Children's Crafts for Spring:
We love spring! The birds sing, the flowers bloom and we have more desire than ever to make original and fun crafts, and be able to be with paper, cardboard and/or recycled or reused materials, of course!They are ideal for your children, for preschoolers, for your children in early childhood ...
We have divided them into 3 sections:
- Flower handicrafts
- Insect crafts
- Crafts of other animals, suns, and clouds
Flower Crafts for children
The little ones in the house also like to make floral spring crafts. We will show you 6 easy flower and vegetable crafts for young children.They can make them with acrylic paint, cardboard, sticks and even with cereals and seeds that will grow to become grass!
The personalized version of the «Mr head of grass» or «potato head of grass» with his face with this handcraft for children so easy and resulting:
You will need a plastic cup, a photo of the face, soil for plants and grass seeds.
Instructions:
- Fill a plastic cup with the soil and plant the seeds in it.
- Print a picture of the child's face cut it to finish on the forehead and stick it on the glass.
- Water until your hair grows! (Ask the florist or center where you buy the seeds every time you have to water them)
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Manual to make carrots with footprints.
You will need white cardboard, green colored cardboard, orange acrylic paint, scissors and adhesive tape (cello).
Instructions:
- Paint the soles of your feet with orange paint and tell them to stand on the white cards to mark the footprint.
- While the paint dries, trim strips of green-smelling cardboard.
- Once the paint has dried, trim the prints and stick the green strips on the back of this carrot craft so original and easy to make.
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Paint dandelion made with the help of a plastic fork. Very easy and fun! This craft is ideal for children in early childhood education:
You will need white cardboard, green colored cardboard, orange acrylic paint, scissors and adhesive tape (cello).
Instructions:
- Paint the soles of your feet with orange paint and tell them to stand on the white cards to mark the footprint.
- While the paint dries, trim strips of green-smelling cardboard.
- Once the paint has dried, trim the prints and stick the green strips on the back of this carrot craft so original and easy to make.
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Paint dandelion made with the help of a plastic fork. Very easy and fun! This craft is ideal for children in early childhood education:
You will need Froot Loops, Cheerios or Estrellita's cereals, or those that you like the most; buttons, glue, green marker and white card.
Instructions:
- Glue the buttons on the cardboard and around the cereals making petals.
- With a green marker, draw the stems and leaves of your pretty flowers.
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Another very original way to make flowers with recycled materials is to use ice cream sticks. As these daisies:
You will need buttons, ice cream sticks of colors or normal painted with a marker or acrylic paint, and glue.
Instructions: first place the sticks as you see in the image. When you already know how you are going to place them, stick one on top of the other and the button on top of everything. Source.
You can also make some paper tulips like the ones you see below:
You will need a paper or cardboard red and green, scissors, glue stick.
Instructions: cut three red petals, and the stem and leaves on green paper. Glue it and ready :) Source.
Insect Crafts
Like it or not, spring is the time of insects: butterflies, dragonflies, ladybugs, centipedes, bees ... They are very important for the ecosystem!Teach your children or children students to appreciate these important little animals with these handicrafts of insects made with rolls of toilet paper (the cardboard tube of toilet paper) and/or colored cards. They are very easy to make children's crafts.
Below you will find 4 original crafts to make insects with recycled materials :
Who does not like ladybugs? Here you have a very special one:
you will need a paper plate, white cardboard, mobile eyes, red and black acrylic paint, black wool, adhesive tape, scissors, brush, glue.
Instructions:
- Cut the paper plate in half and paint it red.
- While the paint dries, cut around on the cardboard and paint it black.
- Paint round black on the plate painted red. Ideally, do it with a round sponge brush, but you can do it with a normal brush or using black stickers.
- Turn the plate over and stick the black wool that will be the legs of this ladybug craft.
- Glue eyes to the round black that will face two shorter wool to make antenna. Finally, stick your face on the plate.
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Funny butterfly reusing a roll of toilet paper:
You will need a paper cardboard tube was, cardboard of various colors, stick glue, pipe cleaners, tape, scissors, black marker, mobile eyes.
Instructions:
- Decide what color you are going to make the body and cut a piece of cardboard to cover the outline of the role of toilet paper. Stick it with bar glue.
- Fold the card with which you will make the wings in half and draw them as you see in the image. Leave 1.5cm apart as you see in the photo, which will separate the two wings. Cut out
- Glue the central part to the cardboard tube, matching the part of the tube where the cardboard is superimposed.
- Cut a round of different colors on the cards and stick them on the wings to your liking.
- Fold a pipe cleaner in half and roll each half in a pencil to give it that shape. Then stick the center part inside the roll of toilet paper with adhesive tape.
- Glue the mobile eyes and draw the eyebrows and a smile with a black marker.
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A centipede craft of the colors that you like most made with the toilet paper cardboard roll and other cardboards:
You will need two rolls of toilet paper (or one of the paper towels), colored cards, two small yellow pompoms, two moving eyes, a black marker, scissors, stapler, glue.
Instructions:
- Cut each roll of toilet paper into three equal parts.
- Cut strips of different colors on the cards. They must have the same length and width as each ring on the toilet roll you cut earlier.
- To continue with this children's craft, staple each strip around each ring. With this, you will get 6 rings of different colors.
- Put all the rings in line so that the staples are upside down. Take a long strip of card, longer than the total length of all the rings together, and pass it inside the rings.
- Staple one end of the strip to the inside of the first ring. Staple the other end inside the other rim.
- Cut 12 small strips of green and bend them like an accordion, as you see in the image. Unfold and grápalas to the sides of the hoops. These small cards will be the legs of our cardboard centipede.
- For the head of the centipede, take another strip of cardboard (in this case it is red) and engrave it to one of the rings so that it is in the first ring of the centipede body. Use the image as a reference.
- For the antennas, cut two thin strips of cardboard (in this case they are orange) and staple a pompom at the end of each one. Then staple each antenna to the back of the head of the recycled insect.
- To finish, stick your eyes and draw a smile to your bug.
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We continue with the insects and rolls of toilet paper to make way for the queen of spring, the bee!
You will need a toilet paper tube, yellow, white, black and flesh-colored cardboard; scissors, stapler, stick glue, and this printable template.
Instructions:
- Cut a piece of yellow cardboard the size of the roll of toilet paper.
- Roll it over the cardboard and grápalo as you see in the image.
- Print the template that we have linked to you in the section "you will need" and use it to cut out the shape of the wings, the head and the strips of the bee on the cardboard of the corresponding colors.
- Staple the three black strips to the body of the bee and then staple the wings as well. Paint the face of the bee and stick it to the body.
- To finish this recycled bee craft, stick the antennae behind the face.
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