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The Spring Play Fix

$15.00 Original price was: $15.00.$10.00Current price is: $10.00.

28 simple spring play ideas for kids ages 2–6.

The Spring Play Fix is a four-week guide filled with low-prep activities that support early learning through sensory play, creativity, and exploration inspired by the season.

✔ 28 spring play invitations
✔ 4 weeks of simple daily activities
✔ Low-prep materials you likely already have at home
✔ Activities supporting fine motor skills, sensory play, and creativity

Created by Desiree Blanchard, founder of Love Bloom & Learn — a play-based learning community trusted by 500,000+ families and educators.

Categories: printables, Seasonal Play Fix Tags: low prep kids activities, play-based learning, preschool learning activities, screen-free activities for kids, spring activities for kids, spring activities for preschoolers, spring activities for toddlers, spring homeschool activities, spring play ideas, spring sensory play, toddler learning activities
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The Spring Play Fix

Simple, Playful Learning for the Spring Season

The Spring Play Fix is a four-week guide of spring play activities for kids designed to help families slow down, explore, and learn together during the spring season.

Spring is a time of curiosity, movement, and discovery.

Instead of feeling busy or overstimulated, it can become a season filled with fresh air, creativity, and meaningful play.

That’s why the Spring Play Fix includes 28 simple, low-prep spring play ideas that support early learning while fitting into real family life.

What These Spring Play Ideas Offer

Each day includes one clear play invitation. Because of this, you don’t need to plan, research, or overthink.

Every activity includes:

– Step-by-step guidance
– Minimal supplies
– A short explanation of how the play supports your child’s development

Most importantly, there’s no pressure for perfection. The focus stays on connection, curiosity, and exploration.

What’s Inside

Inside the Spring Play Fix, you’ll find:

– 4 full weeks (28 days) of spring-inspired play ideas
– Clear sections for each activity, including:
– Goal
– Supplies
– How to Make
– Try This (simple extensions)
– Behind the Play (developmental support)
– One calming image per activity designed to inspire without overwhelm

The activities support:

– Sensory exploration
– Fine- and gross-motor development
– Language and early literacy
– Emotional regulation
– Creativity and imagination

This guide is designed for children ages 2–6, with easy adaptations for mixed ages.

Why Families Love the Spring Play Fix

Families love this guide because it feels simple and realistic.

For example:

– Supplies are minimal, and most items are already at home or from the dollar store
– Activities are quick to set up and easy to follow
– Play feels seasonal, playful, and intentional

In addition, the guide is flexible. You can follow the full four-week rhythm or simply choose an activity when it fits into your day. As a result, play feels doable again.

A Gentle Approach to Play

This isn’t a rigid schedule or formal curriculum.

Instead, it’s a gentle guide that meets families where they are.

Especially during the spring months—when children are naturally curious about the world around them—this guide helps bring playful learning into everyday life in a simple, approachable way.

Who It’s For

The Spring Play Fix is for:

– Parents who want less screen time and more meaningful play
– Families looking for simple seasonal activity ideas
– Educators or caregivers seeking adaptable learning invitations
– Anyone who believes play should feel joyful, not overwhelming

Format

– Digital download (PDF)
– Ready to print
– For personal use

Created by

Desiree Blanchard, MHK, ECE
Founder of Love Bloom & Learn

Looking for cozy seasonal activities too?
Explore the Winter Play Fix for simple winter play activities designed to support creativity, connection, and playful learning during the colder months.

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🍎✨ Attention, everyone in their Apple era! ✨🍎 Her 🍎✨ Attention, everyone in their Apple era! ✨🍎

Here’s a fun, sensory craft your little ones will love: Bubble Wrap Apple Trees! 🌳🎨

📝 How to do it:
1️⃣ Cut a tree top shape and trunk out of bubble wrap.
2️⃣ Use your paintbrush to paint the bubble wrap. 
3️⃣ Dip a Q-tip in red paint and add “apples” right onto the tree of the bubble wrap 🍎🍏
4️⃣ Flip your painted bubble wrap onto the paper, gently pat it down, then peel back to reveal your apple tree masterpiece! 🌟

💡 Learning Benefits:
〰️Builds fine motor skills while painting & pressing 🖐️
〰️Encourages creativity and sensory exploration 🎨
〰️Teaches cause & effect through printmaking 🍃

Quick to set up, super fun, and guaranteed to bring smiles! 💕
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A recycled paint board made from nothing more than A recycled paint board made from nothing more than cardboard scraps, leftover packaging, bubble wrap, egg cartons, paper tubes and paint.

