Songs and Phrases
April showers bring these
What are May flowers?
This bird is often associated with Spring in North America.
What is a robin?
March leaves like a lamb, but it comes in like this animal.
What is a lion? Fall and spring are transitional months with huge swings in temperatures. March comes in as winter (lion) and leaves as spring (lamb), but the proverb originally referred to the constellations and astrology—Leo the lion and Aries the lamb.
This primary color is the first color in the rainbow.
What is red?
This is the name for the type of dusting, washing windows, vacuuming, shaking out rugs, and opening windows as the weather gets warmer.
What is Spring cleaning?
In the children's rhyme, "Rain, Rain, Go Away," this is what the old man is doing
What is snoring?
This term describes the movement of birds as the weather shifts in temperature.
What is migration?
We sometimes describe heavy rains by saying that it’s raining these two animals.
What are cats and dogs? The expression’s origin is unknown, but some suspect it is a reference to Jonathan Swift’s satirical poem “A Description of a City Shower,” published in 1710.
This color is the result of mixing blue and yellow
What is green?
This is an appetizer at a Chinese restaurant.
What is a spring roll?
This is the Beatles song about the joy of Winter ending and the beginning of Spring?
What is Here Comes the Sun?
This the term for when an animal goes into their den, sleeps and will only come out when spring begins?
What is hibernation?
This meteorological term applies to rain, snow, sleet, and hail.
What is precipitation? The most common form of precipitation is rain.
This color is the name of a type of berry
What is blue
This phrase is used to describe someone who cannot wait to get outside in the spring, who seems to be a little "crazy" for the season.
What is Spring fever?
This song by Jo Stafford mentions two types of blossoms, one pink and one white, symbolizing the beauty of spring
What is "Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White"?
This term, starting with the letter "M," describes the process by which a tadpole transforms into a frog or a caterpillar into a butterfly.
What is metamorphosis?
When lightning strikes, it allows this gas to combine with oxygen to help plants grow.
What is nitrogen? When oxygen and nitrogen combine, it helps plants absorb nitrogen better. Nitrogen is a component of fertilizer; it’s the N in NPK, along with phosphorus (P) and potassium (K).
This color is often associated with royalty and luxury
What is purple?
A phrase that describes when you walk energetically in a way that shows you are feeling happy and confident.
What is "spring in your step?"
This artist, known for his ukulele and falsetto voice, made "Tiptoe Through the Tulips" a hit in 1968.
Who is Tiny Tim?
This is the name for a group of butterflies
What is a kaleidoscope?
One of the forefathers of meteorology, this ancient Greek wrote Meteorologica around 340 BC.
Who is Aristotle? We generally think of Aristotle as a philosopher, but he wrote the oldest comprehensive book on the subject of weather.
The Beatles sang about living in a submarine of this color
What is yellow?
This is a move that gymnasts do often.
What is a handspring?