The snow is melting and the air is starting to get warmer, it means that springtime is coming. Its the perfect time to create some beautiful spring crafts for kids! Check out all these wonderful arts and crafts projects for toddlers, preschoolers, kindergarteners and older kids! From bug hotels, to bicycle crafts to flowers and more!
Spring Crafts for Kids
Spring is one of my favourite times of the year to get crafty. There are so many different creatures and natural items to get inspiration from. There are beautiful spring flowers, bugs, birds and animals that your child can recreate! Not only that there is the ever changing weather that your little once turn into art. My favourite are rainbows and rain clouds!
This collection of spring crafts has tons of fun and unique and easy ideas to make with kids of all ages. There are ideas perfect for even your youngest artist, toddlers and preschoolers. There are ideas that your kindergartener will also love to make and there are projects perfect for grade school kids as well.
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Easy Spring Arts & Crafts for Kids
Looking for a specific spring theme? Check out these ideas:
- Bee Crafts
- Butterfly Crafts
- Flower Crafts
- Garden Crafts
- Lady Bug Crafts
- Caterpillar Crafts
- Spring Paper Plate Crafts
Dandelion Snail Threading Board
Dandelion Snail Threading Board is great outdoor fine motor activity for preschoolers and kindergarteners! This is perfect for spring or summer days when your lawn or park are covered in dandelions!
Dandelion Turtle Craft
Are you looking for a fun and creative craft to do with your kids? Look no further than the dandelion turtle!
Cupcake Liner Flower Craft
Cupcake Liner Flower Craft is a beautiful and creative craft for kids of all ages. My kids absolutely loved this one and we spend an entire morning being crafty making flowers!
Coffee Filter Flowers
Get ready to add some color and cheer to your home with an exciting coffee filter flower craft for kids!
Dandelion Fish Craft
If you’re looking for a fun and unique craft project to do with your kids, why not try making a dandelion fish?
Easy Foil Printed Tulip Craft for Spring
Foil Printed Tulip Craft for Spring is an easy but very fun craft for spring! This exciting sensory craft is great for your toddlers and preschoolers. Create textured and unique tulips using my free tulip template and aluminum foil!
Milk Experiment Flowers: Easy STEAM Craft for Spring
Milk experiment flowers crafts are a fun and educational way to teach kids about science and art. Perfect for Mother’s Day or Spring!
Cardboard Tube Flowers: Easy Spring Craft for Kids
Crafts are a great way to keep kids entertained this spring, and cardboard tube flowers are an excellent choice!
Pinwheel Craft for Kids
We felt the wind of creativity with our Pinwheel Craft for Kids, turning paper, pins, and straws into spinning wonders that catch every breeze. This craft is not just a fun way to engage with the principles of wind and motion, but it also adds a burst of color and energy to any garden or windowsill, perfect for those sunny spring days that beckon us outside.
Bug Hotel Craft
A bug hotel is part garden craft and part winter home for insects and bugs! Create one today with your kids with this fun and easy bug hotel craft for kids and help the bugs in your garden stay warm and safe this winter so that they cab flourish in the spring!
Scrunched Tissue Paper Bee Craft
Buzzzzzzzz.. Spring is in the air! Create this adorable scrunched paper bee craft to celebrate with your toddler or preschooler!
Windsock Bee Craft
An easy cardboard tube bee windsock craft is the perfect spring craft for your toddler or preschooler!
Make A Bee Hotel with Kids
By creating a bee house craft, you can help provide a safe and comfortable home for these important pollinators in your own backyard.
Torn Paper Bee Craft
We are buzzing about bees! In springtime, bees are a lot of fun for kids to learn about. Incorporate this easy torn paper bee craft for a great fine motor craft!
Wrist Bird Craft for Kids
You can’t go wrong creating a colorful wrist bird craft with your kids with spring or anytime of the year! This is a great idea to set up during a spring, animal or bird unit!
Jumping Frog Craft
What better way to create memories with your kids than this super cute jumping frog craft for kids!
