Let’s learn about the seasons with this selection activities to celebrate the Spring Equinox with children.
Let’s connect our children with their planet, combining science, nature and arts and crafts as we learn about and celebrate the Spring Equinox.
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Activities to celebrate the Spring Equinox with children
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In these Spring Equinox lessons children can:
:: learn about the Sun and Earth’s relationship
:: learn why we have seasons
:: learn about the solstice and the equinox
:: celebrate the spring equinox with a range of lesson plans, crafts, and activities that you can use for a one-day celebration or a season long nature curriculum
What is an equinox?
The way the Sun, Earth, and Moon move around in relation to each other gives us our day and night; our spring, summer, autumn, and winter; and the cycle of the natural year.
One important thing to know is that the Earth is tilted. As it moves around the sun it doesn’t sit straight upright with the North Pole exactly at the top and the South Pole exactly at the bottom. Instead, it leans to one side a little.
This tilt is very important, because it means at certain times of the year more of one part of the Earth is facing the sun than at other times. This tilt gives us our seasons.
In December the northern part of Earth is titled away from the sun, and this means we get the least hours of sunshine – giving us long nights and the shortest day of the year. It’s when people living in the northern part of Earth have winter.
By March, the Earth has moved further around the sun, and now the tilt means that the sun is facing right at the middle of the Earth. The rays of the sun are shining on the northern and southern parts of the Earth equally. This means we get about the same number of hours of day time and night time.
We call this time of year spring, and the day of the year when we have the most equal day and night is called the Spring Equinox.
After the Spring Equinox the tilt of the Earth means we will get more of the sun’s rays shining on our part of the world each day. The days will get longer, and the nights will get shorter, all the way through to the longest day of the year at the Summer Solstice in June.
People living in the southern hemisphere have their seasons at the opposite time of year to us, so when we are having spring, they are having autumn.
(You can find children’s activities for the autumn equinox here.)
When is the Spring Equinox?
In 2025 the Spring Equinox in the Northern Hemisphere is on Thursday 20th March.
Activities to celebrate the Spring Equinox with children
Here’s a fun selection of ideas you can use to learn about spring and celebrate the equinox with your children.
Learn why we have seasons with this lesson plan and printable.
Spring clean your classroom with these tips.
Set up a spring nature table.
Plan a spring feast using seasonal foods.
Make a spring wreath for your door.
Use these carrot number printables to add a spring-theme to your math lessons.
Stretch your body with this simple spring yoga routine.
Decorate with botanical egg decorations, paper plate birds and pretty daffodil crafts.
Start growing seeds for your garden.
Explore a spring sensory tub.
Download my complete Spring nature study curriculum here.
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You’ll get a set of lesson plans all based on the equinox: learn about what the equinox is, make a spring mini-book with our printable guide, spring clean your classroom, make a spring wreath, go on a spring nature walk study, and enjoy a spring yoga routine. Plus you’ll get fun printables to make your teaching even easier.
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First post I read of yours and it is really lovely and gave me lots of ideas for our homeschool. But I must say that I was super excited to see that you and I have the same biscuit tin (the one on the left of the picture where you have the sprig table). My girls call it the pretty tin because they love the texture and colours of the tin. They always want the tastiest biscuits to go into that one.
Thank you for the fun and inspiring post.
Nice to be tin twins with you, Lotte! I do like a vintage tin.