WHAT TO DO IN MARCH, APRIL, & MAY
A spring bucket list for your family.
— By Julie Hodos on February 23, 2025
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The new buds appear on leafless trees, then small flowers poke their heads up from muddy ground, and bird song fills the air again. Oh how I love spring! Don’t you? In short, spring is a time for new beginnings and fresh starts. Above all, a time when mother earth awakes.
Why not romanticize this time of year when love is in the air? Let’s celebrate and cherish springtime with a spring bucket list for your family. This spring bucket list is perfect for the homeschooling family, as well as any family who wants to embrace all that this season has to offer.
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“March brings breezes, loud and shrill,
To stir the dancing daffodil.”
~The Garden Year by Sara Coleridge
Create the best spring bucket list for your family with a free printable.
There are 20+ items listed here and completing each one this spring is unrealistic for most families. Even those who are homeschooling. Instead, consider this a starting point. Overall, choose the activities that appeal to you and yours.
Firstly, include everyone in the choosing. The list of activities can be presented as a chart and then each family member takes turns selecting their preferred activity. Do this until 7-10 activities are chosen and try to keep it even among the kiddos.
On the other hand, you can cut the activities out and draw from a hat. This may help speed up the process and can be easier for little ones. In addition, the free printable can be found at the bottom of this post to download. Overall, make the process work for you and yours!
A practically perfect spring bucket list for your family.
Does an activity spark your interest? I have included links for you to follow to gain more ideas and inspiration, as well as links that will take you to printables that can assist you.
Indoor activities for rainy days.
- Firstly, make it rain in a jar.
- Secondly, make a rain stick from Gift of Curiosity.
- Thirdly, paint rocks for spring from Projects with Kids.
- Board games day on a rainy day.
- Learn to tie your shoes or to learn to braid.
- Learn old fashioned indoor games from Living in Happy Place.
- Make play dough together by Living Well Mom
- Dissect a fake frog.
- Make bird watching binoculars.
- Lastly, for indoor activities is the tadpole to frog kit.
More activity ideas for spring.
- To continue, a rainbow scavenger hunt by Wonder at the World.
- Read books about spring and the changing of the seasons.
- Memorize a poem.
- Flower pressing.
- Make art with nature, sticks, leaves, flowers, sweet gums, pinecones, etc.
- Splash in puddles.
- Fill hummingbird feeders.
- Hunt for four leaf clovers.
- Decorate a flower pot by Red Ted Art and then plant seeds in it.
- Learn about rainbows.
- Have a tea party on the porch.
- Plant wildflower seeds.
- Study birds and nests.
- Lastly, a nature clay impressions by My Bright Ideas Blog.
A spring bucket list for your family.
Above all, a spring bucket list should include experiencing nature, as well as activities to do during spring storms or dreary days. Pick and choose from this great selection then get out there and play.
Also, for your convenience I have created a PDF download with each of these activities listed on their own slip. Consequently, all you have to do is print and cut. This way you can easily include your kiddos in the choices in a fun way. Overall, embrace the beauty of springtime and get the free printable below.
Don’t forget to add poetry in your spring bucket list.
In conclusion, let me leave you with an end of spring poem, April written by an anonymous author. This poem can be found in the book The Illustrated Treasury of Poetry for Children, Edited by David Ross. This book is difficult to come by but a similar book is Doubleday’s Favorite Poems Old and New: Selected for Boys and Girls, edited by Helen Ferris. Ferris offers many spring poems but not not this particular favorite.
“Two little clouds one April day
Went sailing across the sky.
They went so fast that they bumped their heads,
And both began to cry.
The big round sun came out and said,
‘ Oh, never mind, my dears,
I’ll send all my sunbeams down
To dry your fallen tears.’”
Happy springtime to you and yours! Above all, I hope this spring bucket list inspires you to create memories this spring.
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