Coffee Filter Frog Craft
Our crafting adventure took a leap into the world of amphibians with the Coffee Filter Frog Craft, transforming ordinary coffee filters into colorful, hopping frogs. This imaginative project is a wonderful way to explore color blending and absorption, all while creating a playful frog that’s as fun to make as it is to play with.
Make Your Own Nature Paint Brushes for Kids
Making your own DIY nature paint brushes is a fun and unique way to create art while also getting outside and exploring the world around you.
How to Make Seed Bombs for Kids
Seed bombs are a fun and eco-friendly way to teach children about the importance of caring for the environment and promoting biodiversity.
Glowing Firefly Craft
Our adventure into recycling and crafting merged beautifully with the Glowing Firefly Craft, using old water bottles to create enchanting fireflies that light up the night. This project is a brilliant way to teach the importance of recycling, showing how something as simple as a discarded bottle can be transformed into a magical, glowing creature that sparks wonder and imagination in the dark.
Paper Plate Caterpillar
Our crafting journey continued as we transformed simple paper plates into a colorful Paper Plate Caterpillar, stringing together segments with vibrant paints and cheerful decorations. This craft not only captures the essence of transformation and growth but also encourages kids to practice sequencing and color recognition, all while crafting a friendly caterpillar that’s sure to spark smiles and stories.
Sock Caterpillar Craft for Kids
This easy sock caterpillar craft for kids is a fun and simple craft for preschoolers and kids of all ages to make in spring or when learning about caterpillars.
Eggshell Caterpillar Garden: STEAM Craft for Kids
We dove into the world of STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math) with our Eggshell Caterpillar Garden, a craft that turns kitchen scraps into a lesson on growth and recycling. This engaging activity invites kids to explore the life cycle of plants in a hands-on way, using eggshells as tiny pots for sprouting seeds, all while crafting adorable caterpillar guardians for their burgeoning garden.
3D Butterfly Craft
This 3D butterfly craft is easy for kids to create and looks wonderful displayed at school or home. Perfect for the spring or summer.
Sock Newt Craft
The Sock Newt Craft slithered its way into our crafting session, transforming an ordinary sock into an extraordinary newt with just a few simple supplies. This project is a whimsical way to repurpose old socks, encouraging kids to think creatively about materials and inspiring them to see the potential for transformation in everyday objects.
Bubble Wrap Sheep Craft
This adorable lamb craft is fun and easy to make. All you need is bubble wrap and paint and an eager toddler or preschooler! A great spring craft!
Rocking Ladybug Craft for Spring
Rocking Ladybug Craft is an adorable paper plate craft for toddlers and preschooler to do this Spring Day. Create these beautiful ladybug that moves using dot makers!
Cardboard Bicycle Craft for Kids
Cardboard bicycle craft is a fun and easy craft for preschoolers and kindergartners. Create your very own bicycle craft you can take for a spin!
Cotton Ball Flower Painting for Spring
Cotton Ball Flower Painting is a great art activity for Spring! Create and decorate cotton ball flowers with your toddlers and preschoolers!
Tissue Paper Rainbow Suncatcher Craft
Rainbows are one of my favourite things to make! And with this stunning tissue paper rainbow suncatcher, they will be your favourite too! Super easy to make and great for spring!
Pipe Cleaner Rainbow Craft for Kids
Rainbows, rainbow and more rainbow! Check out this fun pipe cleaner rainbow craft for an amazing fine motor craft and activity in one!
Easy Nature Butterfly Sticky Wall Craft
Create a beautiful butterfly craft using items found in nature! This nature butterfly sticky wall craft is a fun and easy summer and spring craft for kids!
Super Easy Paper Plate Cloud Rainbow Craft
Paper Plate Rainbow Craft is an adorable rainbow craft for toddlers and preschoolers! A fun colour matching and fine motor craft for Spring! This craft is also makes a great craft to make for St. Patrick’s Day.
