Last Updated on February 24, 2025 by Masha Eretnova
Discover amazing and cute spring ideas kindergarten kids and toddlers, as well as older kids will love! From rock painting and painting on paper to decorating windows – this spring you can have fun with kids as much as you want.
There are flowers, cute animals, bunnies, butterflies, landscapes, and more!
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Essential Supplies to Paint Spring With Acrylic Paint
A good spring painting palette consists of primary blue and yellows. You’ll also want to include pink, grass green, white, and black. And don’t forget to add pastel colors!
Beginners usually buy the cheapest materials available. I suggest you get the best supplies you can afford. Cheap materials are typically hard to manage and quickly fade.
You’ll also need brushes, palettes, canvas or paper, and other supplies.
Read also: How to Paint with Acrylics on Canvas: 3 Easy Steps [Supplies included]
Spring Painting Ideas for Kids Of Any Age
Springtime is a flurry of activities; buzzing bees, chirping birds, and family picnics. Look outside and paint what catches your attention. Paint the landscape. Collect flowers and fallen branches. Use your camera to preserve moments like children flying kites or a couple walking.
White Daisy with a Bright Blue Background
A daisy symbolizes new beginnings! So, a daisy in full bloom is the first subject on our list.
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Delicate Butterfly
Exercise what you know about the color wheel by painting this beginner-friendly butterfly! Explore and identify colors that enhance each other as a group.
Peaches and Flowers and Easy and Realistic Tulip on Paper
Painting on paper without a rigid surface will create warps.
What should you do then?
Mount the paper on a panel by using pH-neutral glue.
Spring-inspired Winnie the Pooh Characters on Mini Canvas
Celebrate springtime by re-watching (or watching if you haven’t seen these films) some good old films set during the spring.
- Sleeping Totoro
- “I See the Light” Scene on Tangled
- Howl and Sophie on a Breezy Hill
Bring your beloved characters to life through your art. Experiment. Use a mini canvas if you like.
Cute Piggy
Remember the movie called Babe? Make her (or him?) cartoonish. Paint her pink and surround her with flowers.
Or perhaps Peppa Pig is a better subject, as she’s quite popular these days.
Bike with a Basket Full of Flowers and a Hovering Bee
For older kids this bicycle is a perfect painting that you can actually hang in your house!
Nowadays, biking is in. And like biking, learning how to paint requires patience and lots of practice.
Ladybug-painted Rock
Who knew you could make art using rocks? Rock painting is an easy activity you can do with your kids. Help them gather the rocks. And get your brushes, acrylics, and paint pens ready.
Paint the rocks with ladybugs or other insects your kids love. Find full lady bug tutorial here.
Flowers and Butterflies on Rock
Make this rock painting more alive by adding a background.
Flowers Spring Window Painting Ideas
In this project, windows and paint are all you need to bring the spring closer to your home (or store)! You can use tempera or poster paint. They are easy to clean using liquid soap.
Feel free to recreate the paintings below. Combine them in one scene. Or create your own:
Flowers are perhaps the most common spring-related painting. Use bright colors to make them pop!
Add other elements, such as an old car overgrown with plants, foliage, and butterflies:
Smiling Bunny Holding an Easter Egg
Paint bunnies and Easter eggs, as Easter (a Christian tradition), marks the start of spring!
Heimlich the Caterpillar from A Bug’s Life
Dandelion Painting Using Toilet Paper Rolls
Rather than use the same-old paintbrush, allow kids to start an adventure! Gather your household items they can use as brushes:
Don’t throw away toilet paper rolls. Transform one end of the roll into a brush by cutting strips. Flatten the strips outwards. Dip them in the paint and start painting!
Spring Painting Idea For Collage
This project uses a foam bottle washer. Help the toddler dip the washer into the paint until they get used to it.
Let the paint dry. The artist made a lovely collage of flowers after the paint dried.
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Bird on Fabric Spring Painting
Birds as a subject matter are easy enough for toddlers and kindergarten! As you can see, the artist chose crayons to paint a bird on a fabric.
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Read also: Can You Use Acrylic Paint on Fabric? , and if something went wrong…..Is Acrylic Paint Washable ?
Field of Tulips Spring Finger Painting Ideas For Kids
Finger painting is messy, but it’s a good introduction to arts for toddlers and kindergarten. Fingers are great for making stripes and dots!
Have them paint adorable bugs or lovely flowers. Bright-colored butterflies on mugs might also interest them!
Finger-painted Lavender
Colorful Birds on a Clothesline
Bugs and Insects
Wrap-up
I hope the collection of spring painting ideas for kids above brought you the inspiration you needed for your project whether you’re a parent or a teacher.
For more painting ideas, I’ve also written easy Christmas and winter canvas painting ideas for beginners, and 53 Easy Spring Crafts For Kids (From Babies To Elementary)
Masha Eretnova, born in 1991, is a Buenos Aires-based certified teacher, artist, and member of the Professional Artist Association with 20+ years of personal painting journey.
She started painting and drawing very early and is now an international abstract artist and educator passionate about acrylic painting, gouache, and crafts.
Her works are part of international exhibitions and contests, including ArtlyMix (Brazil), Al-Tiba 9 (Spain), Exhibizone (Canada), Italy, and many more.
Besides her artistic pursuits, Masha holds a post-grad diploma in Teaching Film Photography and 2 music school diplomas: piano and opera singing.