I love invitations like this because there’s no “right” way to create. Children can explore how different materials hold paint, notice the textures and patterns they make, mix colours, layer marks and decide what each little piece might become.

It’s art, sensory exploration, problem solving and loose-parts play all happening together — using materials that were headed for the recycling bin.

Save your scraps. Hand over the paint. See what happens. ♻️🎨

#RecycledArt #ProcessArt #CreativeKids #EarlyChildhoodEducation #LearningThroughPlay
A little letter matching with a spooky twist. 🕷️ A little letter matching with a spooky twist. 🕷️

I turned a piece of cardboard into a spider web, added a letter to the centre of each spider using dot stickers, then placed the matching letters onto toy cars.

The challenge? Zoom each car across the web and find the spider with its matching letter.

Such a simple way to bring early literacy into play while also encouraging letter recognition, visual scanning, matching, fine motor control, and hand-eye coordination.

Sometimes changing how a child practises a skill is all it takes to make familiar learning feel completely new again.

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➡️Follow @lovebloomlearn for more easy play ideas! 🧚‍♀️

To recreate this activity, use a large ziplock bag, remove the logo with an alcohol swab or nail polish remover. Take a permanent marker and draw spiders. Add hair gel and googly eyes! For older kiddos, you can put a number on the spider and work on counting/addition/subtraction. Have fun! 🕷️

👶🏼👶🏽👶🏾Activity is recommended for toddlers and preschoolers +. An adult should supervise all activities. 

✨🌈For more easy play ideas, check out my “Baby and Toddler Caregiver Play & Milestone guides.” It’s loaded with tips, milestones & play ideas! 🔗Link in bio. 

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🎃🍁SAVE FOR FALL! We had so much fun with these sim 🎃🍁SAVE FOR FALL! We had so much fun with these simple activities! Which one is your favourite? 

➡️Follow @lovebloomlearn for more easy play ideas! 🧚‍♀️

👶🏼👶🏽👶🏾Activity is recommended for toddlers and preschoolers +. An adult should supervise all activities. 

✨🌈For more easy play ideas, check out my “Baby and Toddler Caregiver Play & Milestone guides.” It’s loaded with tips, milestones & play ideas! 🔗Link in bio. 

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“Children are building themselves in moments adult “Children are building themselves in moments adults are tempted to overlook.”

It’s easy to notice the big things — the first word, writing their name, learning to count, finally mastering something they’ve been working toward.

But development is happening long before the finished skill shows up.

It’s in the child who watches for ten minutes before joining in.
The one who repeats the same play again and again.
The child who changes their plan when something doesn’t work.
The conversations happening beside the water table.
The questions that seem to come out of nowhere.

So much of childhood development happens in these ordinary moments.

Children are gathering information, testing ideas, building language, learning how their bodies work, figuring out relationships and slowly making sense of the world around them.

Not every moment needs to look productive to be valuable.

Sometimes our job is simply to notice what’s already happening.

#ChildDevelopment #EarlyChildhoodEducation #LearningThroughPlay #PlayBasedLearning #ChildLedLearning
✨🧙🏻‍♀️Okay, this one was so much fun. We loved mak ✨🧙🏻‍♀️Okay, this one was so much fun. We loved making these magic Halloween potions! 🎃

➡️Follow @lovebloomlearn for more easy play ideas! 🧚‍♀️

To recreate this activity, use any small container (we used 5 oz plastic juice containers), fill them halfway with vinegar and add sparkles and food colouring. Shake it up! Then, add a scoop (about one tablespoon) of baking soda. Watch the ✨magic✨ happen. We added spiders and eyeballs for extra fun! Enjoy! 😘

👶🏼👶🏽👶🏾Activity is recommended for toddlers and preschoolers. An adult should supervise all activities. 

✨🌈For more easy play ideas, check out my “Baby and Toddler Caregiver Play & Milestone guides.” It’s loaded with tips, milestones & play ideas! 🔗Link in bio. 

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Summer may be coming to an end, but outdoor play d Summer may be coming to an end, but outdoor play doesn’t need to.

We often associate being outside with warm weather, but children benefit from outdoor play across every season. Time outside gives children space for bigger movement, changing sensory experiences, appropriate risk-taking, problem-solving and the kind of open-ended play that naturally follows their curiosity.

And as the seasons change, so does the learning.

Leaves fall. Temperatures shift. Puddles freeze. Shadows change. New sounds, textures and questions begin to appear. The same outdoor space can offer an entirely different experience from one month to the next.

From an educator lens, I don’t see outdoor time as a break from learning.

It is learning.

So while summer may be ending, we’ll keep heading outside — just with a few more layers. 🍂

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