Easy Paper Ladybug Craft
This easy Paper Ladybug Craft for Kids is an adorable craft for kids to make this spring. This ladybug is super easy to make for any toddler or preschooler and would make a great addition to any bug sponge preschool or toddler unit!
Puffy Paint Rainbow Craft
Puffy Paint Rainbow Craft is a fun and easy spring time rainbow craft for toddlers and preschoolers! Make a fluffy looking cloud with puffy paint!
Sensory Rice Rainbow Craft
Sensory Rice Rainbow Craft is a fun sensory rice craft to create for spring. This easy and colourful craft is great for your toddlers and preschoolers. Create a rainbow using coloured rice!!
Sponge Painted Cherry Blossom Craft
Sponge Painted Cherry craft is an easy and fun painting activity for toddlers and preschoolers. Create a beautiful cherry blossom tree to celebrate the start of Spring!
Easy Giant Cardboard Bird Craft
This Giant Cardboard Bird Craft is a fun and easy art activity for kids! Create a giant colourful bird out of cardboard!
Washi Tape & Watercolours Butterfly Craft
Washi Tape Butterfly craft is a fun and creative activity for toddlers and preschoolers. It uses two of my favourite crafting supplies – washi tape and watercolours!
Torn Paper Rain Boot Craft
Torn paper rain boot craft is great Spring toddler and preschooler activity. This simple craft is a great way to keep your little one busy indoors and strengthen their fine motor muscles!
Paper Plate Umbrella Craft
Paper plate umbrella craft is simple toddler craft for spring! It’s a great way to entertain toddlers or preschoolers indoors on a rainy day!
Rainbow Sun Catcher Craft
This rainbow sun catcher craft is a wonder contact paper craft for kids of all ages! Create textured rainbow art that is beautiful for St. Patrick’s Day or Spring!
Potato Masher Caterpillar Craft
Spring is the best time to make a caterpillar craft! Whether for an insect unit, an activity to accompany the Very Hungry Caterpillar or just for fun at home or school this fun and easy potato masher craft to is a great way to celebrate spring.
Potato Masher Ladybug Craft
Along with the coming of spring come the insects. Little creepy crawlers that lay appear the first few warm days! Here is a fun craft to make cute ladybugs using a my favorite kitchen utensil to paint with – the potato masher.
Potato Masher Bee Craft
As we slowly creep towards warmer and warmer temperatures the insects of spring and summer are starting to appear. We get are fair share in our backyard so to celebrate their arrival we decided to do this fun craft and make cute bumblebees using a my favorite kitchen utensil to paint with – potato masher.
Potato Masher Chick Craft
In this fun spring craft you only need a few crafts supplies like paint and construction paper and a potato masher.
Potato Masher Sheep Craft
Just a few more weeks until spring but we are in full Spring craft mode in our house while we make these adorable potato masher sheep craft!
Easy Glue Resist Rainbow Painting
This glue resist rainbow painting art activity is super fun and easy for toddlers and preschoolers! It makes a great spring activity and a wonderful way to learn and practice the colours of the rainbow! Plus the resulting art looks amazing!
Adorable Tissue Paper Chick Craft
Tissue Paper Chick Craft is an adorable craft for toddlers and preschoolers. This fun and easy craft is a wonderful activity to do for Spring or Easter!
Easy Coffee Filter Butterfly Craft for Kids
This beautiful coffee filter butterfly craft is the perfect indoor craft activity for a sponge day! Create unique butterfly wings with markers and water using a coffee household item – coffee filters! This is a great craft toddlers and preschoolers!
Bubble Print Butterfly Craft
Bubble Print Butterfly Craft is an easy craft for toddlers and preschoolers using a super fun painting method – bubbles! This makes a great outdoor activity in the summer!
Gems and Watercolour Flower Painting
Create a beautiful multi-media watercolour painting project with your little one using gems and watercolours. And the best part is that it’s something they can do one their own!!
