[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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[Childcare] Fun to Make! Recommended Craft Ideas for Spring (51–60)
Tulips made with a bleeding/blending technique
Here’s a wall decoration of tulips made by letting colors bleed on kitchen paper to create vibrant effects.
Prepare construction paper, kitchen paper, paints, scissors, and glue.
Lightly dilute the paint and apply it to the kitchen paper, letting it blend in.
Once the paint is dry, cut the paper into teardrop shapes.
Cut the construction paper into teardrops of the same size.
Glue the kitchen paper and construction paper teardrops together to form tulips, and you’re done.
Give it a try—these softly blurred colors make beautifully delicate tulips!
Tulips Painted with the Wet-on-Wet Technique
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Let me introduce tulips made with a bleeding-painting technique that lets you enjoy how colors blend.
Prepare a coffee filter, water-based color pens, a spray bottle, construction paper, glue, and scissors.
Draw on the coffee filter with the color pens.
When you spray water over it, the water-based ink will bleed and blend.
Once it’s dry, cut it into a tulip shape and glue it onto a backing sheet to finish.
If you like, adding eyes made from round stickers to the tulip could be cute too!
Butterflies made with swipe art
The colorful hues spark children’s curiosity! Here are butterfly ideas you can make with swipe art.
Swipe art is an art technique where you pour paint onto a canvas or drawing paper and swipe it horizontally using a sponge or a card.
The charm lies in how the colors blend and create unique patterns as you swipe.
This time, let’s make the butterfly that appears in The Very Hungry Caterpillar.
It’s a fun idea where you can enjoy the changes as the vibrant paints mix together!
Fold-Only Tulip
Let me introduce an easy “fold-only” tulip that also works as a three-dimensional wall decoration.
Prepare patterned origami paper, construction paper, crayons, glue, and scissors.
Cut the construction paper into circles in pairs and fold each circle in half.
By using construction paper in different colors, you can enjoy variations in the tulip’s flower color.
Glue the tulip’s center piece cut from the patterned origami together with the pair of folded petals, and your tulip flower is complete.
Draw leaves with crayons to create a springlike tulip!
[Early Childhood Education] Fun to Make! Recommended Spring Craft Ideas (61–70)
A cute flower made from one sheet of tissue paper
Here’s how to make a cute flower using just one sheet of tissue paper.
First, fold the tissue paper into an accordion.
Then fold it in half.
After folding, round off the edges with scissors.
Staple the center, and gently open up the flower.
Once it’s opened, press down the center to finish.
You can make lots of flowers to decorate a wall, add leaves to make a bouquet, or cut the edges into points to turn it into a dandelion—there are many ways to arrange them, so give it a try!
Tissue-paper butterfly
Why not try making fluffy butterflies using soft tissue paper? If you use a template, you can easily make them in bulk.
Start by creating a butterfly template with dark-colored tissue paper.
Divide the tissue paper into six equal parts and cut out the template with scissors.
Once cut, stick it onto copier paper and make copies.
Stack several sheets of butterfly tissue paper on top of the copied paper, staple around the edges, and then cut them out along with the template.
After cutting, twist a chenille stem (pipe cleaner) around the center of the butterfly paper to finish.
Tulip wall decoration
Make use of paper plates! Here’s an idea for a wall decoration made by attaching tulips.
It’s perfect for those who want to create small decorations due to the size of the classroom or limited display space.
You can also hang them not only on walls but on doors, lockers, or shoe racks.
You’ll need: decorative paper plates, origami paper, ribbon, glue or tape, tissue paper, twist ties, and scissors.
Displaying colorful tulip creations in the room will brighten up the space!