Hand Print Butterflies Spring Craft

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Materials:

Scrapbook paper or other colourful paper 

Papertowel/toilet paper rolls

Paint

Glue

Googley eyes

Scissors 

Willing victims ;)

Paint one hand at a time and use to make the wings. Depending on the age/ability of the child either cut the wings out for them or have them cut their own. 

Paint the papertowel rolls while the butterfly dries. If its dry, use glue and apply glitter to the wings while the body (roll) dries. In our case it was lunch time so we put our glue and glitter on later. 

Glue body onto the butterfly wings. Add eyes and antennas. For the antennas we used scraps of the paper left over from the wings and folded it like an accordion. 

Apply dots of glue and glitter! 

Let dry and hand from the ceilings or in a window! Fantastic! 

Egg Carton Seed Starters

Use old egg cartons to start seeds for spring flowers or vegetables... For free! Just buy soil and seeds. 

"Robin Robin Red Breast" Spring Craft w/ Nest & Egg

Materials:

Brown Paint
Red Paint 
Paint Brush
Googley Eyes
Orange foam to cut beaks and feet
Scissors
Shredded brown or tan paper for nest
Blue foam eggs

Red feathers 
Glue

Paint the child's foot brown, or if they are able to, allow them to paint it themselves. Use the foot like a stamp to make the body of the robin on the paper.

Use red paint to paint the robin's red breast, this will later also have a red feather attached. 

Glue in eyes, beak, feet and feather. 

Build a nest out of shredded brown paper and glue it to the paper. 

Place your egg in the nest and glue it in place (I actually had self sticking eggs left from Easter). Voila! 

Blue Bird Spring Craft: Frugal Fun

We all love the sounds of the birds chirping in the morning and lately there has been a woodpecker making its home in a tree just outside the daycare. 

We have been talking a lot about birds and decided to do a bluebird and nest craft. This craft costs almost nothing, assuming you have the shredded paper we used to make the nest, it was saved from packaging of an item we ordered online. I knew it would come in handy one of these days! If you do not have the shredded paper, you can cut thin pieces of beige or brown construction paper, use a paper shredder if you have one. 

We started off by mixing some white, blue and a tiny bit of yellow together to make the colour we wanted for our bluebird. We then use a sponge to paint our hands (but not the thumb) and stamp them on the paper. 

We let the paint dry and then glued on eyes and a beak, and spread on glue for the nest. We finished by putting the shredded/crinkled papers under the bird as if it was a nest.

Once dry, you can shake off the extra papers. What a simple yet fun spring craft :) 

Free Craft Alert! Rainbow Colour Cards

Use large Behr paint cards to make this craft. You can pick them up for free at just about any location that sells Behr paints. I chose all the colours of the rainbow to help our preschoolers and toys remember and learn their colors.

We used the colors of the rainbow in that order:red, orange, yellow, green, blue and purple. 

I pre-punched the little holes to put the ribbon and pre-cut lengths of white ribbon.  When doing the craft we handed out the ribbon and one colour card at a time. 

Once we had all 6 colour cards on the ribbon we tied it, and then used the fancy hole punches to decorateour colour   cards :)

Children under 3 needed help to put the ribbon in the holes and help to punch the  fancy hole punches but otherwise enjoyed the craft and loved their rainbow colour cards!