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Are you ready for spring? My kids are still hoping for more snow, but I’m ready for some warmer weather! Which is why I’m excited to be cohosting the spring edition of the All Year Round Blog Carnival, along with sunnydaytodaymama, Winding Circle, The Mahogany Way, Smiling like Sunshine, and Home Baked!
Here are a few favorite spring activities from this blog:
- Searching for signs of spring
- Finding caterpillars
- Caterpillar to Butterfly craft
- Homemade sidewalk paint
- Photographic study of emerging Japanese Maple Tree leaves
- Biology: exploring plant buds
- Gardening
- Playing with rocks
- Playing in puddles after a rainstorm
What do your kids love to do in the springtime? The linky will stay open into May 15, when we’ll start a new linky for summer posts, so keep coming back as you blog about new activities – and to see new activities as they are added!
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All Year Round Blog Carnival: Spring
- Preparing For Spring
- Clothespin Butterfly
- Wild Garlic and Ricotta Gnocchi
- Caterpillar to Butterfly Craft
- Plant Lattice
- Bunny Bin
- 5 Ways to Help Your Baby Develop a Love of Outdoors
- First Beach Trip of 2012
- Daffodil Pinwheels
- Spring Flower Bouquet
- Make a garden journal
- Dutch Tulips
- Daffodil Bunting
- Ever wonder what you can do with carrots?
- Spring Drawings and Paintings
- Hand and Fingerprint Spring Mural, 17. Outdoor Literacy, 18. The Birds & The Bees!, 19. Simnel Cake, 20. Painting Spring Meadows,
21. Gardening at any age, 22. Bursting the cocoon! Caterpillar Fun, 23. Toddler Playground Game, 24. Spring Blossom Craft, 25. Fun things to do with carrots,
26. Simple Bird Craft, 27. Spring Activities, 28. Spring Books, 29. Pictures of Spring, 30. Nature Study Kit,
31. Sensory Garden, 32. Make a Plant Journal, 33. Leprechaun Traps, 34. Spring Planting, 35. Images of Spring,
36. Handprint Butterflies, 37. Lessons in swinging, 38. On the hunt for spring, 39. Angry Birds Eggs Craft, 40. 40+ Easter Crafts & Ideas to Inspire You,
41. What To Look for In Spring, 42. Discovery Bottles – The Four Seasons, 43. Spring Gift Bags, 44. Butterfly Window Decorations, 45. Water Beads frog spawn,
46. Spring Flower Spotting, 47. Looking at Nature, 48. Good Ol’ Fun, 49. Hunting for Spring, 50. Cotton Wool Lambs,
51. … Corner View, 52. Looking for Spring (a nature walk), 53. Lady Bugs, 54. Garden Dreaming, 55. Signs of Spring,
56. March 3rd, 57. Green Smoothies, 58. Ogre poo and other nature walk finds, 59. Perfectly Spring, 60. Spring Fairies,
61. Mini Beasts Spring Sensory Box, 62. Spring Flower Cupcakes, 63. learning all the time, 64. Weather Around the World, 65. Money Saving Gifts & Activities,
66. Colours of Spring, 67. Spring Snow!, 68. Spring Stones, 69. Spring Fun with Flowers, 70. Spring Crafts & Rainbow PomPoms,
71. Nature journal & nature books, 72. Egg Shell Candles, 73. 11 Children’s Books About Spring, 74. 10 Children’s Books About Gardening, 75. Spring Collage,
76. Ladybird Books, 77. Wetlands Field Trip, 78. Chocolate Easter Nests, 79. Grommet Island, 80. Spring at the pond,
81. Upcycled Jam Jar Vase, 82. Cherry Blossom Painting, 83. Frog Hunting, 84. Spring Joys, 85. 10 Out-of-the-Ordinary Spectacular Spring Activities,
86. Nature walks & nature game, 87. Spring, 88. Frog Books, 89. Happy Spring & Easter Crafting, 90. Celebrating Spring! Gardening with Kids,
91. Spring Basket Cookies, 92. Celebrating Spring!, 93. Nature Walk Art, 94. Four Spring-Time Activities, 95. Spring Time Visitors,
96. Signs of Spring Nature Hunt, 97. Felted Wands, 98. Spring in Texas!, 99. Hello Spring, A Walk and A Treasure Box, 100. Spring Fairy Salad,
101. Bird Nest Kit, 102. Cardboard Tube Planters, 103. Dirty Worms, 104. Tin Can Planters, 105. Tin Can Windchime,
106. Rock Bugs!, 107. Spring in our garden, 108. Exploring the great outdoors!, 109. Twin Veg Seed Planting, 110. Dying Play Silks,
111. Thumbprint Eggs Easter Basket, 112. Outdoor Play Kitchen, 113. 3 Spring Books, 114. Handprint Easter Card, 115. Frog Life Cycle,
116. Collage Easter Eggs, 117. Planting Seeds in Upcycled Containers, 118. The Farm, 119. Make your own Garden Turtle, 120. Springtime Tissue Art,
121. Ode to a Plum Tree, 122. Raincloud in a jar, 123. Hot Cross Buns, 124. Easter Nests, 125. Seeds of Change,
126. Wonderfull Spring Day, 127. Bird Nest Making, 128. A little color, 129. Grass Heads, 130. Sensory Bottle,
131. Simple Easter/Spring Craft, 132. The Wonder of being a chicken girl!, 133. Story Eggs, 134. C is for Carrot!, 135. D is for Daffodil!,
136. Bees & Ladybirds, 137. Sheep & Lambs, 138. Crispy Nests with a Twist, 139. 10 Frugal Ways to Enjoy Outdoors, 140. Nature Walks & Nature Window Display,
141. Spring Break, 142. 13 Must Do Garden Activities, 143. Spring Miniature Play-space, 144. Outdoor Tea Party, 145. Paper-mache Dinosaur Egg,
146. E is for Easter Eggs!, 147. Easter Moments, 148. Eggs, 149. Learn how to whistle with a blade of grass!, 150. Spring Colours,
151. Spring Nature Activities, 152. Digital Scavenger Hunt & Spring Nature Walk, 153. Garden Pot Stack, 154. How to build a Compost Bin, 155. Outdoor Kits,
156. Nature Wrist Bands, 157. Plant a Garden, 158. Everything Spring & Spring all around us, 159. Making a Raised Garden Bed, 160. Spring in the Desert,
