaptations to meet the needs of all learners.
For more information, click on the graphics below:
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