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May, with its warm and refreshing breezes, is full of exciting events for children!
Many teachers may be thinking about creating crafts that capture the feeling of the season.
In this article, we’ll introduce recommended craft projects for May.
We’ve gathered plenty of fun ideas you’ll want to make—from event-themed crafts to insects and fruits seen in May, as well as vividly colored plants.
Feel free to adapt the activities to match children’s interests and curiosity, and enjoy making them together.
Because the pieces children create are treated as works, we use the term “seisaku” (production/work) in the text.
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[Childcare] Feel May! A collection of fun craft ideas to make (1–10)
How to make fluffy carnations
You can make lovely carnations with tissue paper and paper straws.
Cut the tissue paper into rectangles, stack several identical pieces, and accordion-fold them.
Staple the center, trim both ends into zigzags, then fluff up each layer to form the flower.
Use a straw for the stem: wrap it with masking tape to turn it green, and snip a slit on one end.
Open the slit and attach the flower to finish the carnation.
Make several and wrap them with lace paper to create a bouquet.
A flower card that even 2-year-olds can make!
Here’s a craft idea where you can fold, paste, and enjoy some drawing too.
All you need is construction paper cut into teardrop shapes.
First, paste one piece flat onto a backing sheet.
Then fold the remaining two pieces in half and paste them on the left and right to complete a spring-like tulip.
Draw in the stem and leaves with crayons.
If the child is too young to use scissors, an adult should prepare the teardrop-shaped pieces in advance.
Prepare a variety of colors—red, blue, yellow, and more—and you’ll have a gorgeous flower field.
It also makes a great gift from children to their parents or guardians.
Tear it off and stick it! Laundry
Perfect for warm spring days! Here’s a fun craft making laundry by tearing and pasting paper.
You’ll need a wide rectangular backing sheet, clothing templates, tissue paper, string, clothespins, a tree cutout, glue, and tape.
First, cut out the clothing templates with scissors.
Tear the tissue paper and paste it onto the clothing shapes.
Stick the string onto the backing sheet, then decorate with the tree, clothespins, and the clothes—and you’re done! It’s also fun to let the children choose their favorite colors for the backing sheet and tissue paper.
Hang up your original laundry and enjoy a spring-themed decoration!
My one-piece dress
Why not have fun trying a painting activity inspired by the popular children’s picture book “My Dress”? You will need rabbit parts, a triangle-shaped piece of paper, bottle caps with felt attached, paint, glue, and a pen.
First, stick felt in any shape you like onto a plastic bottle cap.
Dip the felt in paint and stamp patterns onto the triangle paper.
Once the paint is dry, glue on the face and hands.
Draw the face, add decorations around it, and you’re done! Make it colorful with your favorite colors.
Make it with kitchen paper! A cute bouquet
Here’s a craft idea for making flowers that also lets you enjoy a bleeding-ink effect.
Prepare two circles cut from kitchen paper and draw on them with water-based markers.
Once you’ve finished drawing, stack the circles, scrunch them up, pinch a bit of the back side at the center, and wrap a chenille stem (pipe cleaner) around it as the stem.
Then simply spray the kitchen paper with water using a mist sprayer to let the ink bleed.
Make several and bundle them together to create a lovely bouquet! It’s especially fun to use multiple marker colors and enjoy the blended color changes.
Braided Koinobori (carp streamer)
Grow focus! Here’s an idea for woven koinobori (carp streamers).
You’ll need colored construction paper, glue, scissors, a pencil, a ruler, and a compass.
Make the base of the koinobori with your favorite color paper and cut a slit down the middle.
Take long, narrow strips of paper and weave them through the slit, alternating back and front to complete the first row.
From the second row onward, the key is to adjust the strips so the colors alternate.
Because it involves lots of fine finger movements, this is a stimulating craft idea for children.
figure-eight pinwheel
Feel the spring breeze! Here’s how to make a figure-eight pinwheel that’s perfect for preschool activities.
You will need: paper plates, double-sided tape, wood glue, bamboo skewers, beads, and decorations.
Cut out the centers of two paper plates.
Punch four holes, then combine the plates into a figure-eight shape using double-sided tape.
Put a bit of wood glue into a bead’s hole and attach it to a bamboo skewer.
After threading it through the hole, wrap tape around the skewer so the plate doesn’t slide down.
Assemble the second tier the same way, add decorations, and you’re done!