Also see Rain and Rainbows, Wind, Summer, Autumn, and Winter.
Page Toppers
- April showers bring May flowers
- As Fresh as Springtime
- A bouquet of springtime
- Celebrate Spring
- A day in May
- Enchanted April
- Everything Sprouts in Spring
- First Signs of Spring
- First Warm Wind
(song by Kat Eggleston)
- Hop into Spring
- Hopping Into Spring (frog, rabbit)
- Hurrah for Spring!
- Nothing is so beautiful as Spring
- Out Like a Lion, In like a Lamb
- In the Merry Month of May
- It's Finally Spring
- It's Not That Easy Being Green
- Nothing is so beautiful as spring
- One Fine Day
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- Red, Red Robin
(song by Lui Collins)
- The Rite of Spring
- S is for Spring
- Spring Cleaning
(song by John McCutcheon)
- Spring Days
- Spring Fever
- Spring Fling
- Spring Happy Spring!
- Spring Has Sprung
- Spring (in full color)
- Spring is bustin' out all over
- Spring is in the Air
- Spring is Just Ducky
- Springtime
- Springtime Pleasure
- Take time to smell the flowers
- Twixt Winter and Summer
- A very "buzzy" Spring
- When Spring Comes In
(song by the Copper Family)
- Winter is History!
- Winter is Past
- Winter's Come and Gone
(song by Gillian Welch)
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(Many of these page toppers were compiled by Jean Gifford. They are for free distribution only.)
Quotes
- And the Green Grass Grows All Around, All Around
- Every spring is the only spring
- The first of April is the day we remember what we are the other 364 days of the year. (Mark Twain)
- The first day of spring is one thing, and the first spring day is another. The difference between them is sometimes as great as a month. (Henry Van Dyke)
- Flowers and butterflies drift in color...illuminating spring.
- For every person who has ever lived there has come, at last, a spring he will never see. Glory then in the springs that are yours. (Pam Brown)
- If spring came but once a century instead of once a year, or burst forth with the sound of an earthquake and not in silence, what wonder and expectation there would be in all hearts to behold the miraculous change. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
- Science has never drummed up quite as effective a tranquilizing agent as a sunny spring day. (W. Earl Hall)
- Spring is nature's way of saying "Let's Party!"
- Spring is when you feel like whistling even with a shoe full of slush.
- Spring, thy name is color. (Libbie Fudim)
- Though April showers come your way, they bring the flowers that bloom in May.
- The World is very old...but in Spring it groweth young again.
- Page idea - Use tiny flower stickers to spell out the word 'spring'.
April Fool
- Anyone Can Be Somebody's Fool
(song by Nanci Griffith)
- Foolish Heart
(song by Jesse Winchester)
- Foolish You
(song by Kate and Anna McGarrigle)
- Now and Then There's a Fool Such as I
(song by Steve Goodman)
- Who Am I Foolin'
(song by Cheryl Wheeler)
Child's Song in Spring
O bluebird and Robin,
O Catbird and Wren,
I want you to rent
Our bird houses again.
I'm lonely all winter
When you've gone away.
Your song is as welcome
As flowers in May.
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from Song of Solomon
For lo, the winter is past,
the rain is over and gone;
the flowers appear on the earth;
the time of the singing of birds is come,
and the voice of the turtledove
is heard in our land.
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Spring
Spring makes the world a happy place
You see a smile on every face.
Flowers come out and birds arrive,
Oh, isn't it grand to be alive!
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Spring
The air is like a butterfly
With frail blue wings.
The happy earth looks at the sky
And sings.
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Spring
(Rea Williams
Across the quiet moonlit air
The cry of night owl's mourning
Joined by a chorus of coyote pups
Tells us spring's aborning.
The whole world stands in transfixed awe
Awaiting this magic moment
As nature bursts forth in all her beauty
Of glorious new arrayment.
Spring will break across the land
In bountiful re-creation
When every living creature feels
A surge of joyous elation.
Birds return in ecstatic flight,
Bees will seek the flower,
Dormant grass will raise its arms
To welcome the first spring shower.
Yes, spring has come to nature's world,
It's a time of new beginning
With birds atwitter and bees abuzz
And spiders their webs spinning.
Winter is over, the cold is gone,
Life is stirring anew
Instead of blowing drifting snow
There are diamonds in morning dew.
Now the owl is feeding his young,
The coyote pups are hunting,
It's a cheery hello to the meadow lark
and farewell to the bunting.
