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[For 4-Year-Olds] Feel the Spring Up Close! Fun and Easy Craft Ideas You’ll Love

20 years of experience as a nursery teacher / kindergarten teacherhiyoko sensei
I’m Hiyoko-sensei, a former nursery school teacher from Hyogo Prefecture. Ever since I was five, my dream was to become a childcare worker, and before I knew it, 20 years had passed since I achieved that dream. Through singing and playing with the children, I kept working with the spirit of someone in their twenties, even as I increasingly felt my physical limits year by year (haha). From here on, I’d like to share helpful information carefully and thoughtfully, drawing on my on-site experience.
9 years of experience as a nursery school teacherShibata Risa
I am an active nursery school teacher with 9 years of experience. After graduating from university, I worked at a daycare center. The time I spent happily with children—playing piano, singing songs, and doing finger-play—are priceless memories to me. Currently, while raising three children of my own, I work at an after-school day service, engaging with children and providing individualized developmental support. Drawing on my diverse experiences as a childcare worker and as a mother, I hope to express and convey my thoughts through writing.

Spring is when colorful flowers bloom and insects begin to move about energetically.

Many teachers may be thinking, “I want children to feel the charms of spring!”

So this time, we’ve gathered spring-themed craft ideas recommended for four-year-olds.

Packed with fun projects that incorporate spring motifs familiar to children—like cherry blossoms, dandelions, butterflies, and ladybugs!

These ideas focus on enjoying self-expression while expanding their imaginations, as well as experiencing a variety of techniques and materials, so be sure to check them out.

Because the children’s creations are treated as artworks, the term used in the text is “制作” (seisaku), meaning “art/craft production.”

[For 4-Year-Olds] Feel the spring around you! Fun-to-make recommended craft ideas (31–40)

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.

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Easy tulips you can enjoy by sticking them on

@hoiku.labo
For a March wall display: Just cut and paste! Easy tulips 🌷#Childcare Crafting Nursery teacher / Childcare worker #Drawers of Childcare #NurseryTeacherInTraining #NurseryTeacherThings With children Felt #Wall Creation Tulip
♪ Original Song – Craft Ideas for Childcare ♪ Hoiku Kyujin Labo – Hoiku Kyujin Labo | Nursery Teacher Job Changes and Helpful Information

Here’s a gentle and fun craft that lets you enjoy a springlike atmosphere.

Cut construction paper into the shape of a tulip to make a base.

Next, prepare felt in your favorite colors and cut it into circles, squares, or any sizes and shapes you like.

Once you’re ready, stick the felt pieces onto the tulip base to decorate.

If you start with the larger felt pieces, it’s easier to keep things balanced and to place them.

By decorating freely, you’ll create a colorful and cute tulip.

Finally, glue on a stem and leaves made from construction paper to finish.

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Quick and easy with bubble wrap stamps! Cute beehive

For spring crafts! An easy way to make a beehive using bubble wrap stamps

Quick and easy with bubble wrap stamps! Cute beehive

This is a fun stamping activity to make a cute honeycomb using bubble wrap.

Roll the bubble wrap to create a stamp, dab it in paint, and pop-pop it onto construction paper to easily make a honeycomb-like pattern.

Using two colors of paint lets you enjoy the contrast and looks very pretty.

Once the pattern is done, make bees and other parts and glue them on.

Since it’s just stamping, even young children can enjoy it and get absorbed in the activity.

After you attach the parts at the end, your adorable honeycomb artwork is complete!

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Newspaper stamp fun! How to make cherry blossoms

Crumple up a sheet of newspaper and use it as a stamp to make cute cherry blossoms 🌸✨ #shorts #preschoolcrafts #cherryblossomcraft #springcrafts #fortwoyearolds #marchcrafts

Newspaper stamp fun! How to make cherry blossoms

Once you roll up newspaper into a ball, dip it in paint and dab away! That alone creates a cherry blossom craft perfect for spring.

After stamping on cherry-colored construction paper, cut it out to resemble the blossoms on a cherry tree.

Combine it with a trunk made from brown construction paper and attach everything to the base to finish.

For the base, prepare construction paper in sky blue to suggest the sky and green to suggest a spring field.

By adding green only to the lower part of the blue paper, you can represent a cherry tree blooming on a hill.

Besides deep pink, I think using white or yellow paint will also look beautiful.

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Cute butterflies made from construction paper

[Preschool Craft] Spring Craft! Colorful Paper Butterflies Made with Construction Paper

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.

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[For 4-year-olds] Feel the spring around you! Fun and recommended craft ideas (41–50)

wiggly inchworm

[Easy Spring Craft Idea] Wiggly Paper Caterpillar 🐛💕 #PreschoolCrafts #NurseryTeacher #TeachingIdeas #FutureNurseryTeachers #TeacherLife #WithKids #ConstructionPaper #PaperCraft #PaperProject

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.

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Sakura tree made with transparent origami

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Here’s what we’re sharing this time: “A Sakura Tree with a Stained-Glass Look Using Transparent Origami”! It’s an arranged version of our popular posts “Colorful Autumn Tree” and “Christmas Tree.” This time it’s back as a cherry blossom tree. The cherry blossom season is coming, isn’t it? Are you going flower viewing? It’s easy and cute to make at home or in the classroom, so I’d be happy if you copy it and give it a try! 😊#March production #April Production Nursery teacher / Childcare worker #Nursery School Craft #SpringCrafts #Spring crafts
Haru no Uta – Sakura Fujiwara

I want to decorate a sunny windowsill! Here’s an idea for making a cherry blossom tree using transparent origami paper.

You’ll need brown construction paper, scissors, glue, transparent origami paper or colored cellophane, a clear file (plastic sleeve), and a cherry blossom-shaped frame made from construction paper.

Traditional-style cherry blossom crafts are lovely, but why not use this idea to create bright, stylish blossoms? Displayed by the window, they’ll sparkle in the sunlight and give off a different, delightful vibe.

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