Preschool Spring Cleaning Theme

Discover a variety of preschool Spring Cleaning themed activities that introduce children to the joys of helping, organizing, and caring for their environment—both indoors and out. This page is packed with learning objectives and fun, hands-on ideas for small group, whole group, and independent learning centers to support your early childhood program. Use the buttons below to quickly navigate to each section!

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Preschool Spring Cleaning Theme Planning  Section

Below, you'll find our Theme Map outlining key topics to explore, suggested learning objectives to guide your lessons, and a free activity plan to help you get started. Club Members can download our Spring Cleaning theme planning guide and all of our printable resources and instruction pages for free inside our Activity Library! Not a member? Learn More Here

Preschool Spring Cleaning Topic Ideas & Learning Objectives

Here are some suggested preschool learning objectives for a Spring Cleaning theme:
Self-Help & Life Skills
  • Demonstrate increased independence in cleaning and organizing tasks (e.g., wiping tables, picking up toys).
  • Follow multi-step directions during classroom clean-up routines.
  • Take responsibility for personal belongings and shared classroom spaces.
Fine Motor Development
  • Strengthen hand muscles through actions such as spraying, scrubbing, squeezing, and folding.
  • Practice pouring, wringing, and using cleaning tools like dustpans, brushes, and cloths.
  • Develop hand-eye coordination through sorting and organizing tasks.
Cognitive & Math Skills
  • Sort objects by size, type, or category during clean-up or organizing activities.
  • Recognize and match pairs (e.g., sock matching or toy sorting).
  • Understand and use positional language (e.g., under, inside, next to) during cleaning routines.
Language & Literacy
  • Learn and use vocabulary related to cleaning and organizing (e.g., wipe, sort, fold, sponge, spray, tidy).
  • Participate in discussions and read-alouds about responsibility and helping.
  • Follow oral instructions with increasing accuracy.
Social-Emotional Development
  • Work cooperatively with peers during group clean-up activities.
  • Show pride in helping care for the classroom and shared environments.
  • Understand that cleaning up is a way to show respect for people and places.
Creative Expression & Dramatic Play
  • Role-play household routines in dramatic play areas (laundry, dishes, sweeping, etc.).
  • Use imagination while pretending to clean, organize, and take care of a home or classroom.
  • Engage in storytelling and conversation about ways to help at home or school.

Spring Cleaning Preschool Activity Plan

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Spring Cleaning Preschool Activities

Below you will find some of our favorite activities for this theme. Click on a button below to find specific activities by type, or visit our free Preschool Activity Library to find even MORE Preschool Activities for this theme! Use the yellow arrow to return to the top!

Sponge Painting

Put those sponges to work with a fun process art experience.
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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!
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Plunger Painting

Grab a new plunger from a dollar store and pair with paint for preschoolers to create a unique piece of art. View Member Instructions

​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

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, Feather 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!  View Member Instructions

*​Create a Laundry Space

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

Add a tool bench to the space,
​perfect for repairing items around the house.  Utilize a toy tool bench or put together a basic repair center age appropriate that children can use to fix items around the house such as tape, rubber mallets, and glue. 
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Create a Child-sized Mop

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

A Car Wash Dramatic Play invitation is full of good clean fun and learning! Use our car wash dramatic play pack to make setting up your car wash a breeze. Buy Now
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Spring Cleaning Small World Play ​

Add cleaning supplies to your dollhouse or small-world play buildings. Add a small basket of pompoms to your space as well. Children can drop them onto the scenes they build and then sweep them up with paintbrushes or mini brooms. View Member Instructions

*Build With Sponges

Add a variety of sponges for preschoolers to build with. Older preschoolers can use scissors to cut the sponge blocks to customize. 
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Scrubbing Bubbles Seek and Find Letter Mat

Practice letter recognition and uppercase/lowercase matching with this Spring Cleaning themed Flip and Find Letter Matching from the ​Pre-K Printable Fun. Buy Now
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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.
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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. Buy Now
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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. Baking soda can be added to thicken the mixture. View Member Instructions
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

*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.
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*Spring Cleaning Patterning

This Spring Cleaning Patterning Activity Printable is a fun and educational preschool activity! Teach your little ones about patterns while they enjoy cleaning chores in a playful and engaging way. Perfect for hands-on learning at home or in the classroom. Buy Now
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​Color Sweep Matching

Encourage your preschooler's color recognition and fine motor skills with our Sweep it up Color Matching Mats activity! Watch as they have fun sweeping and matching colorful objects on these printable mats. Perfect for home or classroom use! Buy Now
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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. 

*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 View Member Instructions

*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

Tired of running out of bubbles?  Check out this bubble recipe to make your own at home! View the Blog Post or View Member Instructions
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Clothes on the Line

Take activities outside to enjoy fresh air and nature while engaging in play.
​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? View Member Instructions

*Fill and Squeeze Sponges

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

Add rags, dish soap, and water a bucket, or sensory bin and have them wash down the outside toys. Our Car Wash Dramatic Play Pack enhances this experience with signs, labels, and forms to complement the activity. 
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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.
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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

​Folding Washcloths

Set out a stack of washcloths and have young children practice folding them.
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Sponge Shape Clip Cards

These sponge shape clip cards are a fun and hands-on way to teach preschoolers about shapes! They will love matching the clips to the correct shape and it's a great activity for developing fine motor skills too. Perfect for busy bags or morning work! Buy Now
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Pre-Writing/Cutting Practice

This fun and engaging printable preschool activity is perfect for little ones who are learning to write and cut! Help your child develop fine motor skills while having a blast with this pre-writing/cutting practice activity. Great for homeschooling or as a hands-on activity at school! Buy Now
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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. View Member Instructions

Sock Toss

Introduce preschoolers to the concept of spring chores with this engaging movement cube activity. Designed to promote physical activity and cognitive development, this activity encourages children to perform various movements and actions associated with springtime chores. Watch as they have fun while learning about responsibility and the changing seasons.
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​More Spring Cleaning Preschool Ideas to Support Physical Development

Laundry Match Game from No Time for Flashcards
Pretend Painting from Juggling with Kids
​Sweeping activity from Our Montessori Story

Spill Station

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.
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​*Chore Sorting

This chore sorting mat printable is a fun and educational preschool activity that helps teach kids how to sort and categorize different household chores. Perfect for developing fine motor skills and fostering a sense of responsibility.
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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.  Buy Now
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Ways I help clean-up

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. View Member Instructions
Washing/Drying Clothes from Inner Child Fun
Spring Cleaning Tic Tac Toe from Tried and True Blog

Share Family 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  View Member Instructions

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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Spring Cleaning Preschool Activity Pack

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Spring Word Wall & Writing Activities

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Spring Sensory Bin Scavenger Hunt Activities

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Learning Centers

Preschool Learning Centers are commonly referred to as Preschool Centers, or Learning Spaces. These are activity areas dedicated to a specific type of of play and exploring a variety of topics and activities. Download our Free set of Center Signs!