For three-year-olds: A collection of craft ideas featuring spring events and creatures that you’ll want to make with your three-year-old
When spring comes, flowers bloom and living creatures become more active.
Three-year-olds are probably discovering many signs of spring through outdoor activities, too.
So this time, we’ve put together craft ideas perfect for three-year-olds to try in spring.
We introduce many ideas that use fun techniques, a variety of materials, and even recycled items.
Please consider incorporating activities that let children experience satisfaction and a sense of accomplishment.
Because we treat what children make as works of art, we refer to them as “seisaku” (productions) in the text.
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[Age 3] A collection of craft ideas (11–20) for things you’ll want to make with three-year-olds, featuring spring events and creatures
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.
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!
Perfect for walls! A butterfly craft that makes paint play fun
Cut an A4 sheet of drawing paper into the shape of a butterfly, then apply paint on just one side.
Once you’re ready, fold it in half and lift the wing—your design will have transferred beautifully to the other side! You can also enjoy the excitement of seeing what pattern appears the moment you open it.
After that, attach the wings to another A4 sheet for the background, and stick a photo of your child in the center.
You’ll have a one-of-a-kind, adorable butterfly! It will look very spring-like on a wall display and become a wonderful, memorable piece.
Cute butterflies made from construction paper
Here’s how to make colorful butterflies that are perfect for sticker play.
Fold a small piece of construction paper in half, draw one wing, and cut along the outline.
Next, prepare a circle cut from construction paper and cut only one half of it in two.
Glue these onto the wings.
Stick round stickers in your favorite colors on the wings.
Cut a chenille stem to about 5 cm, then curl the ends into small circles.
Tape the chenille stem to the back with clear tape.
Draw a face with a pen or similar, and you’re done.
It also looks cute if you draw your favorite designs on the wings with crayons.
wiggly inchworm
A wiggly caterpillar you can make with construction paper! It’s perfect for spring crafts.
First, stick double-sided tape onto the construction paper and cut it with scissors.
Try to keep the strips as even as possible, cutting up to just before the tape.
After you peel off the tape backing, make loops with the cut strips and attach them.
Put double-sided tape on the caterpillar’s face section as well, and make a loop there in the same way.
Finally, attach the facial features, and you’re done! For the face parts, it’s cute to have the kids draw them themselves, adjusting to their age.
Make it with paper cutting! Dandelion fluff
Here’s a gentle, paper-cutting idea that captures the soft, airy spread of dandelion fluff.
Prepare origami paper, scissors, and a pencil.
Fold the origami paper in half twice, then fold it again into a triangle.
Open and align the layers so they fan outward, sketch the dandelion seed design, and cut carefully.
The key to a neat finish is to take your time with the fine details.
When you gently unfold it, a radiating pattern appears, revealing delicate fluff.
It’s a project that’s fun to open and see, recommended for both kids and adults.
Display it by a window to let the light shine through and make it even more beautiful.
[Age 3] A collection of craft ideas (21–30) to make with three-year-olds featuring spring events and creatures
Spring flowers made with blow painting
We’ll introduce a spring craft using a blow-painting technique to make spring flowers.
Prepare drawing paper, crayons, paint, brushes, and water.
Draw the leaves and stem of the flower on the paper, and decide where the flower will go.
Slightly above the crayon-drawn stem, drip your chosen paint color with a brush, then blow through a straw.
The paint will spread out, creating petal-like shapes and delightful, unexpected patterns.
When blowing through the straw, hold it a little away from the paint and blow with some force—that’s the key.
Give this a try for your spring art project!
