Spring Crafts for Kids

Garden Crafts

Spring is the time when everything outside comes alive. Why not bring a little life inside with a garden craft?

Planting something in a decorated flower pot is an easy craft for kids of all ages. Start with a simple terra cotta pot from your local craft or garden supply store. Paint the whole pot one color (pastels are great for spring) and allow to dry.

Let the kids decorate the pot with paint pens. Apply sealant if you want the paint job to last a long time.

Plant something colorful and easy to take care of, like impatiens. These tough little flowers are available everywhere in the spring and summer. They like a slightly shady spot, so they are find to grow inside or outside under an overhang.

Another fun garden-inspired craft is building a terrarium. You might have done this in school: Just take an empty two-liter soda bottle, take off the label, cut off the top, fill about a third of the bottle with potting soil, fill with small plants such as cacti or even grass seeds, water until moist, cover the top with plastic wrap and secure with a rubber band.

Or create a fake terrarium out of a baby food bottle. Use the lid of the jar as a base, placing some play dough or a small circle of floral foam in the bottom. Stick some silk flowers into the base and screw the jar into the lid.

Crafts for the Birds

We often think of helping our feathered friends in the winter (as with the famous peanut butter pinecone) but it’s important to remember them year round.

Older kids can make basic birdfeeders or birdhouses out of wood. Younger kids can make the pinecone spread with peanut butter and covered in birdseed type feeders, or do something a little different like stringing round cereal on a string or piece of yarn or doing the same peanut butter and seed trick on a bagel instead of a pine cone. Hang these in the trees and watch them disappear!

Coffee Filter Critters

A fun craft that announces spring involves making butterflies (or other creatures) from coffee filters and other supplies.

Start with a black pipe cleaner to act as the middle of the body or the antennae. You can also use a clothespin for the body and glue on googly eyes. Paint the coffee filter with watercolor paints and fold into pleats that look like wings.

Slide the filter into the clothespin, or glue to the pipe cleaner. This could be a butterfly or some other insect, depending on how it is painted and how the wings are folded.

Egg Crafts

The biggest holiday of the spring is Easter, and of course there are many different crafts that can be done with eggs. You can buy plastic eggs or papier-mâché eggs at any craft store and then decorate them with just about anything you want:

• You could decoupage the eggs by covering the egg with glue, pasting on strips of tissue paper and gluing over the top.
• Put glue all over the egg and decorate with beads and buttons. You can even make stripes by gluing one section at a time and allowing the first to dry before going on.
• Decorate with stickers.
• Use markers or paint pens to draw on the eggs.

Make a collection of differently decorated eggs and display them in a pretty Easter basket with raffia instead of that scary green Easter grass.

Spring Bunnies

Take a small white paper plate and fold it in half. Use colored construction paper to cut out bunny ears (white for the outside and pink for the inside), big round cheeks and a little triangle nose. Glue ears to the back of the plate, and cheeks and nose to the front. Add google eyes, or just draw on eyes with a marker. Add a smile and you’ve got a cute bunny face.

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