23 Fun Spring Crafts for Kids
Keeping your kids busy sometimes seems like a never-ending task, especially when they’ve been trapped indoors for months and have started to experience spring fever.
An arsenal of fun spring crafts for kids can save you from the traumatic experience of energetic, bored children. So grab your craft kits, fuel up your kids, and get ready to welcome spring with these simple handmade projects for children.
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Supplies Needed for Spring Crafts
Here are some craft materials you’ll need to make these amazing spring crafts for kids. This list isn’t all-inclusive, but it’ll be a great start for lots of fun projects!
- kid-safe scissors
- glue sticks or school glue
- construction paper
- toilet paper tubes
- paint and paintbrushes
- pipe cleaners
- felt
- tissue paper
1. Coffee Filter Butterfly
Butterflies are one of the most beloved creatures with their delicate wings and vibrant colors; they symbolize beauty and SPRING. Why not celebrate these majestic insects by creating this fun and easy butterfly craft?
2. Paper Roll Bird Feeder
This toilet paper roll bird feeder craft will be the talk of the house for little ones of all ages! Simply assemble your bird feeder, let your child hang it outside, and watch as the birds come to enjoy. This fun and easy craft is perfect for a quiet afternoon at home. Pair it with a book all about birds, and you’ve got a perfect learning activity!
Also, make sure to check out these bird feeder crafts!
3. Tissue Paper Flower Bouquet
Most of us have tissue paper on hand regularly, often in numerous colors. Pick your favorite color—or stack multiple sheets together—and start folding. These instructions are easy enough for kids to do on their own after a few test tries, making them a great surprise for loved ones.
By Crafty Hacks
4. Prepare and Place a Paper Suncatcher
Creating a paper suncatcher can be a fun, hands-on craft to do with your kids. This simple project allows for practicing fine motor skills like scissors and doesn’t need many materials. The fresh flowers for the middle portion can add an extra dose of adventure, maybe in the form of a nature scavenger hunt.
5. Inspire Imagination with Spring Finger Puppets
Finger puppets can be a fun activity to keep younger kids occupied while helping them stretch their imaginations. These adorable spring finger puppets can create hours of fun, creative play. For this project, you’ll need typical craft equipment like a hot glue gun, a black pen, and scissors, plus:
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6. Fish Bowl Craft with Puppet
If your kids love all things aquatic, they can have fantastic fun with this paper fishbowl and fish puppet craft. It has a substantial supply list and multiple steps, so it’s a great time-filling project. There’s a video you can watch beforehand.
7. Combine Crafty with Kindness on a Flower
It’s never too early to teach our children to be kind to one another and to find ways to make each other smile. This adorable kindness flower is easy to make and can be great for your children to share with their closest friends.
8. Engage Your Child’s Fine Motor Skills with Spring Lacing Cards
Lacing cards—also known as threading or sewing cards—can be fun spring or summer activities to help your children improve their motor skills. Kids aged 3 to 9 are sure to enjoy weaving a string through the paper to create a daisy, bird, ladybug, or butterfly. For this project, you’ll need the printed cards, a hole puncher, and a piece of string.
9. Life Cycle of a Butterfly Craft
Do you want to teach your child about the life cycle of a butterfly? Now, you can do this hands-on project! Grab a few supplies to create your very own butterfly life cycle spinner at home. Then head out into the wild, caterpillar kit in hand, and see what you can catch!
When you’re finished with this craft, check out these awesome butterfly crafts!
10. Teach Your Child the Art of Origami with Blossom Cards
Origami is the art of paper folding, and it can be an interesting hobby for your kid to take up. This spring craft is a great intro-to-origami project that incorporates folding paper and painting. Your kids are sure to have as much fun making these greeting cards as they are to give them away.
By Fluxing Well
11. Make Edible Spring Marshmallow Animals
Edible crafts are fun to make and even more fun to eat. With this easy kid’s spring craft, your children can get creative and make different animals using squishy marshmallows, candies, and edible markers. Frosting can work for glue if your candies don’t stay in the marshmallows on their own.
