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As the weather warms up, spring fever can become a reality in the kindergarten classroom! You can almost feel the room buzzing with excitement. One of my favorite ways to keep students engaged and on task during this challenging season is to add even more hands-on activities and craft projects to the daily learning routine. In this post, I’m going to share some of my favorite March crafts for kindergarten that can keep students engaged and motivated to learn.
All of the crafts that I’m sharing in this post can incorporate another subject area. This is a great way to keep students motivated to practice important skills when all they want to do is go outside and play! These craft activities are perfect for whole group lessons or small group activities. Students could even work on them during centers time!
Here are four of my favorite kindergarten crafts for March:
First, you can bring some St. Patrick’s Day fun to your classroom with a pot of gold writing activity. This fun craft will motivate students to practice their writing and fine motor skills!
After reading a pot of gold story together as a class, students can plan their own story about a missing pot of gold. Students will write about who the character asked in their search for the missing pot of gold and where they eventually found it. These stories are so fun for students to write and illustrate!
To add to the fun, students can create a pot of gold craft for the front cover of their writing, complete with a rainbow! This dot-painting rainbow craft is such an engaging way for students to practice their fine motor skills. As they use a cotton swab to create dots of color on the rainbow, they won’t event realize they’re hard at work strengthening their pincer grasp and improving their hand-eye coordination!
The completed crafts look adorable on a St. Patrick’s Day bulletin board. Students always feel so proud to see their published writing on display!
The St. Patrick’s Day crafting doesn’t have to stop there! You can also incorporate a seasonal craftivity into math practice during the busy month of March.
This leprechaun math craft can help students practice both addition and subtraction with one activity. Students will have a number written on a large gold coin that will be covered up by the leprechaun, who is holding two smaller gold coins. These smaller coins include an addition and subtraction equation that total the number on the large gold coin.
This craft is fun for students to make! They love to come up with equations that will help them get to the target number. It also makes for an interactive display, since students can guess what number is underneath by solving the two equations.
March is also a perfect month to learn about plants! Crafts are a great way to help students summarize everything they’ve been learning about plants. For example, they can create a tri-fold brochure with an adorable flower craft on the front cover.
First, students will fill out the pages for the inside of the tri-fold by writing about what plans need to grow as well as identifying the parts of a plant. They can also write and illustrate two of their favorite facts about plants.
Once the inside of the brochure is complete, students will turn their attention to the front cover. This flower craft is created with printable templates combinted with a cupcake liner for the petals. You can find cupcake liners with cute designs or you can have students decorate plain ones. Either way, the end result is a fun resource that students can take home to share with their families!
Finally, students can also put together an informative flipbook that summarizes everything they’ve learned about the parts of a plant. Even though this might not look like a traditional “craft”, it still encourages students to color, cut, and paste in one activity. This means students can experience all of the fine-motor-strengthening benefits of crafts while reviewing what they’ve been learning about plants.
For this activity, students will color the flower on the front of the flipbook, then they will match the vocabulary words with the correct definitions. The vocabulary words will be attached to the backside of each flap on the flipbook. When students lift each part of the plant, they will be able to review the name of that plant part and an explanation of what it does.
This is another example of a great resource that students can take home and share with their families. By discussing their creations at home, students get another chance to practice these new vocabulary words. This makes it much more likely that these concepts will “stick” for young kindergarteners!
I have put together a resource with all of the templates and detailed instructions you need for each of the craft activities pictured in this post. The best part is that these crafts are only a small part of the large number of activities included with this bundle of thematic units.
In addition to the fun March crafts, you’ll find engaging themed activities that you can use to put together TWO fun thematic units for your students: Spring and St. Patrick’s Day. These units are a great way to get your students excited about literacy and math practice while having some seasonal fun together as a class.
If you’d like to take a closer look at all of the activities included in this bundle, just click below to find it in the A Spoonful of Learning shop or in my TPT store.
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These alphabet books will have students dive deep into learning about each letter of the alphabet while eager to see what activity they get to complete next!
