27 Spring Crafts for Preschoolers

27 Cute Spring Crafts for Kids

My favourite thing about Spring is decorating my classroom with colourful and vibrant spring decorations. The best thing is they are all cute crafts done by my children! These Spring Crafts for preschoolers are super easy to make and budget-friendly too. Children love animals insects flowers or anything to do with nature. Spring is the best opportunity to learn and explore nature. I have always loved teaching spring themes and making spring crafts. Here I have gathered a collection of my favourite spring craft ideas.

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Pointillism

By Fluxing Well

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The best thing about this craft is minimal prep time. There is no pre-cutting. This is also a good fine-motor skill activity. This is a great craft project if you have a large group of children. You will get a great outcome with minimal supervision. The supplies are pretty much things you should already have at hand.

Supplies:

  • White drawing paper cut into 6-inch squares. (or light blue for very young children, to eliminate having to paint the sky)
  • Sharpened pencils for sketching sharpened pencils with brand new erasers for making the dots of paint
  • Tempera paint. Red, blue, green, brown and white (or you could have students mix yellow and blue to make different shades of green)
  • Brown marker (if you don’t have brown paint)
  • Paper plates to use as a palette
  • Paper towels for blotting

Cardboard tube Binoculars

By Crafts by Amanda

Binoculars made from cardboard tubes and felt laying in the grass

These cardboard tube binoculars are a great rainy day craft for kids. They can use them to go bird watching, as a camp craft, or as a nature craft!

Supplies:

  • 2 cardboard bathroom tissue tubes
  • 1 sheet camouflage felt
  • scissors
  • white craft glue
  • craft foam to match your felt
  • 6 rubber bands
  • 40″ piece of twine or yarn
  • pen

Threading is a Montessori Practical Life activity. They help refine fine motor skills and prepares the child for writing.

Beaded Wind Chime

By Champagne and Sugarplums

Beaded Wind Chime Kids Craft Idea for the Long Weekend

Supplies:

  • Beads
  • Twine or string
  • Scissors
  • Branch 

Fruit Cereal Rainbow Craft

By Hunny I’m Home

If you're searching for a fun St. Patricks Day craft for kids, this adorable rainbow craft for kids is perfect! You'll love this cute cereal rainbow craft because its an adorable edible craft for kids. It's one of the best rainbow crafts for kids because they can eat this cute craft St Patricks Day kids craft. #rainbow #craftsforkids #StPatricksDay

Supplies:

  • A bowl of fruit cereal
  • A few full-sized marshmallows
  • String, A plastic yarn needle. 

Spring Flowers Sun-catcher

By Imaginative Homeschool

Supplies:

  • Wax paper
  • Flower petals or leaves (just raid your garden),
  • A pencil,
  • A glue stick, 
  • A hole punch, A piece of yarn or twine. 

Cress Heads

By Red Ted Art

Cress Head How to. Easy Preschool Activity for Spring. Preschool STEAM activity. Cress heads how to. Sprout heads. #spring #preschool #steam

Supplies:

  • a packet of cress
  • some eggshells
  • cotton wool
  • some water

The following is a great way to practice gluing and pasting skills. The materials are things you might already have at hand. If you want to add the cutting skill as well you can always leave that for the child to do. In my Montessori class, I have done this same project with coloured tissue paper. I let the children tear the tissue papers into small pieces and squish them into tiny paper balls. That way it will be a two-day craft project. The first day can be a group project where they tear and make paper balls. On the second day, they can paste them.

Rainbow Paper Craft

By Kidz Craft Corner

Rainbow paper craft with teared coloured paper and, cotton balls and free raibow template

Supplies:

  •  Glue Sticks
  • Colored Paper – 1 page for each colour of the rainbow
  • Cotton Balls – 8 to 10 needed
  • Rainbow Template

Here is another adorable rainbow craft idea that I found. The best thing about this is marshmallows!. Yes, my advice is to get some extra marshmallows just incase. Because once they get glue in them you can’t eat them. If there is a marshmallow emergency(wink).

Easy Marshmallow Rainbow

By DIY Nuts

Finished rainbow craft with marshmallows

Supplies:

  • Marshmallow (white or coloured)
  • Cardboard
  • Sharpie or Pencil
  • Glue
  • Food colouring (Optional)

I love ladybug crafts. They are fun and easy to make. The best thing about ladybug crafts is they are colourful and vibrant. You can even decorate the classroom and it will brighten up the place. Here are some of my favourite ladybug crafts

Paper Plate Ladybug

By Family Focus Blog

Supplies:

  • Red and Black Paper Plates
  • Scissors
  • White Paper
  • Pencil
  • Glue or Tape

3D Flying Ladybug

By Mom Brite

Paper Ladybug Craft

Supplies:

  • Red and black craft papers
  • Craft glue
  • Pencil
  • Googly Eyes
  • Scissors
  • Free ladybug template (download form located at the end of the post)

3D Ladybug with Egg Carton

By Fun Handprint Art

Handprint Ladybug Craft for Kids

Supplies:

  • egg carton
  • red paint
  • black glitter glue or black paint
  • paintbrush
  • black pom pom
  • pipe cleaner
  • glue or glue dots
  • scissors

Butterflies! yes, my next favourite thing about spring is butterflies. The best thing about butterfly crafts is that you don’t have to stick to certain colours. The children can be creative and choose their own colours. Here are some of my favourite butterfly crafts.
I picked two coffee filter butterflies because they give the best wing effect.

