Preschool Spring Cleaning Theme

Below you can find tons of fun and engaging Preschool spring cleaning activities!

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Planning your Spring Cleaning  Theme

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​Spring Cleaning Theme Planning Guide for free!
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Download our Free Spring Cleaning Preschool Sample Lesson Plan

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Sponge Painting

Put those sponges to work with a fun process art experience. See the tutorial here from Pre-K Printable Fun

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Mop Painting

Create a temporary art piece by painting the cement outside with water and mops!
Take a photo of your ephemeral art before it dries!

​More Spring Cleaning Preschool Art Ideas:

*Painting with Kitchen Scrubbers from Laughing Kids Learn
Chalk Spray Painting from Teaching 2&3 Year Olds
Sponge Flower Painting from Mess for Less
Mop Painting from Teach Preschool
Plunger Painting from Teach Preschool
Sponge Stamping from It Happens in a Blink

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Spring Cleaning Your Space

Add Spring Cleaning items to your Dramatic Play Space this week such as: Child size Brooms, Mops, Dustpans, Empty Spray Bottles, Sponges, Father Dusters, Cleaning Brushes, Cloths, and Buckets.

There are plenty of outdoor chores too! Add rakes, watering cans, gloves, pretend lawn mover, Brooms,  and Garbage Cans outside as well.

From dusting, to cleaning dishes there is so much to do for spring cleaning! 

*​Create a Laundry Space

Set up a space for Laundry. Add washcloths, socks for folding, and Clothes Pins for Hanging items to dry.

A big thank you to our friends at Cherie's Learning Tree for sharing these fun photos with us! 

Reader Laurie C. created this adorable Laundry Space-Compete with a laundry basket and irons! ​

*Prepare for Repairs

Reader, Felecia of Mrs. Felecia's Playhouse Preschool added a tool bench to the space,
​perfect for repairing items around the house. 

Create a Child-sized Mop

DIY Kids Mop for under $2 from Pre-K Printable Fun

Car Wash

A Car Wash Dramatic Play invitation is full of good clean fun and learning! Check out what's included in our Car Wash Dramatic Play Pack

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Clean It Up

Add pom poms to your block center. Children can drop them onto the scenes they build and then sweep them up with a little broom. 

*Build With Sponges

Make your own sponge blocks tutorial from Inner Child Fun

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Flip and Find Letter Matching

Practice letter recognition and uppercase/lowercase matching with this Spring Cleaning themed Flip and Find Letter Matching from the ​Pre-K Printable Fun Spring Cleaning Activity Pack

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Learn with Sponge Letters

Create sponge letters to support preschoolers in learning how letters are formed. This is an engaging literacy and tactile experience for young children.
Find the details on how to make your very own set on my blog post DIY Sponge Letters

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*Spring Cleaning Word Wall Cards

Use Spring Cleaning Word Wall cards to label the items in your space or to your writing center. This set is included in ​the Pre-K Printable Fun Spring Cleaning Activity Pack

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Write Letters in Dish Soap

Using letter cards for a visual put dish soap in a dish or in a plastic bag for students to practice writing their letters.

Let's Clean Up! by Jenna Laffin
Maisy Cleans Up by Lucy Cousins
Henry Helps Clean His Room by Beth Bracken and Ailie Busby
Henry Helps with Laundry by Beth Bracken and Ailie Busby
Dust Everywhere by Robert Rosen and Chiara Fiorentino
The Berenstain Bears and the Messy Room by Stan Berenstain and Jan Berestain

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*Spring Cleaning Count & Clip

Support math skills like counting aloud and numeral recognition as well as fine motor coordination with these Spring Cleaning Count and Clip Cards from ​​Pre-K Printable Fun Spring Cleaning Activity Pack

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*Spring Cleaning Patterning

Spring Cleaning patterning practice from Pre-K Printable Fun Spring Cleaning Activity Pack

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​Color Sweep Matching

​Broom and Dustpan color matching activity from ​Pre-K Printable Fun Spring Cleaning Activity Pack

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*Positional Phrases Laundry

 Use a laundry basket to practice positional phrases and multiple part directions. 
You can have your preschooler do this using their body or have them use clothing. 
Practice: above, under, beside, on top, below, next to, behind, and in front. 
Once preschoolers master these, move on to multi step directions "Sit on the basket, then stand behind the basket"

*Sweeping Objects into 2D shapes

Tape 2D shapes on the floor, and have your student practice sweeping beans, or other objects into each shape.

