Spring flowers, green leaves, baby animals, and googly eyes? Spring is full of inspiration for fun crafts! And yes, adding googly eyes makes everything cuter… well almost everything.
This list of spring crafts is generally geared towards younger children – toddlers and young school age children. The great part about these spring crafts is they use supplies you likely have at home already – assuming your home is like mine and has a constant supply of paint, glue, tape, googly eyes, and yarn available.
Quick Links to the Spring Crafts
Leaf Trees
Supplies:
- Leaves, flowers, twigs collected from outside
- Paper
- Glue
- Crayons or markers
The first step for this craft is to get outside! Collect a variety of leaves, small flowers, petals, grass, bark, anything you can find.
Once you’re back inside, glue what you find to paper using the big leaves as the main part of the tree. Decorate with small flowers and twigs you found.
Add a tree trunk using bits of bark or draw it on! This is an activity that lets kids get as creative as they want to be. I stuck to the basics and my kids had a much looser interpretation of what a tree is, but they all got hung up in the end!
This craft was inspired by Crafts on Sea
Spring Chicks with Forks!
Supplies:
- Yellow paint
- Forks
- Paper
- Markers
- Googly eyes
- Orange construction paper
- Scissors
These little chicks are my favorite and, yes, I realize I might be obsessed with googly eyes.
Dip the fork into yellow paint and then lay it on your paper in a circular pattern so the fork tines make feathers.
Let the paint dry for a bit and then use markers to add little feet. Cut out a small triangle from the orange construction paper and glue on the beak. And lastly, the best part, add googly eyes.
You can also use the fork painting technique to make some spring flowers!
This craft was inspired by Mas and Pas
Egg Shell Stamping
Supplies:
- Plastic Eggs
- Paint
- Paper
- Colored Pencils or Crayons
We have a lot of plastic Easter eggs in our house and there always seem to be some that don’t match anything or don’t fit tightly together. This craft is a good way to use those misfit eggs.
Dip the egg shell half into paint and stamp on the paper.
Try using only black paint for the stamping. Then after it dries, you can color in the open spaces to make a mosaic. This was interesting because the paint created a raised edge to color between.
String Bunnies
Supplies:
- Paper (cardstock recommended)
- Yarn
- Scissors
- Tape
- Cotton Ball
- Glue
Start out by printing or tracing the silhouette of a bunny on two sheets of cardstock paper. Cardstock is recommended because it will stand up better when finished. Cut out the bunny from one of the papers, keeping the border intact.
Cut yarn and place it over the bunny silhouette on the whole paper, using tape to secure it. Try using different colors of yarn to make a pattern or ombre effect. Make sure it’s taped securely and won’t sag when you pick up the paper.
After the whole silhouette is covered with yarn. Tape or glue the cardstock with the cutout shape on top. Then glue a cotton ball on to be the tail.
This craft was inspired by Katie’s Crochet Goodies
Q-Tip Spring Flowers
Supplies:
- Paint
- Paper
- Q-tips
- Rubber band
- Markers
Flowers are a perfect subject for spring painting crafts! These flowers are simple for small children to make too.
Gather 5-10 Q-tips and tie them together with a rubber band. Dip the ends in paint and stamp on the paper. Then use markers to add stems and leaves.
I only had primary colors available at the time we did this project so the final product isn’t exactly screaming spring – but hey, it’s still a flower!
Grow a Rainbow
Supplies:
- Markers in rainbow colors (washable)
- Paper towel
- Two cups
- Water
There are many interesting activities out there using markers, paper towels, and water. Unfortunately many of them are time consuming to color. This one is very quick to color and quick to get to the “magic” part.
First, fold a paper towel sheet in half and cut to about 6-8” long.
Then, on each end use the washable markers to color a 2” block of the rainbow colors in order. Why washable markers? Because when you put the paper towel in water, you want the ink to bleed.
After both ends are colored, fill two cups with water and place the colored ends in the water. Be sure to leave a small part of the colored paper towel out of the water so the ink bleeds up the paper towel and not out into the water.
The ink will travel up the paper towel to complete the arc and make a rainbow.
