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[Childcare] Fun to Make! Recommended Craft Ideas for Spring
In spring, with new admissions and moving up to the next class, you can see children in all sorts of states—excited, nervous, and everything in between.
Many teachers are probably hoping that the children will come to enjoy their days at the preschool/kindergarten.
So this time, we’re sharing craft ideas perfect for spring.
We’ve gathered plenty of motifs that evoke the season—like cherry blossoms, tulips, and ladybugs—as well as ideas you can use for events such as Easter and Hinamatsuri (Girls’ Day).
Decorate various areas to wrap your room in a spring atmosphere, and the children are sure to feel cozy and smile!
Give them a try.
Note: Since the things the children make are treated as “artworks,” we refer to them as “seisaku (制作)” in the text.
[Childcare] Fun to make! Recommended craft ideas for spring (1–10)
Giant dandelion made from construction paper
Let’s make a big, exciting dandelion using A4-size construction paper! Prepare three colors of paper for the petals, stem, and leaves.
First, fold the petal paper in half lengthwise.
Leaving about 2 cm at the top, make fine vertical cuts from the fold.
After cutting, roll it up tightly from one end and secure it, then gently spread open the cut fringes from the outside.
For the stem, roll the construction paper from a corner to form a rod.
For the leaves, cut them out from the paper with the characteristic jagged shape in mind.
Combine the three parts, and you’re done!
Make and play! Fun little butterflies
By attaching a straw as a handle, this is a craft idea that lets you make a butterfly you can flap and play with.
First, we’ll make the butterfly: draw a butterfly on construction paper.
An adult can draw the outline, and let the children enjoy drawing the patterns.
Once the drawing is finished, cut away the excess with scissors and fold the butterfly in half.
Then fold it again 1.5 cm from the crease, open the butterfly back up, and turn it over.
Slip a straw into the section with the creases and secure it, and you’re done!
Let’s make and display it! The Very Hungry Caterpillar
How about making the famous Very Hungry Caterpillar? First, take five sheets of construction paper and cut them into oval shapes to form the caterpillar’s body.
Prepare the antenna pieces as well, then arrange the body segments and stick them onto the backing paper one by one.
After you’re done gluing, use round stickers to decorate freely.
Simply adding stickers in your favorite colors will give you a colorful, cute caterpillar.
Next, draw the face with crayons and add drawings to the background too.
Finally, write your name and you’re done.
Each child’s individuality will shine through in their one-of-a-kind caterpillar.
Fits perfectly on walls too! Cute bubbly strawberries
When you think of strawberries, you picture all those seeds on the surface! In this craft, we’ll use bubble wrap and paint to represent the strawberry’s seeds.
After cutting construction paper into a strawberry shape, layer on bubble wrap brushed with paint and stamp it.
Once the paint dries, finish by adding a calyx made from construction paper.
The classic combo is stamping white paint onto red construction paper, but stamping red paint onto pink paper is cute, too.
What color are strawberry seeds again? Chat about that while you make some delicious spring strawberries.
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.
Stamp play is fun! Cute flowers
https://www.instagram.com/reels/DITVn57yAHe/Here’s a craft idea that uses a stamp made from bubble wrap to depict cherry blossoms.
Lightly sketch the outline of a cherry blossom on pale pink construction paper, and have the children stamp inside the outline.
It’s fine if they go over the lines—unneeded parts will be cut off later! Encourage them to enjoy expressing themselves as they recall cherry blossoms.
The cutting step can be left to the children as good scissor practice.
If you display the cherry blossoms everyone made on the wall, it’ll feel like you can have a cherry-blossom viewing party right in the room!
Let’s decorate with cardboard! Making dandelions that feel like spring
https://www.tiktok.com/@anko_insta/video/7229851032719838465Here’s a spring craft idea where you pick real dandelions and arrange them in a cardboard vase.
Cut the cardboard to a size that’s easy for children to hold, and draw a vase on the lower half.
Punch several holes in the upper half.
Take this piece of cardboard on a walk, pick the dandelions blooming along the roadside, and insert the stems into the holes.
Once you’ve filled all the holes with dandelions, secure them from the back so they don’t slip out.
Find lots of dandelions and fill your vase with spring!