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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[Age 5] Let’s Make It! A Collection of Craft Ideas that Feel Like Spring (1–10)
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.
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!
Perfect for spring! How to make fava beans
This is a cute broad bean craft.
Use glue to stick the prepared broad beans and parts onto construction paper.
When you’re done, use stickers and crayons to draw faces and add expressions.
It’s fun to make while thinking, “What kind of face should I do?” The steps are simple, so it’s an easy project for the beginning of a new school year or right after entering school.
If you stick them on construction paper, they make adorable pieces, and if you make a lot, they’re great as wall decorations.
Please use this as a reference and try your own variations!
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Connect the loops to make a ring caterpillar
Here’s a craft idea for making a caterpillar using classic loop chains, often used as birthday decorations.
Cut construction paper into long strips, form a loop and glue it; then thread the next strip through that loop, form another loop, and glue it the same way.
Repeat to create the caterpillar’s body.
Draw a face on a circle cut from construction paper, and attach antennae made by wrapping pipe cleaners around a pom-pom.
Once you fix the face to the body with double-sided tape, it’s complete! If you connect a stick with a tied string, you might be able to take it for a little walk around the room.
Let’s draw cherry blossoms using only a straw!
Make five evenly spaced cuts on one side of a straw, then spread that section out into a flower shape.
After that, just dip it in pink paint and stamp it to create a cherry blossom tree.
Beforehand, stick a trunk made from construction paper onto the backing sheet, and have the children stamp over it.
You can stamp to clearly show the flower shape, or layer the stamps to express a tree in full bloom.
After pressing the stamp onto the backing sheet, move the handle in a circular motion as it is.
That will create a clean flower shape!
How to make a 3D dandelion
Here’s an idea for a softly rounded, three-dimensional dandelion finished by curling it up.
One of its charms is that it can be made with simple materials.
Fold a sheet of origami paper in half, make fine cuts, then roll it up tightly.
Fold another piece of origami into a diamond shape and open it outward to create the base for the petals.
Apply glue to attach them, and gently spread the petals to complete a three-dimensional flower.
Using different shades of yellow makes it even more vibrant.
The instructions are easy to follow, making it a project that people of all ages can enjoy together.
Easter Eggs Made with a Hole Punch
Perfect for decorating your Easter event venue! Here’s an idea for making Easter eggs using leftover construction paper and a hole punch.
What you’ll need: a base sheet of colored construction paper, glue, a hole punch, a small container, and leftover construction paper.
The children are five years old and are used to doing crafts, but how do you store partially used sheets of paper? Try cutting them into circles with a hole punch and creating dot art! You can spread glue over an egg-shaped base and sprinkle the paper circles all over, which looks lovely, or draw patterns with glue first and then cover them with paper circles in your favorite colors—that’s great too!