10 Spring crafts for toddlers and preschoolers to make! From flowers to rainbows to butterflies, these spring crafts will help you and your kids swing into spring! They’re sweet, they’re simple, and they’re absolutely charming!
My daycare toddlers and preschoolers have made many great spring crafts over the years – flowers, birds butterflies and such – and I thought it would be nice to put our most popular projects all in one place for you.
These crafts are all great for helping to develop fine motor abilities, and they’re lovely for home, daycare, preschool or homeschool.
Be sure to pin or bookmark this collection so you have it handy when the long winter days are coming to an end.
Spring, glorious spring! Is there a more wonderful season? Everything’s coming up fresh and new in the garden. The yard is a live with vibrant colour after a long, cold winter, and the spring-time temperatures are rising daily. I LOVE spring because it means more outdoor time, butterflies, birds, bugs, flowers and spring showers.
10 Easy Spring Crafts for Kids:
Cork-Stamped Button Flowers – one of my favourite spring crafts for kids! These adorable stamped spring flowers are super-easy to make with old corks and colourful buttons!
Coffee Filter Spring or Easter Wreath – kids will love the process we used to make these coffee filter wreaths. So easy and colourful – they’re perfect to hang on the door for Easter or to welcome Spring!
Rainsticks – Round up your recyclables and make some colourful rainsticks! Preschoolers will love using recycled materials to recreate the sound of falling rain!
Paper Plate Garden – Kids can create a garden scene on a paper plate using dollar store flowers and odds and ends from the craft cupboard.
Woodland Fairy Tiara – Fairy-loving little girls will love this easy spring craft. Pair up a grocery sack with some artificial flowers and make a paper bag tiara.
Tissue Paper Rainbows – check out the colourful tissue paper rainbows we made for CBC Parents! You’ll love the fun and easy technique we used to draw our rainbows!
Tissue Paper Spring Wreath – another easy way to make a Spring wreath! Toddlers will love crumpling the tissue paper for this pretty spring project!
Paper Plate Birds – this is one of my all-time favourite spring crafts for kids. Make these adorable “rocking birds” with a few simple craft supplies.
Rainbow Wind Chimes – take the kids for a nature walk, and collect some sticks to make a vibrant rainbow wind chimes! This is a great spring craft for kids to make for Mother’s Day or Father’s Day!
Styrofoam Spring Art – here’s a spring craft idea that’s easy enough for even the youngest toddlers! Kids can create colourful styrofoam spring art with meat trays and foam shapes!
Paper Towel Butterflies – 3 different ways to make paper towel butterflies. Kids of all ages will love the process of colouring paper towels with coloured water! When they’re finished they can turn their finished art into butterflies!
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Jackie is a mom, wife, home daycare provider, and the creative spirit behind Happy Hooligans. She specializes in kids’ crafts and activities, easy recipes, and parenting. She began blogging in 2011, and today, Happy Hooligans inspires more than 2 million parents, caregivers and Early Years Professionals all over the globe.
Ashley
Thank you so much for creating this site!! I love your ideas because they aren’t expensive and are so “real”– no picture perfect kids crafts (because that never happens!). Because your projects are so easy, kid friendly, and inexpensive I am SO much more likely to do them. Thank you!!!
Alisa
Trying to find your paper mâché bowl directions
happyhooligans
Here you go, Alisa. https://happyhooligans.ca/paper-mache-bowls-for-mothers-day/ If you ever can’t find something using the search bar on my site, just google a few key words. I just googled “happy hooligans paper mache”, and it popped up. 🙂
Heather
I just love your ideas!
Sylvia Albert
Nice ideas for a little girl. Would you have any crafts for a boy?
happyhooligans
I’m not exactly sure exactly what you’re looking for, Sylvia. All of our crafts are done by both boys and girls here, but you can find all of my posts on my pinterest board, where you’ll have more of a visual overview of everything we’ve done. It should be easy to spot things that might appeal to you. 🙂 Here’s the link: http://www.pinterest.com/happyhooligans/happy-hooligans-posts/