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 (51–60)
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!
flower field mobile
Let’s make it with a paper cup! Here’s an idea for a cute flower-field mobile with fluttering butterflies.
You’ll need a paper cup, scissors, colored construction paper, round stickers, pens, tape, thread, decorative materials, and ribbon.
First, cut six slits evenly around the paper cup.
Open the slits, turn the cup upside down, and round off the tips of the slit sections.
Next, use the colored paper to make butterflies and flowers, and add patterns with round stickers and pens.
Finally, connect the paper cup and the paper motifs with thread, decorate the paper cup, and you’re done!
Hanging weeping cherry (branch)
Great for events too! Let me share an idea for a hanging weeping cherry blossom decoration.
You’ll need a clear plastic umbrella, string, tape, glue, a stapler, scissors, pink tissue paper, and light pink tissue paper.
First, use the two colors of tissue paper to make cherry blossoms.
If you trim them into a forked shape with scissors, you can capture the characteristic look of cherry blossom petals! Next, glue the tissue paper blossoms onto the string.
Finally, tape them to the clear umbrella and you’re done.
It’s portable too, so give it a try!
Easter garland
Let’s make the venue festive for the Easter event! Here are some ideas for Easter garlands made with construction paper.
Prepare construction paper in your favorite colors, decorative materials like stickers and washi tape, jute twine, a pencil, a ruler, double-sided tape or tape glue, scissors, and a hole punch.
Cut the construction paper into egg shapes and decorate them however you like! Using sparkly materials and patterned washi tape will make the finish even more vibrant.
[Age 5] Let’s Make It! A Collection of Craft Ideas that Feel Like Spring (61–70)
Dandelions made with stamps
Easy yet wonderfully eye-catching! Let’s make dandelion flowers using a stamp! The process is very simple.
Prepare a toilet paper roll and make lots of slits on one end.
Add many fine cuts while imagining dandelion petals.
Fold the cut sections outward, and your stamp is ready! Draw the dandelion stems and leaves on a sheet of construction paper as the base, then dip the toilet paper roll stamp in yellow paint and start stamping on top.
The toilet paper roll stamp is large and easy to grip, so even very young children can enjoy it.
It’s a great craft that uses familiar recycled materials, so give it a try!
cardboard camera
Let me introduce a cardboard camera that’s perfect for a walk.
Prepare cardboard, cellophane, a paper cup, and double-sided tape.
Cut two pieces of cardboard to the size of the camera you want to make.
Take a paper cup that’s cut in half horizontally with slits cut vertically, place it against the cardboard, then cut out a lens shape and fit it in.
Stick colored cellophane over the top, glue the cardboard pieces together, and you’re done! Try adding a yarn strap for walks or changing the cellophane colors and decorating it as you like!
A mobile made with your favorite characters
Why not decorate the room with your children’s favorite characters? You can use characters from anime or games as materials, or—if characters aren’t allowed at your school—use animals or picture books they love instead! Once you’ve chosen the materials, print them out on a computer.
Also print one reversed copy so you can glue the front and back together.
Laminate the finished pieces and cut them out, then punch holes so you can attach strings.
Try decorating them like a mobile, using branches the children found in the yard or during outdoor activities.
Swaying gently in the pleasant spring breeze, they’ll look absolutely lovely.
