Preschool Spring Cleaning Theme Activities & Lesson Planning Ideas
Below you can find tons of fun and engaging Spring Cleaning Activities!
Pick and choose the activities for your lesson!
Pick and choose the activities for your lesson!
Preschool Spring Cleaning-Lesson Planning Overview
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Download our Free Spring Cleaning Preschool Sample Activity Plan and see how simple themed planning can be when everything is organized and ready to go. This sample includes a week of hands-on activity ideas across learning domains — so you can spend less time planning and more time reading, exploring, and learning with your students.
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Featured Plan Activities
Below you’ll find activity ideas featured in our Library Fun sample plan.
Art & Creativity
Sponge Painting
Get colorful and creative with sponge painting! This hands-on activity is perfect for preschoolers to explore textures and colors while developing their fine motor skills. A great addition to your arts and crafts curriculum.
Dramatic Play
Pretend Laundry Space
Set up a space for laundry. Add washcloths, socks for folding, and clothes pins for hanging items to dry.
Building & Small World Play
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.
Language and Literacy
Spring Cleaning Word Wall Cards
This Spring Cleaning Word Wall Cards printable activity is perfect for preschoolers! Teach them essential cleaning vocabulary while they have fun matching words with pictures. A great addition to any spring-themed lesson plan.
Write Letters in Dish Soap
Using letter cards for a visual aid, 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.
Mathematics
Spring Cleaning Patterning Activity
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.
Sweeping Objects into 2D shapes
Using masking tape, tape 2D shapes on the floor, and have your student practice sweeping beans, pom poms or other objects into each shape.
Science & Discovery
Sponge Sensory Bin
The Sponge Sensory Bin Activity provides a fun and engaging way for preschoolers to explore textures and enhance fine motor skills. With various sponges, water play toys, and tongs, children can squeeze, pour, and transfer sponges while also practicing sorting, counting, and color recognition.
Physical Fine Motor
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.
Physical Gross Motor
Sorting Laundry Relay Race
Set up a relay race to get preschoolers moving. As children are going back and forth grabbing items to sort, challenge them to move their bodies in different ways.
Other
Chore Sorting Mat
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.
Ways I Help Clean-Up Sharing
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
Art & Creativity
Sponge Painting
Get colorful and creative with sponge painting! This hands-on activity is perfect for preschoolers to explore textures and colors while developing their fine motor skills. A great addition to your arts and crafts curriculum.
Dramatic Play
Pretend Laundry Space
Set up a space for laundry. Add washcloths, socks for folding, and clothes pins for hanging items to dry.
Building & Small World Play
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.
Language and Literacy
Spring Cleaning Word Wall Cards
This Spring Cleaning Word Wall Cards printable activity is perfect for preschoolers! Teach them essential cleaning vocabulary while they have fun matching words with pictures. A great addition to any spring-themed lesson plan.
Write Letters in Dish Soap
Using letter cards for a visual aid, 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.
Mathematics
Spring Cleaning Patterning Activity
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.
Sweeping Objects into 2D shapes
Using masking tape, tape 2D shapes on the floor, and have your student practice sweeping beans, pom poms or other objects into each shape.
Science & Discovery
Sponge Sensory Bin
The Sponge Sensory Bin Activity provides a fun and engaging way for preschoolers to explore textures and enhance fine motor skills. With various sponges, water play toys, and tongs, children can squeeze, pour, and transfer sponges while also practicing sorting, counting, and color recognition.
Physical Fine Motor
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.
Physical Gross Motor
Sorting Laundry Relay Race
Set up a relay race to get preschoolers moving. As children are going back and forth grabbing items to sort, challenge them to move their bodies in different ways.
Other
Chore Sorting Mat
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.
Ways I Help Clean-Up Sharing
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 Theme Preschool Activity Ideas
Pick and choose the activities that best fit your group, schedule, and interests.
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 PaintingGrab a new plunger from a dollar store and pair with paint for preschoolers to create a unique piece of art. View Member Instructions
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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
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. |
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From dusting, to cleaning dishes there is so much to do for spring cleaning! View Member Instructions
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*Create a Laundry SpaceSet 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!
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Reader Laurie C. created this adorable Laundry Space-Compete with a laundry basket and irons!
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*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. View Member Instructions |
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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
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*Build With SpongesAdd 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 CardsUse 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
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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
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 & ClipSupport 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 PatterningThis 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 MatchingEncourage 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 BubblesThis 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. |
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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 View Member Instructions
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*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 LineTake 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 |
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*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
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 CardsThese 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 PracticeThis 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 RaceSet 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 |
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Sock TossIntroduce 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
Pretend Painting from Juggling with Kids
Sweeping activity from Our Montessori Story
Spill StationAdd 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 SortingThis 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
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Share Family Chore PhotosSet up a display board where families can share photos and stories of the chores they like to do together.
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Fun ways for Preschoolers to Help with ChoresShare a list with parents that has fun ways for children to help out around the house View Member Instructions
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I Can Help With ChoresEach 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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