Spring is such a fun season — it’s getting warmer,flowers and trees are starting to bloom, and summer is just around the corner.
And now that many kids are having to adjust to workingfrom home, it’s the perfect time to spruce up your home classroom with some funseasonal decorations.
Here are some creative and educational ideas for springclassroom door decorations, all of which can be done with things you’ve alreadygot at home (or are easy to buy online).
Paper florals
Flowers are quintessentially spring, and it’s so easy tomake colorful floral decorations from nothing but paper or card.
If you have them on hand, paper plates make excellentflower petals. And if you have paint supplies, let your kids paint their ownflowers or decorations, like butterflies.
To make decorating your door an educational activity, task your kids with recreating their three favorite flowers — naming them, and telling you where they’re typically grown, as they go. You can even combine this creative activity with some worksheets about flower types and facts.
Handprintflowers
What kid doesn’t relish the chance to stick their handsin paint?
For little ones, encourage them to make a flower or birdand butterfly wings from their whole handprint. For older kids, they can useeach finger to print a petal, going around in a circle until the flower iscomplete — a great way to develop their motor skills.
Print letters to make a slogan like “never stop growing” or ask your kids to come up with their own spring-related mantra that they can write in their best handwriting.
Butterflies
If you have access to a range of colored card, a rainbowbutterfly wall is a great way to add brightness to any room. Print a butterflyoutline to use as a stencil; you’ll probably want about 8-10 butterflies foreach color. If your kids are old enough to use scissors, they can help you cutthem out as their creative —but focused — activity for the day. Forartistic students, ask them to decorate the plain card to something morespecial.
This display looks especially nice hanging near awindow, where it can catch the sunlight; a nice reminder that, soon enough,we’ll be able to go outside and enjoy the warmer weather!
Round your session off with a butterfly facts worksheets — did you know that there are 28,000 species of butterflies in the world? — or even some quiet time for butterfly wing coloring in.
Suncatchers
If your “classroom” door has a pane of glass in themiddle, why not make a suncatcher that can hang there and brighten the room?
These are super easy to make and a great toddler-friendlycraft. All you need is cupcake cases and some colored tissue paper. Thin paperworks just as effectively and you can add other decorations like beads,sequins, or even pasta.
Base your design around spring flowers, animals, or any other uplifting image! Whatever you choose, engage your child in a conversation about what it is, where it comes from, and some fun facts for them to remember.
Hungrycaterpillar
Spring is the perfect time to read (or re-read) The Very Hungry Caterpillar with yourkids. As the weather gets warmer, you’re a lot more likely to see bugs andcrawlies in your backyard or neighborhood.
Embrace this by teaching your children about caterpillars and other bugs, and decorating your classroom door with a hungry caterpillar of your own. Use green plastic plates, painted paper plates or green card cut into circles — you could even use green balloons if you have them lying around!
Cloudsand rain
With April comes April showers. This is a funny and cuteway to celebrate the rain without getting wet! Sure, it does take a littlework, but it looks amazing if you canpull it off.
There are a couple of ways you can make the cloud,depending on what supplies you have on hand. For a super fluffy,realistic-looking cloud, try using polyester stuffing. You can fluff it into acloud shape (or just mold it around a paper lantern), then hang it from yourceiling with fishing line.
An easier option is to use white balloons, which you canarrange in a cloud formation. Then cut out blue water droplets and hang themfrom the cloud with string or fishing line.
How much does your child know about how clouds form? Help them learn with cloud cycle worksheets.
Birds
Now that it’s spring, birds are out and chirping everymorning. Pay them tribute with this classroom door idea, which looks complexbut is actually really easy to replicate.
Brown craft paper can be twisted to look like a tree’sbranches — or you could even use butcher’s paper or packing paper. Cut outleaves from green card and then either draw your own birds or print off somecolorful cartoons.
Bonus points for including types of bird found in your local area, and teaching your child about their migration patterns.
Chainlink rainbow
Another way to bring a bright splash of color to yourclassroom, these rainbow chain link decorations are super versatile. You canarrange them in an arc on your door, hang them from the ceiling, or string themalong the walls.
Links are easy enough that even young kids can make them — all you need is strips of colored card or paper, and glue. Depending on your child’s age, try our Colors worksheet pack. You can simply ask them to name each color as you go. Or you can teach them a thing or two about primary colors — that red mixed with yellow makes orange, and blue mixed with yellow makes green — and how the human eye sees color.
Bees
Bees are really fascinating creatures — did you knowthey can be found on every continent other than Antarctica?
Your little one will love learning all about bees, and hives, and honey while making your very own bee-inspired door decoration. If you’re not so artistically inclined, there are plenty of free printables you can find online — use them as a template or just print them off in color and stick them to your door. Easy!
