Kid Crafts to Celebrate Spring: Add ideas daily :)

[LaLa]

it's that time again! Let's share ideas on what we can do with our children to celebrate the change of seasons. Try to add something weekly or even daily if you can!

Today we will:
Start a plant/new growth theme
We will start by watering our plants together (3 year olds love to water anything! :LOL)
Then we will possibly start a new plant with seed or a cutting or just start a new stem in water to watch it grow.

Then we'll draw flowers and read The Root Children, or similar stories about spring and little bugs and flowers as they awake for a new season.

this afternoon we can make Grandma a Spring Shower card with cut out pictures of flowers from catalogs and bean can glue them. If your kids are older, they could make paper or tissue flowers!

Oh, and we are being "flower fairys" today, as we do most days! LOL bean loves it, so we craft simple costumes and make her into a fairy with homemade wings from scarves and crowns or elf ears made from construction paper and tape on a headband. Very simple, but fun

We made a flower fairy wand today by wrapping green felt around the handle of a wooden spoon, tieing it with ribbon. Then we took pink tuelle and bunched it around the top of the spoon, using more ribbon to tie that on. Simple, and pretty... a flower wand.

So, today will be a pretty simple day of spring crafts. What can you and your kids do and share today to celebrate spring?

[beaner&tiegs]

one idea that I've just read about that I'd like to try soon is to break an egg shell in half, and use the bigger half.....fill with dirt, plant grass seeds in it and draw a face on the eggshell to make a kind of funny person!!! Also, closer to Easter you could plant grass with your child (it's very quick growing) and then use that to line their Easter basket as opposed to the crinkly fake stuff!

[LaLa]

great idea to grow the grass in the basket!



Today we are going out to play, so I'm not sure what crafts we'll do when we get back, but here is a spring craft for anyone who is looking for something to do today!
:LOL

Fairy WindChime

This page is full of fairy related crafts and activities, but you could easily replace the fairy theme with something else if you wanted to.

The windchime looks simple and cute (and fun to make!)

[octobersweethearts]

Here are some directions on how to grow Wheat Grass to line Easter baskets:

Materials:
Soil
Wheat berries (available at health food stores)
Pot to grow the grass
Easter basket
Plastic wrap

Directions:

1. Fill basket with soil about 1/2 to 1 inch deep
2. Sprinkle wheat berries over soil and lightly cover with soil mixture.
3. Water until moist.
4. Keep in a well lit place and water daily.

The grass grows quickly - usually 2 inches in 2 weeks

When you are ready to move it to your Easter basket, line the basket with plastic wrap. Remove grass from pot and cut to fit the basket.

This looks so cute! Wheat grass is nice and fluffy and it sticks straight up.

[Mom4tot]

Thanks for the great ideas ladies!

Just remember that the natural grass baskets are a little heavier than regular baskets...we learned the hard way!

Another cute idea with fresh grass is to grow it in the bottem of a planter, the large shallow dish. Put dirt on the bottem, grow the grass in maybe 2/3's of the dish. Then you can add a fairy house, or pretty rocks...bunnys, it is a nice centerpiece or addition to a nature table.

[LaLa]

i'm in love

[fraya]

Just a post of praise to y'all.

I am so low on creativity right now, I especially appreciate your generosity in sharing yours. I am so impressed at your energy and creativity. Yowsa. That's what I need!

[boycrazy]

I also love your ideas
This is obvious but when we are walking or driving we look for signs of spring, geese coming back buds or things poeple are doing...

[LaLa]

Well, it was snowing here yesterday...hard to get into spring crafting when it's snowing!
:LOL

But today is nicer, so I'm trying to think of a new craft for today...

I'd like to start making flowers from different fabrics and textures with bean that we can fill a basket with.

We can make one a day out of felt, wools, papers, old pieces of misc fabrics and yarns.
It sounds like fun to me

What are you all doing for crafts with the kids this week?

[beaner&tiegs]

my dd has just finished up a great art class, actually, and they did a couple of great crafts, for any season really! First, they drew/painted/collaged what they saw out the window (or wanted to see) and then put a construction paper "frame" of a window around it.....kind of a neat way to visualize the changes you're seeing out the window. And then this week they did "stained glass" with different coloured pieces of cellophane paper glued onto transparency (they actually had a transparency folder, where they could glue one side of the inside, then close it so it's not sticky anymore, and then glued construction paper strips along the outside to make a window frame)

[Izzybee]

When I worked with kids we always used to take ziplock bags, fill with some potting soil, throw in a few pop corn kernels, add a little water and tape them to the window. They sprout within a few days.

Cut up an egg carton (cut out individual egg holders), have the kids paint them different colours, put a pipe cleaner through the center - to make a tulip, put the tulips into some kind of a flower holder or pot LOL (it's been a while)

[Mom4tot]

We found a torn playsilk that we used to make small fairies to hang off of the chandelier in the dr. Cut small circles or squares out of anything you have, put a little wool. some kind of stuffing, in the center and tie to make a small head. Hang with a little thread or fishing line and tie it on, you can stitch on the head if you want, and hang. Viola!

[natashaccat]

Here's a rainyday one for preschoolers/toddlers: cut some petal, center, stem, and leaf shapes out of a variety of fabrics and let you toddler mix and match/arange them on a felt board.