Spring Traditions
Spring Songs
Spring Birthdays
Spring Riddles
Spring Poems
100
Matt Stonie of California ate 255 of these marshmallow treats in five minutes at a contest in 2017.
What are Peeps?
100
This famous duo wrote April Come She Will.
Who are Simon and Garfunkel?
100
Best known for her performances as Hermione and Belle, this young UU is also a Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations. Her birthday is April 15th, just like our founder, Vera!
Who is Emma Watson?
100
This is a bow that can't be tied.
What is a rainbow?
100
The author of this poem
Who is Shel Silverstein?
200
We all know Spring is a time for playing outside again. This ballgame is played outside; the highest ranking player stands in the square labeled "1".
What is Four Square?
200
This is what little children want to do.
What is Play?
200
This American folksinger brought us hits like "If I had a hammer" and "Where have all the flowers gone." His birthday is May 3rd.
Who is Pete Seeger?
200
This is a rabbit with fleas.
What is Bugs Bunny?
200
This is the language of the following ode to Spring, written in his bed, by a poet...1700 years ago.
What is Chinese?
300
This is a piece of matzah hidden at the beginning of a Passover seder for children to find. It's name is Ancient Greek for "dessert".
What is Afikomen?
300
Though the singer in this video is Frank Sinatra, "It Might as Well Be Spring" was first part of the musical "State Fair", with lyrics and music by this famous duo.
Who are Rodgers and Hammerstein?
300
This famous Unitarian, daughter of Samuel Ward, wrote the Battle Hymn of the Republic, advocated the creation of Mothers' Day, and was a strong abolitionist. Her birthday is May 27th.
Who is Julia Ward Howe?
300
These are what you get when you plant kisses.
What are tulips?
300
This poet usually wrote all in lower-case letters.
Who is e. e. cummings?
400
Spring is a time for nature and animals. This is the word for a female gerbil.
What is a doe?
400
This is the city of love where the Count Basie Orchestra will bring us to with the song: April in _____.
What is Paris?
400
This man is credited for inventing the World Wide Web. He said of UU folk: " They meet in churches instead of wired hotels, and discuss justice, peace, conflict, and morality rather than protocols and data formats, but in other ways the peer respect is very similar to that of the Internet Engineering Task Force." His birthday is June 8th.
Who is Tim Berners Lee?
400
These go up when the rain comes down.
What are umbrellas?
400
The time of morning according to Robert Browning.
What is seven?
500
This is the Pagan Goddess, from whom Easter gets its name.
Who is Ostara?
(Alternate spellings accepted.)
500
This Danny Kaye musical movie brought us the song "Inchworm" along with its reminder to notice the beauty of nature.
What is Hans Christian Anderson?
500
This composer is deeply rooted in Hungarian and Slovak folklore. He chose Unitarianism because it is a "free and humanist" faith. His birthday is March 25th.
Who is Bartok?
or Who is Bela Bartok?
500
This is when monkeys fall from the sky.
What is Ape-ril Showers?
500
According to Shakespeare, April hath put a spirit of THIS in everything.
What is youth?