• Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar

Teaching 2 and 3 Year Olds

  • Home
  • Start Here
    • Terms and Conditions
    • Privacy Policy
    • Printables Terms of Use
  • Subscribe!
  • Printables
    • Free Printables
    • Circle Time Printable Packets
    • Fall Printable Packets
    • Themed Printable Packets
    • Fine Motor Printable Packets
    • Dramatic Play Printable Packs
    • Literacy and Story Time Printable Packets
    • Color Recognition Printable Packets
    • Winter Printable Packs
    • Spring Printable Packets
  • Preschool
  • Toddlers
  • Lesson Plans
    • Preschool Lesson Plans
    • Toddler Lesson Plans
You are here: Home / Spring Activities / Spring Art for Preschoolers

This post might contain affiliate links. Click here for more information. Thanks for visiting!

Spring Art for Preschoolers

March 20, 2014 by Sheryl Cooper

Share
Pin
Tweet
Email

When the cherry blossoms bloom in the trees each spring, I cannot wait to add them to our art table with our preschoolers. Well, our toddlers, too! We love to bring nature into our classroom all year long. We have containers, baskets, and trays with natural materials. While the preschoolers and toddlers painted these cherry blossoms, they were able to explore the colors and textures. They viewed the blossoms and branches carefully as they painted them on paper.

 

spring art for preschoolers
…

What you will need:

  • Branches of cherry blossoms from your neighborhood

  • Pink paint

  • Brown paint

  • Sea sponges

  • Clothespins

  • Paper

  • Feathers

…


 spring art for preschoolers
 …
preschool spring art
…

Setting up this activity:

Place your cherry blossom branch cuttings into a container and place them on a table. Pour pink paint into a shallow container, as well as the brown paint with feathers. Attach the clothespins to the sea sponges and provide paper.

 

…

preschool spring art

…

preschool spring art

…

Inviting the children to paint:

While the children are noticing the cherry blossom branches on the table, invite them to notice the colors and the differences between the petals and the branches. Invite them to paint this on paper.

 …
preschool spring art
…
spring art for preschoolers
…
spring art for preschoolers
 …
Love the resemblance!
…
preschool spring art

 Adapting this for toddlers:

We taped 3 wine corks together for them to stamp the blossoms and branches on the paper.

 …
spring art for preschoolers
…

spring art for preschoolers
…
 
spring art for preschoolers
..

.

 

 

 

FREE CIRCLE TIME PLANNER!

Get your FREE circle time planner as a gift when you subscribe to my free weekly newsletters.

Here is my Privacy Policy

Success! Now check your email to confirm your subscription.

There was an error submitting your subscription. Please try again.

We won't send you spam. Unsubscribe at any time. Powered by ConvertKit
Share
Pin
Tweet
Email

Filed Under: Art, preschool, Spring Activities, Toddlers Tagged With: art, preschool, spring, toddlers

About Sheryl Cooper

Sheryl Cooper is the founder of Teaching 2 and 3 Year Olds, a website full of activities for toddlers and preschoolers. She has been teaching this age group for over 20 years and loves to share her passion with teachers, parents, grandparents, and anyone with young children in their lives.

Previous Post: « How to Put Together Preschool Small Groups, and Why They Are Important
Next Post: Teaching Colors to Toddlers and Preschoolers »

Reader Interactions

Comments

  1. Stephanie Schuler - Shorewood Preschool Teacher

    March 21, 2014 at 9:52 pm

    Great activity! Love the vibrant colors! Hopefully the cleanup process wasn’t too messy!

    • Sheryl Cooper

      March 22, 2014 at 7:09 pm

      Thanks, Stephanie! This was actually easier to clean up than other activities we’ve done. 🙂

  2. Beth Gorden

    April 4, 2014 at 10:08 am

    What a fun idea! Your cherry blossoms turned out so pretty! I pinned it.

    Thanks for linking up to TGIF! Have a great weeekend,
    Beth =)

Primary Sidebar

You can also find us here!

  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • Pinterest
  • Twitter
  • YouTube

Looking for something specific?

Categories

Welcome! I'm Sheryl Cooper, teacher of 2 and 3 year olds for over 22 years. Read more about me here!

More Printables!

preschool printables

Teaching 2 and 3 Year Olds is a participant in Amazon Associates.

preschool printables

Privacy Policy

Copyright © 2023 Teaching 2 and 3 Year Olds · Privacy Policy