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[Childcare] Recommended for 3-year-olds! Craft activity ideas

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Graduated from Kunitachi College of Music, Faculty of Music (now: Department of Music Culture and Education, Early Childhood Music Education major). In elementary school, my homeroom teacher was Jun Kusaba, a game researcher. After graduating from university, I worked for 10 years as a kindergarten teacher and for 7 years as an after-school childcare instructor, then took a post as a music teacher at an international school in Singapore. In addition to music education, I also engaged in activities that shared Japanese culture, traditional games, and recreational play, working with many children. Afterwards, through freelance writing, planning, and editing work at Shogakukan, I met many delightful adults and experienced the joy of communicating and conveying ideas. Leveraging the perspective cultivated in educational settings and my experience as an editor, I aim to deliver practical information—focusing on fields related to music and children—that values both input and output. Hobbies include instruments, singing, handcrafts, toys, drawing, traditional play, the outdoors, books, DIY, and crafts. Special skill: spinning-top tricks.
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Around the age of three, children develop a sense of self, their imaginative world expands, their vocabulary increases, and their fine motor skills improve—there are so many signs of growth.

We hope they continue to grow significantly as they receive plenty of stimulation in their daily lives.

In this article, we’ll introduce craft activity ideas recommended for three-year-olds.

We’ve gathered fun ideas that will spark the curiosity of three-year-olds: perfect for wall displays, toys they can make and play with, projects that use unique techniques, and activities that can be used for pretend play!

There are also ideas ideal for practicing with scissors and glue, so choose activities that match the children’s developmental stage and give them a try!

[Childcare] Recommended for 3-year-olds! Craft play ideas (11–20)

Let’s decorate with cardboard! Making dandelions that feel like spring

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Here’s a spring craft idea where you pick real dandelions and arrange them in a cardboard vase.

Cut the cardboard to a size that’s easy for children to hold, and draw a vase on the lower half.

Punch several holes in the upper half.

Take this piece of cardboard on a walk, pick the dandelions blooming along the roadside, and insert the stems into the holes.

Once you’ve filled all the holes with dandelions, secure them from the back so they don’t slip out.

Find lots of dandelions and fill your vase with spring!

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Bubble wrap beehive making

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Bees can be scary, but kids are fascinated by beehives! So let’s make a beehive using bubble wrap, which is often used as cushioning material.

First, paint the bumpy side of the bubble wrap with paint.

Yellow and orange are recommended.

Once the paint is applied all over, stamp it onto white construction paper to transfer the pattern.

After the paint dries, cut the paper into multiple hexagons and paste them onto black construction paper to form a beehive.

Finally, stick on a bee made from construction paper—and it’s complete!

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Make it with hanshi paper! How to make colorful butterflies

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Here’s an idea for making butterflies using calligraphy paper, paint, and pipe cleaners.

Prepare two sheets of calligraphy paper and paint each with your favorite colors.

Using several spring colors will make it nice and colorful.

Once the paint is dry, cut the paper into circles.

These will become the butterfly wings, so cut them to whatever size you like.

Lightly accordion-fold the center of each circular sheet, then place the two together and tie them with a pipe cleaner.

Leave the ends of the pipe cleaner long, and curl the tips to create the antennae.

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Ladybug origami for spring wall displays too!

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Ladybug origami for spring wall displays too!

Seeing a ladybug makes you feel that spring has arrived, doesn’t it? So let’s try making a ladybug out of origami.

First, fold the origami paper into a triangle, then fold both side corners up to meet the top corner.

Leave the bottom single layer as is, fold the top corner downward, and then tuck the tip slightly to the back.

This will be the ladybug’s face.

Take the top corner you left as a single layer, match the shape, and fold it to the back.

Fold the remaining three corners into small triangles to round out the shape of the origami.

Slightly fold the edges on both sides of the top corner to the back, and add black round stickers for the body’s spots.

Draw the face, and you’re done!

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Nature’s play of colors! Tie-dyeing with grasses and flowers

Play with nature’s colors: Fold-dyeing with grasses and flowers

Nature’s play of colors! Tie-dyeing with grasses and flowers

Spring is the season when grasses and flowers sprout.

Let’s enjoy orizome paper dyeing.

Pick your favorite flowers and grasses into a bag, add water, and knead to make colored water.

Be careful not to add too much water.

Once the color has come out well, use a tea strainer to transfer only the colored water from the bag into a container.

Next, accordion-fold washi paper, then fold it into triangles, flipping front and back as you go from the edge.

Dip it into the colored water to dye it.

Imagine letting the colored water soak into the three corners of the triangle.

It’s exciting to see what patterns will appear.

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Drawing is fun! A mobile of little birds

This is an easy paper-dyeing technique.

Draw patterns on aluminum foil with water-based pens, then mist it with water and place a lace paper doily on top.

Once it’s thoroughly dry, cut the lace paper in half and accordion-fold it.

Next, cut a circle from construction paper and fold it in half.

Attach the lace paper wings and a face, and you’re done! The blurred colors are beautiful, creating a soft, gentle butterfly.

If you thread it and make a mobile, it sways cutely and is lovely as a decoration—highly recommended!

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[Childcare] Recommended for 3-year-olds! Craft play ideas (21–30)

Fun with tissue paper! Crinkle-crinkle play

This is a dynamic, fun activity using colorful tissue paper.

Just crumpling or rolling the tissue paper lets you enjoy its soft texture.

If you spray it with water, the colors bleed onto your hands so you can play with color as if it were paint! Press your colored hands onto drawing paper to make lovely patterns.

The accidental colors and shapes are fascinating, and kids will be completely absorbed.

It’s a perfect spring activity full of excitement, letting children freely express themselves while enjoying the sensations and changes in color.

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