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Spring Colors

Children will learn about signs of spring and illustrate a spring scene.

Lesson Plan

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Steps

  • Step 1

    Have children discuss sights they see during spring. Discuss how the colors of spring appear as the days get warmer and longer and the sun causes new green leaves to grow on trees, colorful flowers to bloom, and gray skies to turn blue. Goldfinches that sported greenish brown feathers during the winter turn bright yellow in the spring. Snowshoe hares that were white during the winter in order to be camouflaged in the snow now turn brown. Migratory birds return to northern areas, adding more color to the environment.

  • Step 2

    Ask children to illustrate a spring scene. They might depict flowers, trees, animals, or anything else that portrays the colors of spring.

  • Step 3

    When their art is done, have the children present their illustrations and discuss the scene they created.

Standards

SCI: Use observations to describe patterns of what plants and animals (including humans) need to survive.

SCI: Make observations to determine the effect of sunlight on Earth’s surface.

Adaptations

Have the class collaborate to choreograph a dance about spring. Encourage them to use moves that represent leaves forming on branches, flowers growing out of the ground, blooms opening up, animals emerging from the cold winter, etc.

Read a book such as "The Spring Book" by Todd Parr, "Goodbye Winter, Hello Spring" by Kenard Pak, or "Abracadabra, It's Spring!" by Anne Sibley O'Brien and Susan Gal. Discuss how the various characters celebrate the arrival of spring.