5 Fun Spring Scavenger Hunts Your Kids Will Love

Spring is finally here and what better way to celebrate the changing seasons than with these fun spring scavenger hunts for kids?

Spring is such a wonderful time of year!

Try these spring scavenger hunts with your kids to help them appreciate all the special things that happen during this season.

From rainy days and puddle splashing to planting flowers and watching caterpillars crawl through the garden, these scavenger hunts will help you focus on many of the special things that are unique to spring.

The spring scavenger hunts you’ll find here are perfect for kids of all ages. There is no reading required, which means even the youngest of kids can fully participate!

Free Spring Scavenger Hunt printables for kids

To grab these cute spring scavenger hunts all you need to do is click right here or on the image below.

When you do, you’ll gain access to the spring scavenger hunt printables (as well as more than 100 other great printables for kids too!)

You’ll get these five different spring-themed scavenger hunts:

Spring Day Scavenger Hunt
Rainy Day Scavenger Hunt
Spring Activities Scavenger Hunt
Easter Scavenger Hunt
In the Garden Scavenger Hunt

To make everything crystal clear, let’s take a more in-depth look at each of the spring scavenger hunt printables next!

Spring Day Scavenger Hunt

Walk around the neighborhood and see how many of these signs of spring you can find!

Here’s a quick description of the items included in this scavenger hunt. We’ll go in order from top to bottom, left to right.

flower in bloom
sunshine
ladybug
new plant shoot
songbird
puffy cloud
bumblebee
butterfly
flowering tree
green leaf
flower bud
bird’s nest with eggs
birdhouse

Rainy Day Scavenger Hunt

While rainy days can feel like a downer, this cute rainy day scavenger hunt can help to make them way more fun for your kids!

For this scavenger hunt, your kids will need to find:

rain boots
gray rain clouds
a rainbow
drooping flowers
windshield wipers at use on a car
a snail
an umbrella
a raincoat
a puddle
footprints in the mud
a fat raindrop
a worm
lightning clouds

Spring Activities Scavenger Hunt

The spring activities scavenger hunt is almost like a bucket list of fun things to do in the spring. As you do any of these things throughout the season, cross them off.

It could be a fun family challenge to see how many you can do during March, April, and May!

Here’s the list of the activities featured on this spring scavenger hunt:

play soccer
splash in a puddle
jump rope
fly kites
go on a family hike or walk
blow bubbles
ride bikes
plant a garden
play baseball or softball
hula hoop together
have a family picnic
play at the park
pick flowers

Easter Scavenger Hunt

Perfect for the days and weeks leading up to Easter, this scavenger hunt is great for younger kids!

Here’s a quick explanation of the things to find for this scavenger hunt:

yellow decorated egg
jellybeans
purple bow
Easter bunny
Easter basket
chick
tulips
carrots
chocolate bunny
pink decorated egg
Easter peep
Happy Easter sign
cross

In the Garden Scavenger Hunt

Whether you plant a large vegetable garden or a few potted flowers, this Spring Garden Scavenger Hunt will give your kids something to do while you work!

The items for kids to find and circle for this scavenger hunt are:

watering can
gardening gloves
wheelbarrow
garden hoe
ants marching in a line
garden hose
bag of fertilizer
plant seeds
garden soil
shovel or spade
starter plant, such as a tomato plant
snail
young plants springing up through the soil

Variations for these spring scavenger hunts

While you can simply print out the scavenger hunt pages and have your kids find the items, you can also make this extra fun with a couple of easy changes:

1. Have a scavenger hunt competition

To have a scavenger hunt competition, divide your family, guests, or friends into several small groups.

Then you’ll need enough copies of the same scavenger hunt page for each group.

Give each group the same amount of time to work on the scavenger hunt. They can either cross items off the list as they see them, find and bring back the physical items, or do a photo scavenger hunt (more on that in a minute!).

The group that finds the most items on the page in a specific amount of time is the winner!

2. Organize a photo scavenger hunt

A photo scavenger hunt is lots of fun! For each item on the scavenger hunt checklist, players need to take a picture of themselves with the item.

This means each team will need a phone or other type of camera. Encourage teams to take silly or funny photos for extra points.

And if they can’t find a specific item, they could always take a photo of themselves impersonating it.

For example, if players can’t find a bumblebee for the Spring Day Scavenger Hunt or a line of marching ants for the Garden Scavenger Hunt, they could act them out and take a picture instead.

At the end of the scavenger hunt, it’s best to have each team share their collection of photos by screen sharing to a larger screen, such as a television. This way everyone can see each other’s photos.

You could even give a small prize to the team for the most creative or goofiest photo!

Final thoughts about these spring scavenger hunts for kids

Whether you add some extra challenges to these fun winter scavenger hunts, use them for a classroom or at-home party, or do them all at once or one at a time is totally up to you!

Whatever way you choose to use them, we hope you and your kids really enjoy them and that they help you find some great ways to connect as a family as spring arrives!

(If you haven’t downloaded them yet, you can get access right here!)

Will you be trying any of these free spring scavenger hunts this year?

5 Fun Spring Scavenger Hunts Your Kids Will Love

Hi there! I’m Jen and I’m so glad you’re here. I am a mom who believes that meaningful connections with our families can happen in small and simple ways. Read More …