161. Chocolate Egg Nests, 162. Planting a Sensory Garden, 163. 10 ideas for Plastic Eggs, 164. Playschool Fun, 165. April View,
166. Spring Colors in Nature, 167. Spring at the Farm, 168. Fairies at the Spring Ball, 169. Spring Nature Table, 170. It is so Wonderfull to have a friend,
171. Recycled Egg Snake, 172. Butterfly Foot Prints, 173. Pyramid Bowling, 174. More Playschool Fun, 175. 11 Ways to Make Gardening Extra Fun for Kids,
176. Garden Stones, 177. Homemade Bunting & Play House, 178. Handmade Outdoor Play Kitchen, 179. Spring Bucket List, 180. Happy Chocolate Day?
181. The Wonder of the 1st…, 182. A Fungus Among Us, 183. Frogs unit study, 184. 5 Reasons To Get Outside, 10 Things…, 185. a strawberry experiment,
186. Green Man plaque, 187. Celebrating the Wind, 188. Nature Bike Ride & Swirling Stick, 189. Felt Pinwheel Wreaths, 190. Outside Fun,
191. DIY Bird Seed Feeders, 192. Seals, shells and starfish, 193. Welcome Spring!, 194. Moss Garden Terrarium Tutorial, 195. Wildflowers,
196. 20 ways to enjoy Spring, 197. May Day Baskets, 198. The Very Hungry Caterpillar project, 199. Watercolor Flowers, 200. Nature Paths, Creek Play…,
201. Spring fields, 202. Leaves in sunshine, 203. Parrot tulips bouquet, 204. A new use for an old globe, 205. 20 Children’s Picture Books that Celebrate Spring!,
206. Maple Seed Mobile, 207. Spring Sensory Bin, 208. Stained Glass Butterflies, 209. Lots of Butterfly Work, 210. It is Wonderfull when a friend lends a hand,
211. Butterflies and Books, 212. How Does Your Garden Grow?, 213. Jo MacDonald Had a Garden, 214. Imaginary Play Fairy Garden, 215. Weekending,
216. Dandelions
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Spring is my favorite time of the year simply because the days are longer, and I love being able to go outside after coming back from work.
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maryanne Reply:
February 15th, 2012 at 3:03 pm
I LOVE the long days!
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I really missed the snow this year..we got a tid bit…a couple of times..but it melted right away!
Spring is always my favorite…so it can come anytime it would like! :)
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maryanne Reply:
February 15th, 2012 at 3:04 pm
Spring is wonderful!!!
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I feel like it’s Spring already here in Southern CA. Thanks for all the great ideas, I’ll be checking them all out for sure.
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maryanne Reply:
February 15th, 2012 at 3:05 pm
Wish we could have your weather for a week – love the season in MA, but miss the CA warmth!
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It is Spring here in Indiana we haven’t had a winter yet. Just two light snows following from KBN :-)
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maryanne Reply:
February 16th, 2012 at 10:18 am
We’ve barely had a winter in Massachusetts! Still time for snow here, though.
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Will have to check out some of yours and the link-up spring activities! I don’t have anything yet but I’m so excited for spring and will be back with a link when I do! Thanks!!!
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maryanne Reply:
February 16th, 2012 at 10:18 am
Looking forward to seeing your spring activities as you do them!
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We’ve been on a few hunts for spring this week with our camera and science journal. Can’t wait to share in our Afterschool Blog Hop on Sunday.
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maryanne Reply:
February 16th, 2012 at 10:19 am
No spring here yet – looking forward to your Sunday post!
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We are so excited for Spring. Abby likes to go to the park, go on walks and go to the zoo!
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maryanne Reply:
February 16th, 2012 at 10:20 am
Spring is wonderful!!! We need to go to the zoo again – went in the fall, and Lily still talks about it every single day!
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So fun! I posted a post from a while ago, but I’ll keep this carnival in mind as well start our spring activities. We just put out the composter yesterday, can’t wait to delve in to that with the kids!
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maryanne Reply:
February 16th, 2012 at 10:21 am
Composting with kids is both fun and educational – it’s pretty cool to see food scraps turn to dirt!
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So last night I was in the process of commenting when Jeff took the internet down. I finally had to resort to just opening your blog up randomly.
I LOVE spring in Texas, you can practically live outside.
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We’ve had springlike weather for many weeks already. Looking forward to beautiful flowers blooming!
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Thanks so much for hosting the carnival here MaryAnne and how wonderful to see so many great spring links already! :)
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