I love living in a place that gets to experience all of the seasons. Sometimes we may feel that winter fades directly into summer, and we are usually looking forward to the next season. But I appreciate the different weather that we do get to see. So to celebrate all of the beautiful seasons and the wonderful changes that happen every few months, I decided to gather some of our favorite new children’s books about seasons. We also decided to commemorate our favorite parts of each season with individual handprint paintings that can be combined to make one large piece!

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Sing a Song of Seasons: A Nature Poem for Each Day of the Year

Selected by Fiona Waters and illustrated by Frann Preston-Gannon

This poetry anthology ambitiously gathers a nature poem for every day of the year. Each poem is suited to the season and time of year that it is matched with, and the lovely illustrations pair beautifully with the lyrical texts. This is a perfect book for celebrating all of the beautiful things that happen in nature throughout the year, and a great way to introduce kids to poetry. Each poem is clearly labeled with a date, and there is a ribbon to help you keep track of where you left off.

A Song for All Seasons

Written by Margaret Wise Brown and illustrated by Charlotte Cooke

This beautiful rhyming story from the author of Goodnight Moon explores all of the beautiful natural occurrences that each season brings. The lyrical text is simple, highlighting the fun things that you can do each season. The illustrations are beautiful, using soft textures and bright colors to showcase the best parts of each season.

My Tree and Me: A Book of Seasons

Written by Jo Witek and illustrated by Christine Roussey

This entry in the Growing Hearts book series, uses colorful cutouts to illustrate a young girl’s relationship with a tall tree in her backyard. Throughout the seasons, she has lots of fun with her tree, and she grows along with it. The text shares all of the fun ways that the girl plays around her tree, and all the things about her tree that she is grateful for. This book not only celebrates the seasons, but also encourages kids to be appreciative of nature.

A Stroll Through the Seasons

Written by Kay Barnham and illustrated by Maddie Frost

This informational book explores the many changes that happen each season. The text shares how the changing seasons affect plants, animals, and weather patterns. The colorful collage style illustrations bring the seasons to life and showcase the beautiful changes of each season.

Check out the rest of this series here: Engaging Nonfiction: Nature Books for Kids

Seasons Handprint Art

To commemorate our favorite parts of every season, we decided to create this handprint artwork. We used 4 separate 8×10 inch canvases to create individual paintings for each season. All 4 paintings can then fit together to create one large piece of artwork.

Spring

For the Spring panel, I first painted my daughter’s palm yellow and her fingers orange and stamped it into the top right corner of the canvas. Next, I had her dip her fingers into green paint and push her fingers along the bottom edge to create grass. Finally, we used different colored paints on her fingertips to create flowers.

Summer

To create the Summer panel, I painted her palm and fingers yellow and stamped it into the bottom right corner of a new canvas. Next, I had her make a fist and dip it into white paint that I had tinged slightly blue. She then stamped her first shaped clouds into the white space above the sun.

Fall

On the Fall panel, I painted her entire hand brown and stamped it into the bottom left corner of a new canvas. This created the bare tree branches of Fall. Next, I had her use her fingertips to add yellow, brown, orange and red leaves to the branches. She then added other “leaves” in the white space about the tree to symbolize leaves blowing in the Fall wind.

Winter

Finally, for the Winter panel, I painted her hand a very light blue and stamped it into the top left corner of a canvas. Next, I had her use her fingertips in the same paint to add smaller snowflakes throughout the white parts of the canvas. You can also use a paintbrush and a slightly darker blue paint to connect the fingers of the hand print to make it look more like a snowflake.

Once the paint was dry on all of our canvases, I used a permanent marker to write out the season names on each of them. I love that it not only celebrates the seasons, but also commemorates the size of her little hands!

What are your favorite children’s books about seasons? Share in the comments below!

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