INSPIRATIONS - spring

Looking for some spring nature activity ideas? Look no further!

Introduction

Welcome to Muddy Faces Inspirations: bringing together activities & ideas with a specific theme, to inspire your time outdoors playing, learning & connecting with nature. Follow the highlighted links to take you to our step-by-step activity guides.

We love spring at Muddy Faces. The days are getting longer and we can celebrate new growth. We’ve gathered all our spring activities into one place to give you some spring inspiration!

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Environmental Considerations

Consider the environmental impact of preparing, carrying out & completing this activity. Could this impact be reduced? Specific considerations for this activity could include:

foraging tips
leave no trace

Health & Safety Considerations

Follow your usual operating procedures and carry out appropriate risk benefit assessments.
Some considerations particular to this activity include:

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Spring Art & Craft

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Clay frog life cycle

A spring clay craft activity to help explore a frog life cycle.

More spring craft ideas

Decorated eggs

Decorate a wooden disc or a wooden egg and go for an Easter egg hunt/trail.

Dandelion clock mark-making using a toilet roll tube

Cut into the tube to create a dandelion clock shape & bend the cardboard flaps outwards (as shown in picture).

Dip in white paint and stamp onto a contrasting colour card.

Dandelion drawing

Super simple mark-making activity. Snap off a yellow dandelion head and start creating with the lovely yellow pigment.

Daisy designs

Spend some time with daisies and see what you can create. Who can make the longest daisy chain?

Try making a daisy caterpillar. Nip the stalk off a daisy as close as you can to the flower-end of the stalk. When this is nipped off you can see a little hole. Pick a daisy with a nice long stalk and feed the stalk through the hole - it will come out of the yellow part of the daisy. Keep nipping off daisy stalks and thread them on.

Spring recipe ideas

Nettle soup

A super simple spring and foraging nettle soup recipe. So tasty; give it a try!

More seasonal inspirations

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Spring - Gerda Muller

£5.99 exVAT

The spring version of this series of board books shows the joy of playing with lambs, sowing seeds, painting easter eggs and watching baby birds.

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Spring and Summer Nature Activities for Waldorf Kindergartens - Irmgard Kutsch & Brigitte Walden

£16.99 exVAT

A wonderful resource book for any Waldorf or Waldorf-inspired kindergarten. Encourage children to engage with the seasons as they build bird boxes, use plant dyes, make earthworm boxes, grow and cook fresh herbs, create Easter bowls and care for butterflies. As well as ...

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Spring Inspirations - free pdf download

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Disclaimer: Muddy Faces cannot take any responsibility for accidents or damage that occurs as a result of following this activity.You are responsible for making sure the activity is conducted safely.