Create colorful butterfly mobiles with your children to hang in classroom windows or from the ceiling. Butterflies symbolize new life and change. Assist the children in cutting out butterfly shapes from different colors of construction paper, tissue paper or colored wax paper. Have the children decorate their butterfly's wings with paper cutouts, markers, crayons and glitter. Punch holes in each finished butterfly. Tie one end of a string through each butterfly's hole and tie the string's other end to a stick or hanger. Hang the mobiles around the classroom.
Decorate your bulletin board to reflect the new flowers developing outdoors. Cover the bulletin board in green or blue butcher paper. Attach white construction paper clouds to the top of the board. Add blue raindrops falling from the clouds. Give each student a cutout of a flower and have her color and decorate it. Glue a picture of the child to the center of his flower. Staple the picture flowers along the bottom of the board below the raindrops. Add the title "April Showers bring May Flowers" across the top of your board.
Designate a corner of your classroom as the springtime corner to brighten the classroom. Cover the wall with blue butcher paper. Add a strip of green butcher paper at the bottom of the wall. Glue tufts of quilt batting and a yellow construction paper circle to the blue portion of paper to create clouds and the sun. You can let the children draw on the papered wall or make cutouts of flowers, trees and animals to decorate the wall.
Add color to your classroom with rainbow paper chains. This is a fun activity that will promote teamwork among the students while they make a spring rainbow to hang in the classroom. Divide the students up into seven groups. Assign each group a color of the rainbow and give each group a stack of construction paper in its corresponding color. Give the students a time limit of 10 to 20 minutes. Instruct them to cut out as many paper strips as they can and glue them together in a chain during the time. The group that makes the longest chain wins. Hang the resulting chains horizontally side by side on a classroom wall to create a rainbow.