[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.
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[Childcare] Have Fun in March! A Collection of Craft Ideas for 3-Year-Olds (1–10)
Make and play! Fun little butterfliesNEW!
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 artNEW!
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!NEW!
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!
Nature’s play of colors! Tie-dyeing with grasses and flowersNEW!
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.
Cute and fun to play with! Flapping butterflyNEW!
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!