Get spring off to a fun and creative start with these fun and easy spring crafts for kids. With 30 crafts to choose from, you'll have an entire month of crafts planned out for you, making everything from butterflies to rainbows to flowers. These crafts are colourful, cheerful, and easy enough to do with your toddlers and preschoolers while still being fun for older kids as well.
You'll find so many ideas here using basic crafting supplies like coloured paper, paper towels, sponges, coffee filters, and clothespins. Time to gather your crafting supplies and dig in to start some of these fun spring crafts with your kids.
Spring Crafts for Kids from Messy Little Monster
We just love spring here at Messy Little Monster. It's a great time to get crafty, especially on those rainy days when you don't get much outdoor time. Here are some of our favourite spring crafts for kids that we've done over the years.
Magic Paper Towel Art
Your kids will have so much fun making surprise pictures with this Magic Paper Towel Art activity. You'll enjoy watching their delighted little faces as the magic messages appear when the paper towel is placed in water.
Coffee Filter Flower Craft
Brighten up your tabletops with a bouquet of Coffee Filter Flowers. Kids can make these flowers as a Mother's Day gift, too. They're just gorgeous and will last for years rather than a week.
Paper Plate Bee
This craft is the bee's knees! If you're studying bugs or just like to see the buzzing little insects flying around in spring, this rocking Paper Plate Bee will be a big hit with the kids.
Cardboard Chick Craft
Chicks are typically associated with Easter, but really, they're perfect for the entire season of spring. You'll love our Cardboard Chick Craft with a printable template to make them so super easy for the kids.
Daffodil Spring Flower Craft
These spin art Daffodil Spring Flowers are perfect for spring or Mother's Day. What could be sweeter than your child's picture in the centre of a flower?
Tropical Paper Flower Craft
Use this template to make a gorgeous Tropical Paper Flower Craft. It's a fantastic craft for spring or summer and is oh-so-colourful! You may want to do this on a canvas or frame it; it's so beautiful you'll definitely want to enjoy it for a while.
Mix and Match Flower Template
Another excellent choice for Mother's Day, this Mix and Match Flower Craft is so easy to personalise. Change out the colours, the pictures, etc. according to what Mom likes.
Clothespin Dragonfly Craft
Make beautiful bugs with clothespins and pipe cleaners. These Clothespin Dragonflies are easy enough for toddlers and preschoolers to put together.
Rainbow Footprint Butterfly
Babies and toddlers grow so fast. Remember just how small they were this spring with this adorable Rainbow Footprint Butterfly. You'll love seeing it in the scrapbook years from now.
Cupcake Liner Flowers
This Cupcake Liner Flower Craft is perfect for spring crafting with young kids. Use cupcake liners in coordinating colours and patterns to make beautiful flowers to display. They'd also make gorgeous cards to send to friends and family.
Easy Spring Crafts for Kids
If you're looking for even more spring projects to make with the kids, take a look at these fantastic spring crafts from some of our favourite bloggers around the web.
Frog Craft for Kids
Send a fun frog card to someone you care about! This cute Frog Craft is the perfect way to say hello to friends and family this spring.
Parts of a Flower Craft
Learn about the Parts of a Flower in a fun and engaging way. This craft by Natural Beach Living is a simple and colourful way for kids to diagram the roots, stem, leaf, and flower.
Felt Flower Crown
Little kids will need some help cutting and assembling the pieces for this Felt Flower Crown by Party with Unicorns, but they'll love wearing it all spring long.
Tissue Paper Flower
Tissue paper crafts are lots of fun, and if you're scrunching up the tissue paper, as you do in this Tissue Paper Flower Craft by Teach Me Mommy, it's a great opportunity to recycle used tissue paper.
Paper Plate Suncatchers
Gather some flowers, leaves, seeds, and feathers from the garden to make these Paper Plate Suncatchers by Simplify Create Inspire. This is a fantastic way to keep kids engaged during your nature walks.
You can also make paper plate suncatchers using just flower petals to make patterns.
