Spring wall decorations: A roundup of recommended motifs for nurseries and kindergartens

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At daycare centers and kindergartens, you make fun wall displays every month, right?

Spring wall displays are full of cute motifs.

For teachers who are unsure which ones to use, here’s a roundup of wall display ideas perfect for spring, from March to May!

Cherry blossoms, colorful flowers, and adorable spring insects will brighten up the classroom.

If you make them together with the children, the fun doubles!

You can also combine several motifs to create original decorations.

Try expressing the excitement of spring on your walls!

Spring wall decorations: A roundup of recommended motifs for nurseries and kindergartens (41–50)

Papercut of a dandelion

Let’s make it with scissors! Here are some cut-paper dandelion ideas.

You’ll need yellow origami paper, glue or double-sided tape, scissors, and a compass.

Using the yellow origami paper, cut out three sizes of dandelions—large, medium, and small.

Layering the three sizes will give the petals a three-dimensional look and create a gorgeous finish.

If you also cut green origami paper to make the stem and leaves, it ties everything together beautifully.

Give it a try!

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Spring wall decorations: A roundup of recommended motifs for daycare and kindergarten (51–60)

Butterflies made with torn paper collage

Here’s how to make butterflies flying around a flower field.

Cut construction paper into the shapes of butterfly wings and a body to create the base.

If you layer two sheets of construction paper for the base, it will be sturdier.

Tear pieces of origami paper and glue them onto the wings.

Using patterned origami will make it look more festive and give it a spring-like feel.

For the body, add round stickers to distinguish it from the wings.

Draw facial expressions, and your butterfly is complete.

Tearing the origami by hand lets you enjoy differences in shapes and sizes.

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A cherry blossom tree made with torn-paper collage

Cherry blossoms are the quintessential spring flowers—almost their synonym.

How about incorporating a torn-paper collage to create a cherry tree? Start by making the trunk on colored construction paper, then draw plenty of branches on top with crayons.

The more branches, the better.

Next, tear pieces of paper and glue them over the branches—mix pink origami, patterned origami, tissue paper, and other colors and textures for a fun, vibrant finish.

Adding little butterflies and other details around it would make it even cuter.

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Butterflies and horsetails

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Choose your favorite technique and give it a try! Here are ideas for butterflies and field horsetails.

Seeing butterfly and horsetail motifs can bring a feeling of spring indoors, right? This time, let’s use stamping and decalcomania techniques to create cute butterflies and horsetails.

For stamping, prepare drawing paper, water balloons, a fork, and paint.

For decalcomania, prepare drawing paper, cut cardboard, and paint.

Each technique has a lovely feel, so choose based on your child’s age and interests.

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Ladybugs and dandelions

We’re introducing how to make cute spring dandelions and round little ladybugs.

Please prepare the bases for the dandelions and the ladybugs ahead of time, teachers.

Stick double-sided tape on the dandelion flower area, and have the children attach torn, crumpled pieces of yellow tissue paper there.

For the ladybug’s spots, use black paint and make finger stamps; if using fingers is tricky, cotton swabs also make adorable stamps! Finally, attach the facial parts of the ladybug to finish.

They look very cute whether you mount them on a backing sheet or display them as they are.

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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!

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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!

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