"Free Spring Craft Projects for Preschoolers"
© 2006 Christine Louise Hohlbaum
For many of you, it has been a long winter. What better way to invite spring into your children’s lives than with a spring craft project? Here are some craft ideas with items you have lying about the house which practice your preschooler’s creativity, colors and fine motor skills.
Papertowel Tulips
What you Need: empty toilet paper roll, colored construction paper, scissors
Age group 3+
Cut out flower shapes using the colored construction paper. Wrap green paper around the toilet paper roll. Fit to size, then glue it. Glue the flower “heads” on the top of the paper roll.
Spring Chickens
What you Need: yellow food coloring, white eggs, egg carton, paper
Age group: 4+
Blow out raw eggs for the shell only. Clean the egg shell well. Mix food coloring with vinegar and water, ten to one ratio. Dip the egg shell until you get the color you like. Place it on a baker’s drying rack to dry. Shred colored or white paper and place into an egg carton. Mark the dry egg shell to make eyes, a beak or whatever face you want. Viola! A spring chicken is born.
Spring Flowers Collage
What you need: seed catalogues, old magazines, scissors, paper and glue
Age Group: 2+
Have your children cut out pictures of flowers of old magazines or catalogues. Use a large piece of paper (recycled from some other use, if possible) to paste the pictures on the collage. Allow them to arrange the pictures as they please.
Result: Spring color even if winter hangs on until May!
Christine Louise Hohlbaum, American author of Diary of a Mother: Parenting Stories and Other Stuff and SAHM I Am: Tales of a Stay-at-Home Mom in Europe, has been published in hundreds of publications. When she isn't writing, leading seminars or wiping up messes, she prefers to frolic in the Bavarian countryside near Munich where she lives with her husband and two children. Visit her Web site: http://www.DiaryofaMother.com.