Spring crafts are always fun to do with your little one. They can be messy, but so much fun! Have a look at the list below of 10 Spring Crafts you and your little one can do together
Veggie Hand Painting
What you'll need:
- Paper
- Orange and Purple Paint
- Paint Brush
- Scissors
- Green Card
- Googly Eyes
- Black Pen
How To:
- Paint your little one's hand orange and purple for the carrot and the beetroot, and print these onto some paper.
- Paint the pointy part of the beetroot
- Cut green and leafy shapes for the beetroot and carrot
- Paint on the beetroot leaves purple lines, this could be with a paint brush or the edge of a piece of paper
- Add some googly eyes and a small smile
And you're done!
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Egg Painting
This activity can take around 45 mins (If your little one is really focused).
What you'll need:
- Hard-boiled Eggs or Wooden
- Egg Cartons
- Jars or Cups
- Liquid Watercolour (a gold watercolour can look really pretty with this) or Diluted Food Colouring
- Old toothbrushes
- Mini Stickers and white crayons (optional)
- Plate and Kitchen Roll, to lay eggs in while they dry
How To:
There aren’t really any instructions for this, let them have a bit of fun!
Maybe show how they can splatter the paint and use the crayon with the paint if you’ve got it.
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Stained Glass Sun Catchers
What you'll need:
- Tissue paper, cut into squares
- Suncatcher outline
- Sticky Back Plastic, or contact paper
- White or Black Card
- Scissors
- Pencil
How To:
- Download and print out the templates linked to white cardboard
- Cut out the shapes, and use the black card to outline the back of the printed paper
- Place the outline onto the sticky-back plastic, and make sure the black outline is facing down!
- Let your little one decorate with tissue paper!
- Add the other outline on top of your shape and seal with the other layer of sticky back plastic.
- Cut around the frame to neaten up your little one's craft
You're all Done!
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Cotton Ball Rainy Cloud
What you'll need:
- Cotton Balls
- PVA Glue
- White card
- Scissors
- Google eyes
- Blue paint
- String
How To:
- Cut out a cloud shape from your white card
- Glue the cotton balls and googly eyes onto your cloud
- Paint some card blue
- Cut out raindrops
- Attach the string to your cloud and glue on your raindrops
Enjoy your cute rainy cloud
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Worm & Water Growing Experiment
What you'll need:
- Kitchen Roll
- Washable pens
- Glue Stick
- Black sharpie
- Water
- Straw/ Pencil / Skewer
- Pippet (optional)
Click Here for instructions on how to create your very own Worm and Water experiment
Butterfly Puppet
What you'll need:
- Plastic Sheet, like the front of a clear plastic folder, strong but bendable and see-through
- Wooden Spoons
- Acrylic Paint
- Paint Brush/ Sponge/ Cotton Buds
- Pipe Cleaner (optional)
- Coloured Yarn (optional)
- Beads
- Black Marker Pen
- Scissors
- Hot Glue
How to:
- Outline butterfly wings on paper, making sure they are larger than the wooden spoon.
- Trace the butterfly template onto the plastic sheet and cut out the wings.
- Now it's time to decorate! Use paints to decorate the wings with symmetrical patterns
- Decorate the wooden spoons while the wings are drying with the yarn, paints, pens or tape.
- Give your spoon a cute face with the black pen
- Make the antennae with an 18cm piece of pipe cleaner. Fold in half and add a colourful bead to each end. To secure the antenna to the butterfly, its reccomended to use hot glue, any strong glue should also work.
- Hot glue the spoon to the wings of the butterfly to finish making your beautiful flapping butterfly
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Fork Flowers
What you'll need:
- Acrylic Paint
- Wooden Forks
- Paint Brush
- Paper
How to:
- Set up paint and paper for your little one to begin creating some beautiful fork flowers.
- Help them paint some stems and leaves for the bottom of the flower with a paintbrush
- Then encourage your little one to dip the fork into the paint and print onto the paper to create a tulip shape.
- Let it dry, and you have a beautiful tulip painting.
Hatched Egg Chicks
What you'll need:
- Card
- Yellow and Orange Paper
- Paint
- Any decorations
- Scissors
- Googly Eyes
- Glue
- Brad Fastner
- Tape
How to:
- Cut out egg-shaped ovals from some card
- Let your little one paint/ decorate how they'd like.
- Once their masterpiece is dry, cut the egg in half, like a cracked egg.
- Cut out circles of the yellow paper for the body of the chick, don't forget the feather floof on top of its little head.
- Cut out a small diamond out of orange paper and fold in half for the beak.
- Add on some googly eyes.
- Attach the egg halves from the corner using a brad fastener
- Tape or glue the chick to the back of the egg
- You and your little one have now made a cute chick!
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Lolly Pop Bracelets
What you'll need:
- Large Wooden Craft Sticks
- Sturdy Glass Jar
- Hot Water
- Decorations for Bracelet, e.g. Washi Tape, Glitter, Embroidery Thread, Rhinestones, Buttons, Paint, Stickers
How to:
- Soak lolly pop sticks in hot water for at least 30 minutes, soak more sticks than you need, as some may snap.
- Once the sticks are pliable, carefully bend the lollipop stick. If they aren't bending, place them in hot water again for another 15 minutes.
- Bend the stick to fit inside the rim of a sturdy cup or jar.
- Let the sticks dry overnight.
- Now decorate your lolly pop bracelets however you'd like.
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3D Paper Flowers
What you'll need:
- Thin Strips of Coloured Paper
- Glue Sticks
- Yellow Paper
How to:
- Cut out the strips of coloured paper and circles for the centre of the flower.
- Lay down a strip of paper and add a dot of glue to the middle
- Lay a second strip across from the previous horizontally, then add another dot of glue to the middle.
- Repeat the previous two steps until you have added four strips of paper.
- Bend each strip of paper in the middle and secure with glue.
- Once all petals have been glued to the centre of the flower, glue the yellow centre onto the flower.
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Hopefully, you have found some inspiration on what crafts you and your little one can have a go at in these warmer months.