Weaving into Spring

3/5/2026

"Where flowers bloom, so does hope"
--Lady Bird Johnson

The sun is warming the air and our bodies once more. We are starting our time outside earlier and earlier, and Grandmother Maple has had her red blooms out long enough to begin leafing! There's been a lot of laughter in the sunshine, snacking on violets, and learning about the crawlies and the furries of springtime.

Spring is such an incredible reminder that even after things have been cold, dark, and quiet, light and life can always return. When you least expect it, the sun's warm rays come back and everything is bursting with joy and color once more.

Birds and Eggs and Nests, Oh My!

This spring we have our eyes and ears open for all the changes coming our way. And what can we all hear in the mornings once again? Birds!
We are learning about birds, the nests they make, and their eggs.

We pretended to be mama and papa birds while we gathered sticks, then we sanded the twigs so they would be nice and smooth.

Then we cut yarn and felt beaks and wrapped our bundle of twigs with the yarn.

Everyone was super excited to use the hot glue gun to help our baby birds come to life with wings, eyes, and a beak to eat worms with.

Everyone wanted nests for their baby birds too!

Birds collect and use all kinds of materials to make homes for their babies. We braided all of our dancing scarves together to then sew and create a nest!

Creating eggs and nests from clay! We are getting hands-on with exploring these incredible creatures that call these mountains their home and are just excited as us for the warming of the weather.

Creating Our Own Bird Paradise

On their own inspiration the kids made this community bird collage and turned it into a counting and identifying game.

Weaving rainbows, weaving flowers, weaving love

A Spring Scavenger Creation

We are going on a scavenger hunt! Looking for all the signs of spring, we collected leaves, grasses, and flowers to help us create our Nature Letters

Then came the best part -- GLUING!
All the flowers and plants we collected were then pasted onto paper with letters for S P R I N G
There were stickers for sticking, markers for marking, and washi tape to help make it all so colorful

All the hands and fingers (and footprints) that went into their work got to be seen at the Spring Potluck!

Dandelion Cookies

Ingredients:

1/4 cup coconut oil
1 egg
1/4 cup coconut sugar
2 Tbls maple syrup
2 tsp pure vanilla extract
1 1/2 cups blanched almond flour
2 Tbls coconut flour
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp sea salt
1/4 cup chopped pecans
1 cup fresh dandelion petals

Preheat oven to 350 F
Mix melted coconut oil and egg until relatively smooth; add coconut sugar, maple syrup, and vanilla and blend until combined.
Add the flours, baking soda and salt and blend again. Make sure you've incorporated all those dry ingredients, especially the coconut flour.
Fold in nuts and dandelion flowers by hand.
Scoop onto a parchment paper lined baking sheet with a nice sized spoon. Press them down a bit to flatten them to 1/2 inch.
Bake 10 minutes or until browned around the edges.

Slumberkin of the Month: Lynx!

We have been learning with Lynx about Self Expression. He is showing us the value in sharing how we feel and being honest about what we need. It's a skill to be perfected over our lifetime, tuning into our emotions and then actually sharing them with others. Lynx shows us this is not only possible, but important!

Lynx also particularly ties into our main approach to conflict resolution. The practice of stating our needs, desires, and boundaries and learning how to do so with respect is brought up often throughout the day. We learn about speaking up for ourselves when we don't like how we're being treated, to use words to let the other person know what it is we don't like or want to be different, and we practice requesting what we do want.

We loved these coloring sheets of Lynx and his friends

Lynx helping us with math! We worked on counting, drawing numbers, and representing them in different ways, such as colored boxes (a graph!)

Rolling and Addition

Symmetry Paintings

Carrot Garden

With springtime comes bunnies, and with bunnies come all kinds of carrot-y stories. Upcycling bits and pieces of egg carton, we painted and created our own carrot garden!

The Wacky World of Germs!

We did a science experiment demonstrating the effect of soap on germs. Using black pepper to represent the "germs" or "bacteria," the kids dipped their fingers in a bowl with plain water and pepper to become speckled with black

The germs on our skin are all hugging each other very tightly! So they stick to us. We talked about how we have germs all over our bodies--inside and out. And how important lots of them are to keeping us healthy

Some germs also get us sick. And keeping our hands clean helps us stay healthy, and helps the people around us stay healthy. The kids then dipped their finger in soap and tried to dip again in the black pepper/water mixture

With the soap on our fingers, the black pepper suddenly jumped away! You can see how most of it has moved to the outer edge, forming a ring. The soap acts as a buffer, helping break up the surface tension from the germs all "hugging" each other, and allows us to wash them off

Playing With Color

Using butterfly pea tea, we experimented with what happened to the color when we added drops of lemon juice. The acidic juice created a more and more vibrant purple color compared to the blue from before!

Sound and Rhythm

Playing in the Flowers

Our forsythia bushes bloomed practically overnight! Big and yellow, the kids are attracted to them like honeybees, wanting to play and decorate themselves

Flowers and Light

When we work together to build a ramp, everyone gets to play harder!

BUGS!

Our creepy, crawly friends are back with the warming weather, and we are celebrating them inside and out :)

Feels so good to use our bodies in the sunshine! What looks like just a pile of stuff is creative and kinetic play at work. We love encouraging cooperation, and the tactile feedback from lifting such heavy, bulky blocks helps calm, ground, and tire-out children.

The girls work on a building project as a team, and build themselves a sweet firepit

Our new sand for the season arrived! Always so exciting when the sandbox gets refilled. Big gratitude to Mama Lindsay and Papa Chad!

X marks the spot! We've loved creating treasure maps, and then going on treasure hunts to see what we can find in the courtyard. Sparkly sequins, bits of thread, or even a cool stick or rock all count as treasure!