Spring fingerplays preschool

As I'm sitting and watching the butterflies and caterpillars outside my window, it reminded me of the fun lessons I used to teach the butterfly life cycle. In addition to doing fun butterfly crafts and writing

Find a lovely counting finger action rhyme - 10 Happy Flowers to print and learn on our blog. A color and blackline version are available - perfect for preschool and kindergarten.

14 Preschool Spring songs and fingerplays that are terrific for learning speech and language plus spring crafts for kids, game ideas and spring speech therapy activities.

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By using seasonal songs, you're reinforcing the current season, orienting the child to the time of year (and the concept of a calendar), introducing the life cycle, and reinforcing the fact that they adapt to seasons (ie: clothes, activities), whether or not they realize it.

Today we celebrated Spring! It's a little less climatic here in Arizona (where we don't really have winter), but we still do get to enjoy the weather like folks in other states do. Each child picked a colorful scarf on the way in to use throughout storytime. Memory Box: Rabbit (From Hurray for Spring!) We discussed what happens in the spring and then sang the song below using flannel pieces and doing the actions/raising our scarves when we shout, "HOORAY FOR SPRINGTIME" Flannel: Books…

Check out these fun spring songs for preschoolers! Perfect for adding movement into your day, creating smooth transitions, and having fun!

Try these playful songs and activities to jazz up circle time.

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