Lovely childcare

[Childcare] Have Fun in March! Craft Ideas for 3-Year-Olds

10 years as a kindergarten teacher / elementary school teacher / junior and senior high school teacher / childminderkepiko
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.

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)

Blow painting with straws! Drawing flower art

Blow painting with straws! Spring craft flower drawings

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!

Raise the rankinglower

Report a problem

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.

Raise the rankinglower

Report a problem

Cute and fun to play with! Flapping butterfly

[Childcare Craft] Spring craft ♪ Cute, playable flapping butterfly | Cute flapping butterfly

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!

Raise the rankinglower

Report a problem

[Childcare] Have Fun in March! Craft Ideas for 3-Year-Olds (11–20)

Stamp play is fun! Cute flowers

Here’s a craft idea that uses a stamp made from bubble wrap to depict cherry blossoms.

Lightly sketch the outline of a cherry blossom on pale pink construction paper, and have the children stamp inside the outline.

It’s fine if they go over the lines—unneeded parts will be cut off later! Encourage them to enjoy expressing themselves as they recall cherry blossoms.

The cutting step can be left to the children as good scissor practice.

If you display the cherry blossoms everyone made on the wall, it’ll feel like you can have a cherry-blossom viewing party right in the room!

Raise the rankinglower

Report a problem

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

@anko_insta
We did an easy spring activity with cardboard! Kids really love dandelions, right? ✨ There were so many in bloom, and they looked super happy! It’s also great for little finger play.work #dandelion #GoldenWeek Spring Play
Seventeen – YOASOBI

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!

Raise the rankinglower

Report a problem

Make it with hanshi paper! How to make colorful butterflies

@job_it
A must-see for childcare workers! Try making it! [Spring Craft]#Nursery school Nursery teacher / Childcare worker #NurseryTeacherThings Aspiring childcare worker Translation Childcare student Childcare student #Childcare Crafting
♫ Original song – Nursery Sommelier – Your ally in job change 👶 Nursery Sommelier

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.

Raise the rankinglower

Report a problem

Giant dandelion made from construction paper

[Spring Craft] Super Big! Giant Dandelion Made from Construction Paper

Giant dandelion made from construction paper

Let’s make a big, exciting dandelion using A4-size construction paper! Prepare three colors of paper for the petals, stem, and leaves.

First, fold the petal paper in half lengthwise.

Leaving about 2 cm at the top, make fine vertical cuts from the fold.

After cutting, roll it up tightly from one end and secure it, then gently spread open the cut fringes from the outside.

For the stem, roll the construction paper from a corner to form a rod.

For the leaves, cut them out from the paper with the characteristic jagged shape in mind.

Combine the three parts, and you’re done!

Raise the rankinglower

Report a problem