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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 and recommended craft ideas to make (51–60)

bamboo shoot

[Origami] How to fold a “Bamboo Shoot” <Yoshimoto Comedian>

bamboo shoot

In season in spring! Here’s an idea for making bamboo shoots with origami.

All you need is brown origami paper.

Speaking of bamboo shoots, their defining feature is how quickly they grow.

They’re also rich in dietary fiber and nutrients, and their unique texture and aroma are part of their charm.

Let’s try making this seasonal ingredient with origami.

When using this idea to create a bamboo shoot, the key is to make crisp creases and be mindful of the paper’s width.

The step where you fold in the layered paper requires finger strength, so it’s a good activity to do together with a parent or teacher.

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dandelion

[Origami Spring Flowers] Easy and Cute Dandelion Folding Method | Origami Dandelion

dandelion

Cute yellow flowers! Here’s an idea for making dandelions with origami.

You’ll need yellow origami paper, green origami paper, glue or double-sided tape, and scissors.

Dandelion flowers are characterized by many small petals radiating outward.

Using this idea, let’s make a dandelion flower from a single sheet of origami paper! Since scissors are used during the process, it’s best to work together with a parent or teacher.

Give it a try!

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broccoli

How to fold an origami broccoli [Vegetables] Origami Broccoli

broccoli

Let’s make vegetables with origami! Here’s an idea for broccoli.

What you’ll need: green origami paper and colored pencils or crayons.

Broccoli is something children often see at home or in school lunches, so it’s probably a familiar vegetable to them.

This time, let’s try making broccoli out of origami! There are many steps, so some children might find it difficult, but working together with a parent or teacher can make it fun.

Try to keep the broccoli’s round shape in mind as you make it.

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Various kinds of rapeseed flowers

Rape blossoms are cute with their small yellow flowers.

How about incorporating rape blossoms into your crafts using a variety of techniques? Prepare yellow flower-shaped construction paper.

You can create the small flowers with fingertip stamping, round stickers, torn-paper collage, or by crumpling and gluing tissue paper—there are many materials and methods you can use.

Crumpling and attaching tissue paper also gives a three-dimensional effect.

When making them with finger stamps, try expressing them with various warm colors.

They’re perfect for wall decorations, too.

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[Age 4] Feel the arrival of spring up close! Fun and recommended craft ideas (61–70)

flower picking game

Here’s an idea that lets you feel the richness of spring’s nature.

Pick flowers that bloom in spring, like dandelions and clover, and try making seasonal items.

While enjoying the warm, gentle spring weather, go flower picking with the children.

Simply playing at picking flowers is fun, but you can also decorate a cardboard backing with the flowers.

Draw illustrations like butterflies or vases, and let everyone freely arrange the flowers they picked.

After enjoying it as an activity, try turning your creations into items you can display as spring decorations.

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Soap bubbles made with tissue paper

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Soft pastel colors are so beautiful! Let me introduce an idea for making “soap bubbles” using tissue paper.

You’ll need tissue paper, white drawing paper, a spray bottle, a compass, and scissors.

First, tear tissue paper in various colors and spread the pieces over the white drawing paper.

Next, fill the spray bottle with water and spritz it to dampen the tissue paper.

Once it’s dry, remove the tissue paper and use scissors to cut the drawing paper into circles.

If you display them together with children’s photos or illustrations of straws, they’ll look even cuter.

Be sure to give it a try!

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Butterfly made with accordion folding

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Here’s what we’re bringing you this time: “Just fold it accordion-style♪ Butterfly Paper Fan”! A spring craft 🌷 When you think of P-chan, you think of paper fans 🦋💓 This spring version ✨ turned into a lovely butterfly ❤︎#March production 3#March production #April Production Nursery teacher / Childcare worker #Nursery School CraftPaper fan yōcho
Pairing – Masanori Onda

Here’s how to make a butterfly mobile using accordion folds.

Prepare construction paper, glue, and patterned origami paper.

Glue the patterned origami at the center of a circle cut from construction paper.

Make an accordion fold, then fold it in half and glue it so it forms a heart shape.

Make another one the same way, then glue the two hearts together to form a butterfly.

Add antennae to complete your cute butterfly.

It will look lovely and spring-like as a wall decoration or as part of a mobile!

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