For 5-Year-Olds: Let’s Make It! A Collection of Craft Ideas to Feel the Spring
With the arrival of spring and the move up to the next class, the five-year-olds are surely brimming with excitement as they enter their final year at the preschool.
You can see them enjoying themselves—taking on projects with a strong sense of purpose and showing their originality.
This time, we’re introducing spring craft ideas that are perfect for five-year-olds.
We’ve gathered a range from slightly more challenging projects to ideas they can actually play with.
These are activities that five-year-olds will find rewarding to work on.
Teachers, please enjoy them together with the children!
Note: Because children’s creations are treated as works, we use the term “seisaku” in the text to mean “production/creation as a work.”
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[For 5-year-olds] Let’s make it! A collection of craft ideas that feel like spring (71–80)
Tulips Made with Swipe Art
Let me introduce tulips made with swipe art featuring beautiful patterns.
Prepare paints, a sponge, construction paper, crayons, and round stickers, and let’s get started.
Drip about three colors of paint vertically onto the construction paper.
Use the sponge to swipe the dripped paint horizontally.
By swiping across several times, the colors will blend and create enjoyable patterns.
Cut the paper into a tulip shape and glue it onto a backing sheet, draw the stem, add leaves using round stickers, and you’re done! It makes a great wall display where you can enjoy the color transitions, so give it a try.
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Make it with a clear file folder and paper plates! Here’s an idea for a small pouch that looks like a handbag.
It’s perfect for yourself, and also recommended as a gift for Mother’s Day or Family Day.
You’ll need paper plates, a hole punch, chenille stems (pipe cleaners), beads, a clear file folder, scissors, and double-sided tape.
If you place carnations made from the children’s handprints in the finished piece, it will make an even more wonderful gift.
Take this opportunity to give it a try!
Colorful Tulips Made from Scrap Materials
Let me introduce colorful tulips made from upcycled materials using toilet paper rolls.
Prepare toilet paper rolls, paint, brushes, and colored pens.
Draw the shape of a tulip on the toilet paper roll with a pen and cut it out.
If you flatten the roll first, it’s easier to draw the design.
Once you’ve painted the tulips with paint, they’re done! Adding patterns inside the tulips can make them feel even more spring-like.
It’s also a great idea to display them in your room to enjoy the spring atmosphere.
Spring hanging scroll
We’ll introduce how to make a spring hanging scroll that brightens up your room with a spring-like touch.
Prepare branches, construction paper, tissue paper, tapioca straws, glue, and scissors.
After choosing the color of the construction paper for the base of the hanging scroll, glue a branch onto white construction paper to set the center of the cherry tree.
Glue tissue paper onto circles cut from construction paper, then attach them around the branch.
By using pink for the cherry blossoms and green for the leaves as they start to appear, you can express the changing of the seasons.
Glue tapioca straws to the top and bottom of the hanging scroll, thread a string through, and it’s complete! It’s also great for spring wall displays.
Let’s paint spring with fluffy paints.
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Introducing fluffy paint for drawing springtime art that makes you want to touch the puffy parts.
Prepare shaving foam, liquid laundry glue, paint, plastic cups, plastic spoons, and drawing paper.
Sketch your picture on the paper beforehand.
In a plastic cup, combine shaving foam and liquid glue in a 1:1 ratio and mix.
Add paint to color it, then use a plastic spoon to place the foamy paint onto your sketched drawing.
When it dries, you’ll have a cute, puffy spring picture! Once dry, you can touch it, so enjoy the fun texture—give this charming and magical craft a try!
Hanging decorations of the Sakura Dome
Introducing a hanging Sakura dome decoration, perfect for spring with its gently swaying pink hues.
Prepare a dome-shaped paper plate, tissue paper, curling ribbon, ribbon for hanging, origami paper, glue, and tape.
Glue torn pieces of tissue paper onto the paper plate, making sure there are no gaps.
Cut the curling ribbon and attach the strips to the inside of the paper plate, leaving small spaces between them.
Punch a hole in the center of the plate and thread the hanging ribbon through it.
Cut sakura shapes out of origami paper and stick them onto the front of the plate.
Your soft, spring-like hanging decoration is complete!
Bouquet made of yarn
https://www.tiktok.com/@michiko05057157/video/7359742967738928392Let’s make it by winding yarn round and round! Here are some bouquet ideas you can create with yarn.
Yarn is a soft thread used for knitting and crafts.
It’s usually made primarily from wool, but there are also varieties made from materials like acrylic, nylon, and cotton.
This time, let’s make cute carnations using yarn.
It’s best if a teacher or guardian handles steps like wrapping the wire and floral tape for safety.
Make a wonderful gift together with your child and give it to someone special!