12. Build Beautiful Bird’s Nest Cookies
It’s always smart to have a few ideas for delicious treats that don’t take a lot of work. Snacks that only take three ingredients and no baking are perfect. These cute treats give you the illusion of a bird’s nest with eggs. And they taste superb. All you need is peanut butter, chocolate, and puffed rice cereal for the nest and Cadbury mini eggs to go inside.
13. Construction Paper Spring Animal Projects
These chubby spring animals can be a great project for your littles to practice cutting, gluing, and spatial recognition skills. Let your kids choose from sheep, a chick, a bunny, or a frog. What’s frog-tastic about this craft is you don’t need special craft supplies. Just glue, scissors, a writing tool, and construction paper.
14. Evolve a Beautiful Butterfly from Coffee Filters
Adorable and easy to create, these coffee filter butterflies are sure to be a fun craft for all ages. Gather colorful pipe cleaner for the antenna, markers or paint, and coffee filters for the butterflies. This project can be a great craft for teaching painting, motor skills, and colors.
When you’re done, give these fun beaded butterflies a try!
15. Make It Special with a Handprint Flower Craft
Along with spring comes holidays like Mother’s Day and Father’s Day. There’s no better gift for parents and families to get on the holidays than a custom present made by their loved one. This simple flower craft combines your child’s handprint and a small photo for a sweet keepsake.
16. Embrace Spring with an Adorable Lamb Craft
This cute lamb craft can help herald in the emergence of spring, and it’s fantastic for Easter projects. These cute spring lambs don’t need a lot of craft materials—you’ll likely have everything already on hand. Round up white cardboard, black paper, googly eyes, popsicle sticks, shredded tissue paper, glue, and scissors, and you’re ready to craft.
When you finish this fun craft stick spring craft, try these additional popsicle stick crafts!
17. Create a Butterfly Craft from Clothespins
Butterflies are an enchanting part of springtime, and they can make fun seasonal crafts to do with your kids or let them do alone as a fun surprise. You’ll need a collection of wooden clothespins, craft paint and brushes, colored pipe cleaners, snack-sized ziplock bags, and colorful foam beads.
18. Create Colorful Egg Carton Flower Crowns
A flower crown can be a fun spring craft your kids can enjoy wearing year-round. This craft is easy for your kids, or you can do some and let your children assemble and personalize. You’ll need typical craft supplies like paints, a glue gun, sharps like scissors and a knife, a paper egg carton, and mini pom-pom balls.
19. Make Tulip Flowers with Forks and Paint
To make this cute painted fork tulip, all you need is paint, paper, and a fork. Plus, this neat tulip template. Cardstock provides the most structured form for your background, but regular copy paper also works. This craft is most impressive as you can be hands-off and let your kids do everything on their own.
By Little Ladoo
20. Decorate Flower Pots with Fingerprints
This easy, creative craft can make a great memorial keepsake to hold onto for years to come. And your kids are going to have a fingertastic time decorating these flower pots with their hands. If you want to teach your kids about the circle of life, they can decorate and then plant seeds in the pots.
21. Let Your Kids Explore Candied Flowers
Candying flowers can be an easy craft and a neat way to experience nature. Take your kids on a nature walk or go buy some edible flowers—small flowers like herbs, pansies, and violets work best. You’ll also need some edible paint—sugar and egg whites—a drying rack and brush.
22. Build a Bee from Your Kid’s Handprint
Nothing says spring as much as flowers and bees. This neat handprint craft can keep your kids busy with a hands-on activity. And it doesn’t need many supplies.
Grab the template below, some construction paper, scissors, glue, and markers. You can cut out the pieces for small children or let your kids practice their cutting and placing skills.
23. Design These Adorbs Popsicle Dragonfly Crafts
Kids of all ages will enjoy making these dragonflies, and you’ll enjoy the final results. For this spring project, all you need are popsicle sticks, googly eyes, pipe cleaners, beads, and glue. You can use washi tape to create patterns on your sticks instead of having your kids paint the designs.
Occupy Your Kids All Spring with These Fun Crafts
Springtime is a season of new growth, sunshine, and nature. While it’s the perfect time to get your kids outdoors, having crafts to do inside is excellent for when the weather is a fright. All ages will enjoy getting creative with these twenty fun spring crafts for kids.
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