Spring Season Resources
Our Spring Season Resources capture the season of growth
Celebrate spring through art history, from blossoms and rebirth to rituals of renewal across the world. Explore our free videos and classroom-ready resources.
Renewal and Rebirth
Spring brings new life, and artists have long used flowers, gardens, and myths to symbolize beginnings.
Utagawa Hiroshige’s woodblock print “Plum Estate, Kameido" is from the series One Hundred Famous Views of Edo. It shows blossoms beginning to bloom in Spring.
Fertility and Festivals
Spring rituals have often celebrated fertility, abundance, and renewal of the land.
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Transformation and Growth
Spring is also tied to metamorphosis, both literal and symbolic.
Seasons and Cycles of Life
March
This manuscript page shows peasants preparing the fields for the agricultural season during March.
May
Nobles move through the forest on horseback to celebrate May Day.
April
Nobles in elegant clothing gather outside in this April scene.
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![Close-up of a snowflake resting on snow, showcasing intricate ice crystal patterns.]()
Winter
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![A close-up of a sunflower field under a partly cloudy sky, with one prominently in the foreground and others blurred in the background.]()
Summer
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![A misty forest path covered with fallen autumn leaves, surrounded by trees with orange and yellow foliage, with a wooden fence on the left side.]()
Fall
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Explore Continents
These Spooky Season bellringers are perfect to introduce middle or high school students to world history classes, art classes, and social studies classes! They focus on art from Mexico (Aztecs, Zapotecs, and Posada's calaveras), medieval and early modern Europe (dance of death/danse macabre and vanitas still lifes), East Asia (tomb figures and bats as symbols), and ancient Peru (Chavín). These are fun, easy warmups to any class, daily bell work, or even as substitute plans. They are also great early finisher activities.