Spring Fever
I'm feeling oh-so silly,
I'm all in a muddle.
Can it be spring fever
That put my feet in this puddle?
The Call of Spring
When spring begins
Again to light
Our happy world
With colors bright,
The robins all come
Back to see
How beautiful
The earth will be,
With crocus gold,
And daffodils
Lighting meadows,
Fields, and hills;
With leaves of green
And tulips gay,
And birds arriving
Every day.
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Signs of Spring
(Mabel Niedermeyer)
Tops are whirling,
Kites are swirling
In the windy sky;
Hoops are rolling,
Children strolling;
Surely spring is nigh.
Brooks are flowing,
Grasses growing,
Birds are nesting, too;
Buds are breaking,
Flowers awak'ning;
Spring's come back to you!
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It's Spring
(Faye Glover Petersen)
Why is the sky so blue and clear?
Why is the robin's song so dear?
Why is the sun so warm and bright,
filling the earth with glorious light?
Why are the fields so green today?
Why do the clouds all float away?
Why does my heart with gladness sing?
Only because it's spring!
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The Year's at the Spring
(Robert Browning)
The year's at the spring
And the day's at the morn;
Morning's at seven:
The hillside's dew-pearled;
The lark's on the wing;
The snail's on the thorn:
God's in his heaven -
All's right with the world!
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March
Never mind March, we know
You're not really mad
Or angry or bad.
You're only blowing the winter away
To get the world ready
For April and May.
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March
March is an in-between month,
When wintry winds are high.
But milder days remind us all,
Spring's coming by and by.
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The Day Before April
(Mary Carolyn Davies)
The day before April
Alone and alone,
I walked in the woods
And I sat on a stone.
I sat on a broad stone
And sang to the birds.
The tune was God's making
But I made the words.
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April
(Sara Teasdale)
The roofs are shining from the rain,
The sparrows twitter as they fly,
And with a windy April grace
The little clouds go by.
Yet the back yards are bare and brown
With only one unchanging tree-
I could not be so sure of Spring
Save that it sings in me.
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April
April is a rainbow month,
Of sudden springtime showers.
Bright with golden daffodils
and lots of pretty flowers.
April Fool's Day
(Poor Robin's Almanac, 1790)
The first of April, some do say,
Is set apart for All Fools' Day.
But why the people call it so,
Nor I, nor they themselves do know.
But on this day are people sent
On purpose for pure merriment.
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April Fool!
This spring...
The birds won't sing,
The flowers won't bud,
There'll be no rain or mud,
Grass won't turn green,
Toads won't bee seen,
Ice won't melt on stream or pool -
APRIL FOOL!
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First Day of April
(Vivian Gouled)
On the first day of April
if someone should say,
"I'll give you a monster,
a basket of hay,
a ride in a rocket,
and ten games to play,"
just laugh and remember...
It's April Fool'S Day!
The Coming of May
(Leland B. Jacobs)
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May opened up her basket,
and I looked in to see
A sky of blue,
The great sun too,
Both smiling out at me.
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May opened up her basket,
And out the flowers fell.
Their fragrance spilled
Until it filled
All nature with its spell.
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May Day
There are many different theories about how May Day got started. In Celtic tradition, the night of April 30 was thought of as the darkest of the year and a time when witches spread evil throughout the land. People pounded on kettles, slammed doors, rang church bells and made all the noise they could to scare off the witches. They lit bonfires and kept vigil until dawn on May first.
Another version of the May Day tradition is that it was a day to celebrate the coming of Summer. People gathered flowers and put them by their doors and windows to keep out troublesome fairies. They cut down a tree and put up a Maypole in the center of their village. Ribbons were attached to the tree and woven together by dancers. In more modern times people fill May Baskets with flowers and secretly leave them on the doorsteps of friends and loved ones.
Some people associate May Day with the pagan festival of Beltaine. Others say it originated with the celebration of the Roman goddess Flora and spread throughout the Roman Empire. In both of those cases it was about human fertility and the renewal of nature.
May Day's Here
(Kristine Wagoner)
May Day's here, May Day's here,
Sun shines bright, sun shines bright.
Birds and butterflies are in flight,
Blooming flowers - such a sight!
Everything feels just right.
May Day's here!
Maypole
Come all ye lads and lassies
Join in the festive scene
Come dance around the maypole
That will stand upon the green.