Happy First Day of Spring!

**Jenna** · 03-20-08, 08:27 AM

Spring has sprung! Happy First Day of Spring!

"The first day of spring is around March 20 or 21, depending on what day the vernal equinox occurs. This is when the sun sits directly above the equator on its apparent trip northward. Of course this sun isn’t moving; Earth is. As Earth revolves around the sun, the top half, called the Northern Hemisphere, becomes tilted more toward the sun as winter turns to spring. Meanwhile the bottom half, the Southern Hemisphere, becomes tilted more away from the sun. The beginning of spring for us is the beginning of autumn for people in Australia and the southern parts of Africa and South America." http://www.wxdude.com/spring.html

The vernal equinox falls on March 20 today because it is a leap year.

Are you going to do any of the following activities today?

Print out some of these Spring pictures to color.
Make home-made bubble mixture and go outside and blow bubbles!
Make a Bubble Picture.
Make Flowers and Garden crafts.
Make some fancy garden stepping stones to decorate your yard.
Make a unique rain hat using a clean, empty milk jug or perhaps this umbrella picture.
Trace your arm and use colored pop corn to make this neat tree full of blossoms.
If you are a sports fun you can try some of these baseball crafts.
As the bird start to return, why not make some birds of your own.
make some butterflies, ladybugs, and other bugs.
Make a frog craft.
Make and fly a kite.
Make your own rainbows.