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Make your own Bubbles

Make your own bubble solution using our
easy to make recipe!

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Clothes on the Line

Take activities outside to enjoy fresh air and nature while engaging in play Laurie S. of There's No Place like Home Daycare added this adorable clothesline to her outside space.
​For an extra science element, get the clothes wet outside, then hang to dry. Compare clothes hung on the line to those left to dry in a basket, which ones dry faster?

Wash the Dishes

Set up a dish washing station for children to practice cleaning dishes, be sure to add some bubbles for sensory exploration. 
Outside you can set up a dish washing station in your Mud Kitchen. Have children compare the results of cleaning their mud pie tins using just water and then using soap and water. 

*Fill and Squeeze Sponge Sensory Bin

Add cut sponges, and containers, to a sensory bin. Encourage students to soak the sponges and fill the containers by squeezing the sponges. 

Wash the Cars

Add rags, dish soap, and water a bucket, or sensory bin and have them wash down the outside toys. 

Ivory Soap Experiment

Have an adult place a bar of Ivory soap in the microwave on a microwave safe plate for one minute. Let students talk about how the soap looked before and after you placed it in the microwave. After you allow the soap to cool about 2minutes or so. You can place the soap in a sensory bin for students to explore. Check out our tutorial for this activity.

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More Science & Discovery Ideas

Rock Cleaning from Learn with Play at Home
Car Wash Sensory Bin by My Mundane & Miraculous Life

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​Folding Washcloths

Set out a stack of washcloths and have young children practice folding them.

Sponge Shape Clip Cards

Clothespins are great for preschoolers to develop fine motor skills and hand-eye coordination. 
Pair clothespins with these Sponge Shape Clip cards from the  ​​Pre-K Printable Fun Spring Cleaning Activity Pack

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Pre-Writing/Cutting Practice

Spring Cleaning Pre-Writing Page Pre-K Printable Fun Spring Cleaning Activity Pack

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Sorting Laundry Relay Race

Set up a relay race to get preschoolers moving. 
Place a pile of laundry on one side of the room. Include 3-4 different categories of laundry such as socks, hats, gloves, and shirts. 
On the other side of the room set up a basket for each category. As children are going back and forth grabbing items to sort, challenge them to move their bodies in different ways. 

Gross Motor / Active Play: Sock Toss

Set out a laundry basket and have students toss clean socks into the basket. If they make it, have them take a step back and try again. Another way to play is have students get in groups of two and toss the socks to each other. When they catch it have them take a step back to continue the challenge.

​More Spring Cleaning Preschool Ideas to Support Physical Development

Laundry Match Game from No Time for Flashcards
Hanging Clothes from The Preschool Experiment
Pretend Painting from Juggling with Kids
​Sweeping activity from Our Montessori Story

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​Sweep Up

Add a small dustpan and broom to messy areas in your learning space such as the sensory table. This way children can be responsible for cleaning up their messes and practice this important life skill. 

​*Chore Sorting

Explore different chores that can be done to contribute to the classroom and home community. 
Spring Cleaning Chore Sorting from Pre-K Printable Fun Spring Cleaning Activity Pack

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Classroom Job Chart

Create a job chart so children can each contribute to the classroom community. This is great to start during Spring Cleaning week and keep doing all year-round.  Classroom Job Charts from Pre-K Printable Fun 

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Ways I help clean-up (drawing or discussion)

Encourage students to share how they help clean-up at home or around the classroom.
Create a group drawing or record the discussion ideas on a poster or chart.

​More Spring Cleaning Preschool ideas for Social Studies

Create a cleaning station in your learning environment. How We Montessori has a wonderful guide here. 

Washing/Drying Clothes from Inner Child Fun
Folding Washcloths from The Princess and the Tot
Spring Cleaning Tic Tac Toe from Tried and True Blog
​Folding Clothes from The Wonder Years

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Ten Little Bubbles

This Ten Little Bubbles Song is an easy song to sing with your preschoolers, and can be found on YouTube.
Sing each day, after the second or third day blow some bubbles for the children as they sing or bring circle time outside and sing with a bubble machine. 

Share Chore Photos

Set up a display board where families can share photos and stories of the chores they like to do together. 

Fun ways for Preschoolers to Help with Chores

Share a list with parents that has fun ways for children to help out around the house like this one, 11 Fun Ways for Preschoolers to Clean Up from Hands on as we Grow

I Can Help With Chores

Each day ask children to find one chore to do at home with their parents, ask them to share what chore they did the next day. 

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