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15 Life Cycle Activities That Are Perfect for Spring

May 1 By Linda Kamp Leave a Comment

Here are 15 creative and hands-on life cycle activities that are perfect for Spring or any time. Find life cycle science experiments, crafts, writing activities, and fun ways to incorporate math. Plus lots of free printables to get you started!

Spring Life Cycle Activities

Life Cycle Projects for frog, butterfly and plant life cycles

3 Easy Seed Science Experiments

Teach the parts of a seed and plant, the stages of the plant life cycle, and more using lima beans.

Easy seed science experiments and parts of a seed activities for kids

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Learn How Leaf Shapes Help A Plant Get Light

A fun and easy lab for students to explore how the shape of its leaves helps a plant get light and make its own food.

Plants science activity & experiment

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Butterfly Life Cycle  Labs

Find cool hands-on labs and freebies to add to your butterfly life cycle activities. Don’t miss the free butterfly life cycle posters in this post!

Butterfly life cycle activities and science experiments for kids with free printables your students will love!

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Do a Pollination Simulation

This pollination simulation uses mac and cheese powder and is a favorite with kids!

Fun pollination science activity using macaroni & cheese powder and juice boxes for first, 2nd and 3rd grade students learning about the butterfly life cycle.

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Make Plant Life Cycle Portfolios

Teach the plant life cycle the FUN way and learn creative ways to get your kids writing about science. This post is filled with plant life cycle activities and science experiments exploring pollination, photosynthesis, parts of a seed and more!

Plant life cycle activities for kids-Hands on science activities perfect for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd grade students to learn about plant needs, adaptations, photosynthesis, pollination and more.

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Plant life cycle activities: Hands-on science for kids. Find creative, hands-on ideas for teaching kids about chlorophyll, pollination, germination, and seed dispersal that get students thinking, writing, and having fun! Ideal for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd graders learning about the life cycle of plants

See the flower booklet templates here.

Simulate Seed Dispersal

See how to build a simple model to show how seeds attach to animals and spread to new places.

seed dispersal science experiment lab sheet

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Explore Plant Needs with an Experiment 

Check out this plant and animals unit with lesson plans and labs to explore plant and animal needs and their life cycles. The teaching PowerPoint is phenomenal!

Plant needs science experiment aligned to 2-LS2-1

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Build Models of Bugs

Here is another fun way for students to model pollination by designing an insect, drawing a plan, and conducting a simulation. This lab is part of a complete plant & animals unit for 2nd grade.  See more of the unit here.

Pollination STEM science activity

Build Exploding Seed Pods

Try this fun STEM seed dispersal activity with clever ways to incorporate math!

Seed dispersal activity- A fun science experiment and STEM challenge for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd graders to learn about exploding seed pods while studying the plant life cycle. Students build a model of this plant adaptation and explore how seeds travel.

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Make Models of Plant Adaptations

Learn how to use dollar store craft supplies to make simple models of plant adaptations.

water plant adaptations model

Learn how here

Paint with Chlorophyll

Learn how to make chlorophyll paintings! This lab is a must-do and a great way to incorporate art into a plant life cycle unit.

Learn how here

Find Fun Ways to Take Notes About Frogs

Get tips for teaching students how to take notes while learning about the life cycle of frogs.

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Create a Life Cycle Garden

See how we turned our hallway into a life cycle garden! Get loads of ideas for lots of different life cycle activities and see hallway displays that are perfect for a Spring open house.

Life cycle garden hallway dsiplay

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Graph the Butterfly Life Cycle 

This is such a fun way to incorporate math while raising butterflies! See how we collected data and graphed the life cycle.

Graphing the butterfly life cycle-We collected data by recording significant changes in our caterpillars then graphed the life cycle on a graph for each stage.

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Use Kaleidoscopes to Look Through an Insect’s Eyes

“See” through an insect’s eyes using party favor kaleidoscopes or kaleidoscope glasses to simulate a compound eye.

Butterfly life cycle learning lab science experiment-Exploring a butterfly's compound eye.

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Make Butterfly Kids

Turning your students into butterflies makes creative writing even more fun! This free writing craft is a great way for students to use science vocabulary as they write personal narratives from the point of view of a butterfly! 

FREE butterfly Kids writing craft template.

Click here for the FREE Butterfly Kids templates.

I hope you’ve found lots of ideas you can add to your Spring life cycle activities and get your students writing about science! Be sure to pin this post for later so you have it when you plan!

Life Cycle Projects for frog, butterfly and plant life cycles

Happy teaching!

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