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Your Ultimate Guide to Spring Fun for Kids
Spring is just around the corner! Soon the days will be longer, the air warmer, and nature will burst back to life. It is the perfect time to start planning ways for your kids to swap screens for sunshine and discover new ways to play, learn, and explore.
Here are some creative and refreshing ideas your kids will love. You might even want to join in too.
1. Visit your local Botanic Gardens in full bloom
Take a walk through flower-filled paths and encourage kids to notice colours, shapes, and scents. Sketching or photographing what they see strengthens observation, mindfulness, and curiosity while helping them connect with nature.
2. Nature scavenger hunt with a twist
Instead of just finding flowers or leaves, create clues based on colours, textures, or shapes like “something soft and green” or “something that smells sweet.” This sparks creativity, critical thinking, and observation skills while keeping kids active.
3. Mini garden lab
Give kids a small patch of garden or a few pots to plant herbs or vegetables. They can measure growth, track changes over time, and even taste their harvest. This activity teaches responsibility, scientific thinking, patience, and gives them the joy of seeing their efforts turn into real results.
4. Outdoor storytelling picnic
Pack a picnic and take it to a sunny spot. Each person adds a sentence to a story, creating hilariously creative twists. This builds language skills, imagination, collaboration, and a love for being outdoors.
5. Shadow art
Place toys, leaves, or flowers on paper on a sunny day and trace their shadows. Kids can then colour or decorate them, enhancing creativity, observation, and spatial reasoning.
6. DIY nature bracelets
Wrap masking tape sticky side out around wrists and let kids decorate with petals, leaves, or small treasures they find. This improves fine motor skills, attention to detail, and creativity while connecting children to nature.
7. Spring-themed photography hunt
Give kids a camera or phone and challenge them to capture spring colours, the first bee, or favourite flowers. This develops creativity, observation, mindfulness, and visual storytelling.
8. Make your own flower crowns
Collect flowers and greenery to weave into crowns or bracelets. It boosts fine motor skills, self-expression, and creativity while letting children enjoy a tangible, wearable reward.
9. Kite flying festival in the park
Make your own kite at home, then fly it in a park. Running, launching, and controlling the kite develops gross motor coordination, patience, and problem-solving, while kids experience the thrill of seeing their creation soar.
10. Rainbow bubble fun
Mix a DIY bubble solution and create giant bubbles outside. Kids explore cause and effect, coordination, and active play while being mesmerised by sparkling, moving rainbows.
Spring is all about fresh air, bright colours, and new beginnings. At Code Camp we’re gearing up for an incredible season full of adventure, creativity, and outdoor fun. For even more hands-on excitement, our Spring Holiday Camps are packed with coding, creative projects, crafts, and experiences your child will absolutely love.
Your Ultimate school holidays activity list
1. Get creative with Minions
What is it?
Kids go bananas for Minions (pun intended) and these school holidays they can express their fandom making a Minions movie using stop-motion animation techniques. Over 2 days, kids create their own Minions clay characters and design their own film set. The magic begins when they see their characters come to life by taking multiple images of objects and stitching them together to look like they’re moving! - It’s incredibly fun!
Why go?
If they watch their favourite animated movies on repeat, they’ll love creating Minions clay figurines and developing their own story, taking lots of still frames and stitching them together to create their very first movie!
Ages: 5-7
2. Become a DJ
What is it?
Children will take their first steps into the exciting world of mixing music to create their own DJ set.
Why go?
Kids will love mixing their favourite pop tunes using beat matching and transitions on real DJ decks. Plus, they will design their own DJ brand, develop branded merch, and even perform a DJ set to their friends!
Ages: 8-13
3. Pilot a drone
What is it?
Kids learn to pilot a drone using coding to design a flight path and watch in wonder as the drone takes flight!
Why go?
If your kid shows an interest in drones, they can learn more than just the basics of flying. Kids get a taste of cutting-edge technology and learn about coding, problem-solving, engineering, design, and more. They’ll learn about drone tech and safety, movie making, and discover how drones have a positive social impact when used to fight bushfires, rescue koalas, spot sharks on the coast and loads more!
Ages: 9-13
4. Become a YouTuber
What is it?
While they may not end up with YouTube stardom, we’re sure kids will have a new lens on screen time. They will be equipped with the skills to start producing and directing their own ideas instead of simply watching other people's! Plus, they’ll gain confidence ‘performing’ in front of audiences and on set and importantly, learn about staying safe online.
Why go?
Taking a YouTube fixation and turning it into something incredibly productive where kids will learn planning, storytelling, filming and video editing to become the star in their very own YouTube-style videos.
Ages: 8-13
5. Produce a LEGO movie
What is it?
Turn hours of playing with LEGO characters into an even more creative pursuit, by teaching kids to create their own LEGO Movie.
Why go?
They can use their favourite LEGO characters and sets, come up with a fun storyline and use stop-motion techniques to produce a short animation film. It will transform the way they play at home and offer endless hours of creativity for the rest of the holidays.
Ages: 7-12
6. Code a game
What is it?
Kids can design their own arcade-style video games (like Super Mario Bros), jam-packed with cool characters like zombies and unicorns, and awesome gaming features such as invisibility cloaks and shrinking potions. They’ll learn drag and drop code and logic to connect all the design elements together and bring their games to life!
Why go?
Kids are spending countless hours on Roblox and Minecraft these days. Get them to spark their creative side instead, by producing their own original games, using a combination of creative level design, storytelling and problem-solving to bring their creations to life. It’s so much fun, they won’t realise they are actually learning some very important coding and tech skills for their future.
Ages: 7-12
7. Develop a Website
What is it?
For kids with some proficiency in coding, they’ll create their own website from scratch about an animal, movie, sporting team or their favourite topic.
Why go?
With 1.93 billion websites on the world wide web, developers are in higher demand than ever before. It’s a great head start to gain fundamental web building skills and your kids will have so much fun in the process.