Encourage your children to embrace their inner artist and draw spring tulips with crayons before painting with watercolors. You'll build fine motor skills, nurture their creativity and ignite their imaginations! This tulip project includes some lines that are ideal for practicing pre-writing skills too - zig zag, downstroke, slanted downstrokes, clockwise loop and ovals. 
- remind them how to hold a crayon correctly
- demonstrate how to draw a simple tulip shape with a straightforward count of 5 strokes (see video below)
- have some real tulips or flowers near your drawing space if you can for children to observe and sense
- use different shades of pink, yellow, purple, and blue, with green for the stems and leaves
Once you’ve shown your students how to draw a simple tulip shape they can experiment and express their unique interpretations, adding their own creative touches - such as adding a bumblebee hovering over the flowers or a butterfly flitting through the air.
After drawing, read some stories and poems about spring and the growth of plants with your children. Talk about spring:
Preschool and Kindergarten Spring Discussion Starters
Blossoming Trees:Spring is when trees come alive with vibrant blossoms, creating a beautiful tapestry of colors. What do you notice about the trees near our school?
Chirping Birds:
Chirping Birds:
As the weather warms, birds return from migration and fill the air with their cheerful songs. Have you heard the birds yet? What do you notice about the birds?
New Life:
New Life:
Spring is a time of new beginnings, with baby animals being born and plants sprouting from the ground. Let's make a list of new life we can see around us.
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