Looking for More Spring Crafts & Activities? Check out these useful resources:
- Butterfly Crafts
- Very Hungry Caterpillar Crafts & Activities
- Bee Crafts
- Ladybug Crafts
- Spring Sensory Bins
- Paper Plate Crafts for Spring
- Spring Activities For Kids
Play2Learn Toddler & Preschool Programs for Curious Toddlers
There is no limit to your toddler’s energy and curiosity. That energy and curiosity although a joy can be challenging at times. Their interest in just about everything around them is what makes them great learners. One and two year olds can soak up so much just from their senses!
But as a teacher or parent that thirst for learning can be exhausting. That is why I created this toddler and preschooler program. To help you get the most out of this time with your curious toddler without having to come up with creative ways to play and interact with them.
Play2Learn for Toddlers includes 20 Units for toddlers. Each 2-week toddler unit has 20 super easy to set up and engaging activities for toddlers 18 months to 3 years.
Play2Learn Preschool which includes 20 Units for preschoolers. Each 2-week preschoolers unit has 20 unique and easy to set up and engaging activities for preschoolers 3 years to 5 years. That’s over 800 learning activities for your toddler and preschooler at your fingertips! So many ideas you and your child will never be bored again!
These toddler and preschool lesson plans and activities will definitely keep you and your toddler and preschooler busy playing and learning!
Click here for more information: Play2Learn
Book: Exciting Sensory Bins for Curious Kids
Did you know I wrote a book of sensory bins? Click here for more information Exciting Sensory Bin for Curious Kids. Or grab your copy at Amazon.
Boring afternoons are made exciting with awesome animal-based bins, like Salty Shark Bay or Yarn Farm. Pretend play bins like Birthday Cake Sensory Play or Bubble Tea Party encourage creativity and imagination. And your kids will have so much fun they won’t even know they’re getting smarter with STEAM (science, technology, engineering, art and math) activities like Sink or Float Soup, Magnetic Letter Hunt or Ice Cream Scoop and Count.
Designed for toddlers 18 months and up.
Book: Super STEAM Activity Book for Kids
Learning all about science, technology, engineering, art, and math sets kids up for scholastic success―and it can be so much fun! Watch kids enjoy building STEAM skills as they color friendly fish, help water find its way to tree roots, solve math problems with mazes, and more.
Find out more and grab your copy here.
Designed for preschoolers 3 years old and up.
Book: Big Book of Riddles for Kids
Riddle me this: What’s an exciting way to practice critical thinking while having a blast? The Big Riddle Book for Kids, of course! From hilarious puns to tough brain teasers, kids can build problem-solving skills with hundreds of riddles tha. t show them how to think outside the box.
- 350 riddles for kids—Have hours of fun with riddles, puns and jokes, and math and logic puzzles that’ll get their wheels turning!
- Level up their skills—Riddles get trickier as kids progress through the book, challenging them as they get better at solving puzzles!
- Double-check their work—Kids can check their answers in the back of the book with a handy answer key.
Help children expand their minds while having fun with this puzzle book for kids!
Designed for kids ages 6 years old and up.
TV Show: Curious Crafting
I’m so excited to share my crafting TV show Curious Crafting which launched in July 2022 on TVOkids and TVOkids YouTube! Season 2 aired in August 2023! My show was also nominated in 2023 for Best Live Action Preschool Series by the Youth Media Alliance Awards of Excellence.
Curious Crafting Season 1 is also now airing in Australia on ABC! Watch it here!
Set in the ultimate crafting space, Curious Crafting is a short form pre-school age series about the joy of making crafts. I lead a rotating cast of adorable little preschoolers (including my own) making magic out of common household objects.
In each episode we transform recycled items into magical crafts like a milk carton school bus, paper bag puppet or cotton pad turtle. The crafters learn and laugh their way through each activity while demonstrating what their young imaginations can create.
Curious Crafting shares the adventure and joy of making art with takeaway lessons for creating crafts at home.
This show designed for toddlers and preschoolers 2.5 years old and up.
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