27.02.2025
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4 min reading Bright spring crafts with children: 7 ideas for any age
Spring is a time of renewal, warmth, and inspiration! Together with your children, you can create bright spring crafts that will not only entertain the little ones, but also develop their imagination, fine motor skills, and creative abilities. Regardless of the child's age, there will be interesting ideas for joint creativity - from simple applications to voluminous crafts made from natural materials.
In this article, we've collected 7 of the best spring crafts that are easy to do at home or in kindergarten. Ready to get creative? Then go ahead!
Spring crafts – ideas
DRAWING WITH ROSE BUDS
A beautiful and very simple craft without glue and complicated manipulations - painting with rose buds. Just take a bud, you can already slightly wilted, paint the petals with different colors of gouache or watercolors and put the prints on paper. You will get beautiful colored roses! Then all that remains is to finish the stems and leaves with a felt-tip pen.
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FINGER PAINT DRAWING
With toddlers who are not yet confident holding a brush, you can draw beautiful spring flowers using fingerprints. To do this, you will need special finger paints or regular gouache.
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The thicker the paint, the brighter and more contrasting the flower petals will be. The grass and leaves of the flowers can be created with prints, and the stems can be added by mom.
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DRAWING WITH SILL
Who would have thought that simple salt could transform a simple watercolor drawing into something magical and original!
For a good effect you will need:
- paper
- salt
- watercolor
Process:
This unusual drawing can be done with a child of 1,5-2 years old. First, draw large flowers with a tiny brush, using watercolor. For the flowers, use paint that is heavily diluted with water so that the salt can create a beautiful pattern.
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When the picture is ready, sprinkle a little salt on each flower and leave to dry - it will eat away the paint in certain places. Shake off the salt and admire the unusual patterns on the tulips.
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MARBLE PAINTING
We previously talked about how to create beautiful marble drawings with your child using milk. But you can also create a less complex marble pattern on paper using simple watercolors.
Process:
- Ask your child to put several large spots on an A4 sheet of paper using paint in different bright colors, for example, pink, yellow, blue, purple.
- Then, dip your brush in water and spray it on the clean areas of the paper, then make large strokes across the paper. Finally, blot the paper with a paper towel.
- On another white sheet of paper, have your child draw flowers or trees with a dark marker. Cut out each flower, leaving a centimeter from the outline.
- Glue the cut flowers onto the dry marble sheet.
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PAPER MOSAIC
If your child has been asked to bring a spring craft to kindergarten, you can make a beautiful and very unusual applique with your child from cut paper, the parts of which form a mosaic. But without your help, your child will not be able to cope with this task.
You will need:
- cardboard
- paper of different colors
- scissors
- PVA glue
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Process:
- Using a simple pencil, draw on the cardboard the picture you expect to see. It is desirable that the images of the drawing be as simple as possible.
- Cut out the details of the future picture from colored paper.
- Divide each detail into squares with a pencil and cut it however your imagination takes you.
- Glue each square 1-2 mm apart, laying out the entire piece.
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You can also use small squares to cover the background of the drawing, which will make the picture look more complete and complete.
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SEASONS: 4 IN 1
If you and your child are studying the seasons, you can make this wonderful tree out of cardboard.
Watch this short video to learn how to make a 3D tree:
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