Spring sensory play activities for toddler, preschool, and elementary

Here’s a fun collection of spring sensory play ideas for toddlers, preschool and beyond. 

 

Spring sensory play activities

Whether your children love flowers, bugs, sticks or worms, these spring-themed sensory play activities are a great way to add some spring to your play this week.

You’ll find lots of ideas for using natural materials, and ways to include lots of colour, textures and imagination to your play.

My girls love the mud kitchen idea, and the fairy garden is my favourite.

Click through to see all the playful ideas.

 

Spring sensory play ideas

:: Give some little ducklings a bath!

:: Fill your own bathtub with daisies.

:: Create a frog pond.

:: Combine play dough with spring flowers

:: Set up a spring flower investigation table

:: Make your own ‘frog spawn’ for some messy play

:: Dig into a garden sensory tub

:: Set out some spring loose parts and let the children play

:: Get messy with a sensory tub full of ‘worms’

:: Cook up something delicious in a mud kitchen

:: Take some spring coloured sensory writing trays outdoors

:: Set up a sensory bin with sticks

:: Make your baby an I-spy-spring discovery bottle

:: Enjoy a pretty sparkle garden tub

:: Plant your own pretend garden

:: Combine sensory play and imagination with this multi-sensory fairy garden