Spring Crafts for Kids
Spring crafts for kids help students to notice details in their environment, increase their vocabulary and to take part in healthy outdoor activities. Spring offers milder weather and opportunities for children to experience fresh air and Spring breezes. Bring different flowers into the classroom throughout the spring season and teach students their names and plant parts, count petals and use them for comparison activities.
Rabbit Envelope Craft
This is a fun craft and does not require many materials. Use a regular sized envelope, green Easter basket stuffing, and a few chocolate eggs.
Follow the directions under the image.
ABC Rabbit - If you prefer, stuff the rabbit with index cards instead and have the children draw picture of objects that begin with the letter "R" for rabbit.
March poems to get kids ready for windy crafts...
March Wind
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March by Jay LeeMarch is busy
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Food color Spring flowers (image at top of page)
This food coloring Spring craft for kids is not only fun but can be integrated with a unit on Air.
Materials:
- Mix lots of food coloring with water (store each color in baby food jars with lids)
- Eye droppers
- Absorbant paper
- Straws (label so kids don't pick up the wrong one)
- Optional: - size small disposible gloves (kids fingers get colored!)
- Paper towels for quick clean up
- Newspaper to protect tables
- Art aprons
Procedure:
- Children drop food coloring/water mixture on their bottom of their paper with an eyedropper (just a few at a time)
- Children blow the food coloring mixture up and to the top of their paper
- Repeat until the page is covered in flowers
- Turn paper updside down so the biggest drops of food coloring are at the top to represent the flowers
Spring crafts for kids - March winds mixing colors art fun
Materials:
- Yellow and blue liquid paint (or any combination of 2 primary colors)
- Straws (label so kids don't pick up the wrong one)
- Cartridge paper
- Art aprons
Procedure:
- Put a tablespoon of each color paint on each child's paper
- Children blow the paint with their straws and mix the paint with the ends of their straws
- When finished, children fold their picture in half, press it gently and reopen it
- Talk about the new color they made
Spring crafts for kids - Flower Stencil craft
Snowdrops - Use the SPRING FLOWER TRACER to make stencils for your students. Provide thick green and white liquid paint and show them how to dab the paint on the stencil and gently lift it off to reveal a snowdrop below.
All Spring theme pages:
Kids Spring crafts - Chicks hatching & Curious George
Spring science & art book - integrate science and art
Spring Crafts for kids - Straw blowing flowers, color mixing and snowdrop stencils
Spring tulips - Three finger tulip art
In Bulletin Board section:
Spring bulletin board - Easy Spring flowers
Spring counting activity here - make renewing the bulletin board a whole class activity.
