With rain showers, mud puddles, blooming flowers, and chirping birds, there is so much to see and experience in nature during spring. This collection of short spring poems for kids truly captures and celebrates the full joy and messiness of the season.
With some poems that rhyme and some poems in free verse, some classic poems and some silly poems just for fun, there’s something for whole family to enjoy below.
April is National Poetry Month
As April celebrates National Poetry Month, spring is the perfect time to read and explore poetry with your children. Ever better, try writing your own poetry together using this poem collection for inspiration!
PBS Kids has some great suggestions on writing poems with kids in this article: Your Child’s a Poet, and Here’s How to Show It.
Short Spring Poems for Kids That Rhyme
It Must Be Spring
By May Fenn
Hush, can you hear it?
The rustling in the grass,
Bringing you the welcome news that
Winter’s day is past.
Soft, can you feel it?
The warm caressing breeze,
Telling you the sticky buds
Are bursting on the trees.
Look, can you see them?
The primrose in the lane.
Now you must believe it —
Spring is here again.
Spring Song
Author Unknown
Frogs croak
Rains soak
Chicks peep
Crickets leap
Bees hum
Robins come
Birds sing
It’s spring!
Rain
By Robert Louis Stevenson
The rain is raining all around,
It falls on field and tree,
It rains on the umbrellas here,
And on the ships at sea.
April
Author Unknown
April is made of such wonderful things
Sunbeams and tulips and butterfly wings.
Spring
By William Blake
Sound the flute!
Now it’s mute.
Bird’s delight
Day and night;
Nightingale,
In the dale,
Lark in sky,
Merrily,
Merrily, merrily, to welcome in the year…
Buttercups and Daisies
By Mary Howitt
Buttercups and daisies,
Oh, the pretty flowers,
Coming ere the springtime,
To tell of sunny hours.
While the trees are leafless,
While the fields are bare,
Buttercups and daisies,
Spring up here and there.
Weather
By Marchette Chute
It is a windy day.
The water’s white with spray.
And pretty soon, if this keeps up,
The world will blow away.
To A Red Kite
By Lilian Moore
Fling
yourself
upon the sky.
Take the string
you need.
Ride high,
high
above the park.
Tug and buck
and lark
with the wind.
Touch a cloud,
red kite.
Follow the wild geese
in their flight.
Weather For All
By Lenore Hetrick
“I like rainy weather,”
Said the yellow duck.
“Not for me! I want the sun!”
The hen began to cluck.
“I think snow is great!”
Millie nodded her head.
“In spring the weather will please each one!”
The wise weather man said.
The Rainbow
By Christina Rossetti
Boats sail on the rivers,
And ships sail on the seas;
But clouds that sail across the sky
Are prettier far than these.
There are bridges on the rivers,
As pretty as you please;
But the bow that bridges heaven,
And overtops the trees,
And builds a road from earth to sky,
Is prettier far than these.
It’s Spring
By Winnifred J. Mott
Good-bye, snow! Good-bye, ice!
Though of course, you’re very nice,
I am glad you’ve gone away.
Leaving us this fine spring day.
Here’s my good old bat and ball!
Marbles, too! How are you all?
I am sure that I can play.
With you now, ‘most any day.
Good-bye, winter! Though it’s true
I’ve had lots of fun with you,
Now I just could shout and sing;
I’m so glad because it’s spring!
More Short Spring Poems for Kids
Barefoot Haiku
By Julie Meehan Courtois
I breathe in the Spring.
See Mother Nature winking.
Grass between my toes.
April Rain Song
By Langston Hughes
Let the rain kiss you.
Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops.
Let the rain sing you a lullaby.
The rain makes still pools on the sidewalk.
The rain makes running pools in the gutter.
The rain plays a little sleep-song on our roof at night–
And I love the rain.
Happy Spring Poetry Reading!
I hope you enjoyed reading these lovely spring poems that celebrate nature. Any other favorite short spring poems for kids you would add to this collection? I’d love to hear from you in the comments below.
