You’ll Love These 30 Great March Activities for Kids

Last Updated on March 11, 2024

Spring is finally here and we are so excited for all the warmer weather things that happen at this time of year. But how can we make the most of this season? Whether it’s figuring out plans for the kids’ spring break, making an effort to spend more time outside or celebrating Easter, here are 30 ideas for March for you and your family.

Spring activities for preschoolers and younger kids

After the long winter months, it’s easy to feel like your family has been cooped up or bundled up forever! (Still getting some cold weather? Here are some great activities for snow days.) These spring activities for preschoolers and younger kids give a few indoor and outdoor options so that you can make this a spring to remember for you and your family.

1. Have a marathon story time. Pile together on the couch or on the bed and snuggle into an adventure — or a lot of little adventures.
2. Grab the roll of art paper and let your kids draw a table-length network of roads for their Matchbox cars, complete with buildings, trees, or whatever — or let them draw a house that their dolls can sit in. Take a few minutes to get down and draw with them.
3. Put a “do nothing” day on the calendar. Purchase fun snacks and veg doing stuff together all day: playing games, watching movies, going to the park — whatever a fun day looks like for your family.
4. Let ‘em camp in the backyard. (Or in the living room.) Make s’mores over the grill (or in the microwave) for an authentic-feeling (and -tasting!) snack.
5. Make a heap of creative greeting cards to send to people you love. As a bonus, take pictures of each other (maybe as you make the cards!), print them, and stick them in the envelope with your works of art.
6. Pick a Scripture verse or passage you think they can handle, and memorize it together. Decide on a reward if you can both do it!
7. Let them write, direct, costume, sell tickets for, and otherwise plan a play in the backyard. If they need starters, let them act out a favorite storybook or Bible story. Your role: the audience.
8. Have a playdate with a friend your kid has been missing. Or, challenge your son or daughter to invite someone new over who might be feeling lonely.
9. Get your heads together to plan one act of service this week — maybe as a surprise.
10. Have an ice cream sundae night.
11. Help them choose one thing they’d love to do this week (like sleep in, or have a friend over) and one project to tackle that they’ve been putting off (like cleaning the closet). Then develop a plan for both.
12. Take them out to lunch or breakfast, just the two of you.
13. Fly kites together.
14. Make sock puppets, and then put on a show. Or do the old-fashioned draw-on-your-hand and turn your hand into a puppet. Duck behind the couch and use the top of the couch as the stage. Have them act out a story they already know from a movie or something you’ve seen or read recently.
15. Sing old camp songs and teach the kids how to sing them.

Activity ideas for older kids

Wondering how to keep an older child entertained as we head into spring? The great thing about our kids as they get older is that we have a chance to really get to know them as people. You can lean into their hobbies, interests and personalities and shape your spring activities together to complement what they’re interested in doing! Here are a few spring activity ideas that are perfect for older kids and kids ages 8 and up!

1. Pick out a book you both want to read this week so that you can talk about it together. Here’s a great list of books on character and values that you both will enjoy!
2. Learn something new together. Maybe they’d like to learn how to sew, put together a model, bake bread, carve something, make candles, build something (bird feeder?), scrapbook — or even take a one-time class with you somewhere around town.
3. Put a “do nothing” day on the calendar. Purchase fun snacks and veg doing stuff together all day: playing games, watching movies, going to the park — whatever a fun day looks like for your family.
4. Pick a room to repaint and/or, within a budget, redecorate together.
5. Go local. Find something in your neighborhood or town that you haven’t done before and try it out!
6. Pick a night to plan and make a meal together.
7. Have a game night, but make it a tournament with a prize everyone wants: a day with no chores, a gift certificate to the movies, or a “date” with a family member of his or her choice.
8. Go on a spontaneous road trip, just the two of you!
9. Get your heads together to plan one act of service this week — maybe as a surprise.
10. Let them have friends over to make their own personal pizzas in cake pans and watch a good movie.
11. Take them out for lunch or coffee, just the two of you.
12. Go to a park with a picnic and maybe a good book. Relax and chat – no agenda!
13. Drive down a country road with Vivaldi’s Four Seasons blaring out your rolled-down windows.
14. In honor of St. Patrick’s Day being in March, challenge each other to speak with an Irish accent!
15. Backyard surprise dinner picnic.

All of these March activities for kids will help your month go by quickly AND fill it with great memories for you and your family. We recommend saving a few of these to do over spring break together to make the most of your time and sprinkle the rest throughout the month. Enjoy this special time of year for your family!

Okay, your turn: Which of these ideas for March your favorite? What are you doing this spring? And do you have any ideas for the rest of us?