Paper Bag Butterflies
Make these Paper Bag Butterflies from Simple Everyday Mom to use for storytelling along with your favourite butterfly-themed books. This craft is an excellent addition to a butterfly unit study as well.
Paper Plate Birds Nest
When the birds are singing in early spring, make this fun Paper Plate Birds Nest by Natural Beach Living to learn about bird habitats. Make a nest full of bluebirds or cardinals or any birds you like!
Coffee Filter Rainbow
When you're feeling down or just want to add a little colour and cheer to a gloomy day, making rainbows is a great way to lift your spirits. This Coffee Filter Rainbow Craft by Darcy and Brian is an excellent example. Make several, and tape a couple to your outward-facing windows to make your neighbours smile.
Coffee Filter Butterfly
Speaking of coffee filters, these Coffee Filter Butterflies by The Simple Parent are just lovely. All you need are coffee filters, markers, and water to create the beautiful tie-dye effect on the wings. Pinch the filter with a clothespin, add pipe cleaner antennae, and you're all set.
If making acoffee filter butterfly craftwith young children it can be fun to squirt liquid watercolours onto coffee filters instead of using markers.
Q-Tip Painted Butterflies
If you're looking for a spring craft for toddlers, you're in luck. These Q-Tip Painted Butterflies by Teaching 2 and 3-Year-Olds is easy peasy. Clip them onto a string to make a butterfly banner or add magnets to the back to pin them to your fridge.
Paper Plate Hot Air Balloon Craft
You only need a few supplies to make these whimsical Paper Plate Hot Air Balloons by Toot's Mom is Tired. The woven basket portion of the craft is terrific for fine motor practice.
Toilet Roll Stamp Flowers
Toilet rolls are terrific for stamping because you can bend or cut them into any shape you want. These Toilet Roll Stamp Flowers from Taming Little Monsters are very appropriate for spring!
Toilet Paper Roll Butterflies
Here's another easy project to use some of those toilet rolls that you've been saving. The Toilet Roll Butterfliesfrom The Best Ideas for Kids are totally adorable and so colourful. Use buttons, sequins, stickers, and more to create unique wing designs.
Popsicle Stick Rainbow
If you have a stash of craft sticks, make this Popsicle Stick Rainbow from MomBrite. This is easy enough for toddlers and preschoolers to do, but even older kids will enjoy it. If you don't have cotton pads on hand to make the clouds, cotton balls or white tissue paper will work nicely, too.
Flower Garden Playdough
Use this Flower Garden Fine Motor Playdough by Best Toys 4 Toddlers to build hand/eye coordination, dexterity, and more. Kids can make flowers from tissue paper, yarn, or pipe cleaners. If you have real flowers to press into the playdough, even better!
Nature Cuffs
Toilet paper rolls and flowers combine to make these beautiful Nature Cuffs for kids to wear this spring. Girls and boys alike will love this craft by Danya Banya.
Baby Blue Bird Craft
This Baby Blue Bird Craft from Fun Handprint Art Blog is a terrific spring craft for kids. Place the handprint birds on the tree and nest template. It couldn't be easier. If you'd rather do cardinals instead, use red cardstock instead of blue!
Paper Plate Flower Craft
Use paper plates and paper straws to make a garden of Paper Plate Flowers, like these from Red Ted Art. Using paper plates allows for plenty of space for little hands to paint. Little ones may opt for solid colours, while older children may enjoy creating more intricate designs.
Cardboard Carrot
Pair this Cardboard Carrot craft from The Art Kit with the book Too Many Carrots for an afternoon of reading and crafting fun. Top the painted cardboard carrots with green paper shreds or green tissue paper if you don't have shredded paper.
Butterfly Printing
Don't you love finding interesting ways to incorporate household items into your crafts? A clean sponge is an excellent example—use them to make these Butterfly Prints from The Craft Train. It's a super simple craft for toddlers, and you can make several lovely designs for them to stamp. If you have large sheets of craft paper, make some butterfly-printed wrapping paper for spring birthdays.
We hope you enjoyed this list of spring crafts for kids. Don't forget to pin it!
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