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[Childcare] Have Fun in March! Craft Ideas for 3-Year-Olds
Why not enjoy making some seasonal crafts together with three-year-olds? With spring-themed motifs like butterflies, flowers, and ladybugs, the bright colors alone make the process exciting. As they move their fingers and say “I’ll choose this one!” while selecting colors and shapes on their own, children greatly expand the range of their self-expression. Here, we’ve gathered craft ideas perfect for three-year-olds in March childcare settings. Please try incorporating them into your daily activities. Note: Since we treat the children’s creations as art pieces, we use the term “production” (制作) in the text.
[Childcare] Have Fun in March! A Collection of Craft Ideas for 3-Year-Olds (1–10)
Candy fits inside too! Cute tulip origami
Let’s use two sheets of origami paper to make a tulip flower and leaves.
First, we’ll make the flower: fold the origami into a triangle.
Once folded, starting from the center of the base, fold the left and right corners upward at an angle to form the petals.
Turn the paper over, then fold the left, right, and bottom corners into triangles, and the flower is done! Next, for the leaf piece, also start by folding it into a triangle.
Fold the top corner down to meet the base.
Flip the paper top-to-bottom, then fold up each half of the base along the center line to create two leaves.
Turn the paper over, fold up the bottom corner, and it’s complete.
Combine the two parts to make a cute tulip.
You can place sweets inside from the top of the flower.
Connect the loops to make a ring caterpillar
Here’s a craft idea for making a caterpillar using classic loop chains, often used as birthday decorations.
Cut construction paper into long strips, form a loop and glue it; then thread the next strip through that loop, form another loop, and glue it the same way.
Repeat to create the caterpillar’s body.
Draw a face on a circle cut from construction paper, and attach antennae made by wrapping pipe cleaners around a pom-pom.
Once you fix the face to the body with double-sided tape, it’s complete! If you connect a stick with a tied string, you might be able to take it for a little walk around the room.
Let’s play with decalcomania!
Decalcomania, which means transfer, is a technique of expression often used in early childhood education.
Basically, you put paint on one side of a sheet of drawing paper that has a crease down the center, fold it in half, and transfer the paint to the other side to create the image.
The key is to thin the paint with plenty of water! That way, the colors blend and you can enjoy the accidental patterns that emerge.
This introduces two ideas: one is to make a butterfly with decalcomania and then cut it out with scissors, and the other is to use drawing paper pre-cut into a cherry blossom shape to add patterns.
Make and play! Fun little butterflies
By attaching a straw as a handle, this is a craft idea that lets you make a butterfly you can flap and play with.
First, we’ll make the butterfly: draw a butterfly on construction paper.
An adult can draw the outline, and let the children enjoy drawing the patterns.
Once the drawing is finished, cut away the excess with scissors and fold the butterfly in half.
Then fold it again 1.5 cm from the crease, open the butterfly back up, and turn it over.
Slip a straw into the section with the creases and secure it, and you’re done!
Blow painting with straws! Drawing flower art
Blow painting with a straw is a craft that you can enjoy while seeing how the paint spreads.
It’s perfect for the spring season! Let’s try painting flowers with blow painting.
First, use crayons to draw the stems and leaves on drawing paper.
Next, dilute your favorite paint with water and drop a few drops onto the flower area.
Use a straw to blow and spread the paint to create the flowers.
Mixing colors can look beautiful, too.
Once the paint dries, it’s also recommended to draw insects or other creatures in the blank spaces to complete a spring-like scene!
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!
Cute and fun to play with! Flapping butterfly
You can wear it on your finger and play with it! Let me introduce the Flappy Butterfly.
Prepare a sheet of construction paper cut into a rectangle, origami paper or stickers for the wing patterns, and antenna parts.
First, fold the rectangular construction paper in half to make a mountain fold crease.
Then, leaving about 1 cm of space, add valley fold creases on both sides.
After folding along the creases, draw half of a butterfly shape and cut it out with scissors.
Also make two evenly spaced slits along the folded section.
If you reverse the creases at both ends of the fold that’s now divided into three sections by the slits, you’ll create openings for your fingers.
Attach the wing patterns and the antennae, and you’re done!