Coffee filter Butterfly

By Red Ted Art

Coffee Filter Butterflies - so sweet

Supplies:

  • Coffee Filters
  • Watercolours or food colouring
  • Pipette
  • Googly eyes
  • String
  • Craft Sticks

Coffee Filter Butterfly

By Honey and Lime

Painted coffee filter butterfly spring kids craft

Supplies:

  • white coffee filters
  • watercolour paints
  • coloured pipe cleaners
  • paintbrushes

Toilet Paper Roll Butterfly

By Green Oklahoma

pink love bug made using toilet paper roll

Supplies:

  • Empty Toilet Paper Rolls
  • Construction Paper
  • Craft Eyes
  • Pipe Cleaner
  • Paint Pens or Markers
  • Hot Glue

Heart Butterfly

By Mom Brite

Heart Butterfly Craft

Supplies:

  • Free paper heart butterfly craft template
  • Coloured craft papers
  • Craft glue
  • Googly eyes
  • Black marker or Sharpie
  • Pencil
  • Scissors
  • Pink and gold markers (you may substitute with other colours)

Paper Plate Butterflies with Dot Markers

By Glitter on a Dime

Butterfly Crafts

Supplies:

  • Neon Dot Markers
  • Glue
  • Paper Plates

We can’t talk about spring without talking about bumblebees. It a great preschool theme to add to your lesson plan too. There are tons of bee crafts out there. These two are easy to prepare and budget-friendly.

paper Plate Bee Craft

By Simple Everyday Mom

Collage of paper plate bee craft images with the words, “paper plate bee craft” in the middle

Supplies:

  • Paper plates
  • Yellow paint
  • Paintbrush
  • Coloured card stock or construction paper (in black and light blue)
  • White card stock
  • Black pipe cleaners
  • Black marker
  • Glue stick
  • Scissors
  • Tape (optional)
  • Paper trimmer (optional)
  • Bee craft template (download form located at the end of this post)

Heart Bee Craft

By Mom Brite

Paper Heart Bee Craft 1

Supplies:

  • Free heart bee craft template
  • Coloured craft/construction papers
  • Craft glue or glue stick
  • Black Sharpie or marker
  • Pencil
  • Scissors

Bumblebees, butterflies ladybugs, they all love flowers. There are too many flower crafts out there. I picked some unique and easy flower crafts for you to try.

Corrugated Cardboard Flower Printing

By Emma Owl

Supplies:

  • Corrugated cardboard from your recycling box
  • Tape or sticky tape to keep the flowers rolled up.
  • Kids paint. These are great!
  • White paper or cardboard. We used A3 size – so a little bigger! Use whatever you have.

Japanese Cherry Blossom Tree Craft

By Emma Owl

Japanese cherry tree

Supplies:

  • The tree template on an A4 sized piece of paper or card 
  • Calligraphy paintbrush (optional)
  • Q-tips (earbuds)
  • Three paint colours, dark pink, light pink and white

Cherry Blossom Tissue Paper Craft

By Go Places with Kids

Cherry blossom tree craft

Supplies:

  • Tissue paper (pink and white, green and blue optional)
  • Paper towel roll
  • Scissors
  • Glue
  • A piece of cardboard

Paper Flower art for Gluing Skills

By Emma Owl

Supplies:

  1. A large piece of thick paper or cardboard for the background. We used an A3 size – so a little bigger to give us more space to work with!
  2. Coloured cardboard or paper for the vase, stems, and flowers
  3. Scissors & Glue
  4. A black marker/colour markers if you want to add designs to your vase.
  5. Easter is one of the most loved Spring celebrations. There many reasons to love Ester. Making Easter crafts is one of them. Here are few cute and easy Easter Crafts.

Handprint Chicken Craft

By Lil Tigers

diy handprint chicken art for kids

Supplies:

  • paper or canvas
  • yellow and orange finger paint
  • paintbrush if needed
  • red and black markers

Pom Pom Chick

By ConservaMom

Paper Plate Pom Pom Chick:Paper Plate Craft for Spring

Supplies:

  • 7-inch paper plate (dessert size)
  • Yellow pom pom balls (in 3 shades if available)
  • 2 wiggly eyes
  • 2 yellow chenille stems(pipe cleaners)
  • 1 orange chenille stem
  • Quick-dry tacky glue or school glue

Handprint Chick Craft

By Simple Everyday Mom

Collage of handprint chick craft images with the words, “chick handprint” in the middle

Supplies:

  • Coloured card stock (in yellow, dark yellow, orange, and pink)
  • White card stock
  • Brads
  • Pencil
  • Hole punch
  • Glue stick
  • Scissors
  • Handprint chick template

Cotton Ball Bunny

By Mom Brite

Paper Plate Bunny (2)

Supplies:

  • Free cotton ball bunny template
  • White, pink, and black printer paper or cardstock
  • Paper plate
  • Cotton balls
  • Scissors
  • White school glue or tacky glue


Easter Bunny Treat Cup

By Easy Crafts for Kids

Easter Bunny Craft For Preschoolers

Supplies:

  • Paper or Styrofoam cup
  • Construction paper (white and pink)
  • Cotton ball
  • Pom pom (red or pink)
  • Black marker
  • Scissors
  • Glue

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