[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.
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[Early Childhood Education] Fun to Make! Recommended Spring Craft Ideas (21–30)
Artworks created using natural materials
April has just the right climate and is the perfect season for walks and playing in the playground.
Here’s an activity for creating artworks using natural materials like leaves and branches found outdoors.
Prepare a container to collect fallen leaves and other items.
If children decorate their own container with stickers or markers, they’ll feel more attached to it and enjoy the activity even more.
Use cotton swabs to apply glue to the collected leaves and flowers, then stick them onto construction paper.
When placing the items, it’s important to value the child’s sensibilities and let them lead the process.
Once finished, display the pieces and enjoy the artwork!
Tulips made with quilling
Enjoy a special feel with curly patterns! Here are some tulip ideas you can make with quilling.
These are recommended for those who are tired of flat wall decorations or want to create tulips with a touch of humor.
Quilling is an art technique where you roll and bend thin strips of paper to create three-dimensional designs and patterns.
Cut paper into long, thin strips, roll them up, and shape them.
By combining designs like tulip flowers, butterflies, and leaves, you can create a striking wall display.
[Childcare] Fun to Make! Recommended Spring Craft Ideas (31–40)
Fluffy Tissue Paper Butterflies
Gorgeous and beautiful! Here are some ideas for making fluffy butterflies with tissue paper.
Let’s use tissue paper—often used for crafts with a soft, elegant look—to create butterflies that look ready to flutter away.
Tissue paper comes in a wide range of colors, so it’s great that you can combine your favorite shades.
When spreading the wings, gently and lightly fluff them out for a more beautiful finish.
Give it a try!
Horsetail made by rolling up origami
Horsetails suddenly sprout from the soil when the weather gets warm—they’re plants you only see in spring.
Let’s try making these uniquely shaped, season-limited horsetails out of rolled origami.
Use light brown origami for the base stem, and dark brown origami to create the jagged section along the stem and the rounded tip.
Before shaping, firmly crease the origami to convey the plant’s softness—this is a key step.
If you also craft other grasses and show the horsetail rising taller than the surrounding plants, it will emphasize even more that warm spring has arrived.
Making dandelions with plastic raffia (suzuran tape)
Here’s a craft project for making dandelions with yellow raffia tape.
Wrap the raffia tape around a piece of cardboard to give the dandelion volume.
About 10 wraps creates a nice, full dandelion.
Remove the tape from the cardboard, tie the center, and then split the strands while imagining the dandelion’s petals.
Stick the raffia tape together with double-sided tape, draw the leaves with crayons, and you’re done! It might also be fun to draw your favorite insects and flowers around it.
Easter Bunny
For Easter, the event symbolized by eggs and rabbits, how about making an adorable Easter rabbit? First, prepare plenty of colored construction paper cut into small egg shapes.
Draw any patterns you like on the surface and fold each piece in half vertically.
Apply glue to one half of a folded piece, then keep stacking the folded eggs together.
When you stack four pieces, it turns into a three-dimensional egg.
Attach rabbit ears made from colored paper to it.
The plump shape makes for a cute, eye-catching Easter egg—enjoy using it as a decoration!
Paper-cut dandelion
Let’s make a pop-up-style paper-cut dandelion.
Prepare three sheets of origami in different sizes.
Fold each sheet in half into a square twice, then into a triangle; open it, and fold both sides toward the center crease.
Fold all three sheets the same way.
Draw guide lines and cut along them.
Use the largest cut dandelion as the base, apply double-sided tape to the center, and layer the pieces in order from largest to smallest.
Make the leaves and stem from green origami—sketch them first, and be sure to cut the leaves with a jagged edge.
Attach the dandelion, stem, and leaves together to finish.