Spring Classroom Activities

Spring is coming up, and it often brings rapidly changing weather, some much-needed time off with Spring Break, and new opportunities for a fresh start! It is also a great time to freshen up your classroom activities and engage your middle school students in new and seasonal ways. This post will share some spring classroom activities and some ideas to bring the outdoors inside.

Teaching Ideas for Spring

Freshen up your teaching from the moment students walk into your classroom with these spring-themed daily agenda slides. You could also incorporate spring-related topics into your pre-existing lessons. Some examples of this could be research projects related to national parks, creative writing activities about the changing of the seasons or nature in general, or even math problems or data analysis about bird migrations, changing weather, or types of flowers.

Since students may be doing more silent reading as a result of some standardized testing that happens during the spring, we also have some spring-themed printable coloring bookmarks that might be fun for your students to use!

Finally, under the idea of “spring cleaning”, many students may benefit from taking some time to clean out their lockers, binders, folders, and more. As a bonus, prepare a list of classroom organizational projects that you can have your most organized students work on during this time! This will give both you and your students a fresh start.

Spring Classroom Decor

Decorating your classroom for spring is a great way to create a positive and inviting learning environment for your students. One way to do this is by incorporating natural elements such as flowers, plants, and nature-inspired artwork into your decor. Fake plants work too! You could also use spring-themed bulletin board displays, such as our spring-themed inspirational quote bulletin board.

Furthermore, you could also incorporate the use of natural light in your classroom by opening windows or using an essential oil diffuser with a fresh scent, if permitted by your district. During independent student work time, you could even consider playing some calming or inspirational instrumental music. It was easy to find versions of these on YouTube that were several hours long!

Spring Break Activities

In the days leading up to spring break, it can be a lot of fun to do a countdown activity. This goes beyond a simple countdown on the board. Instead, with this resource, there is a short activity to do with your students each day over the course of the 5 days before break! These activities include a spring trivia challenge, a mystery location challenge, a spring word scramble, a spring picture guessing game, and a spring word search! If you are only looking for an activity to do on the last day before spring break, we have a printable bingo game you can do instead.

One of our newest resources is this highly engaging game-based simulation that is perfect for the last day before Spring Break! In this activity, students will be planning a spring break trip for themselves and their friends. They will need to make many different types of decisions related to budgeting, problem-solving, and executive functioning skills as they prepare their trips! This no-prep simulation will be a lot of fun for you and your students!

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