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How to Fold a Standing Paper Goose and Duck to Celebrate Spring - Spring is here so it is is a great time to make ducks and geese and other creatures and critters to celebrate the new season. Today I have provided you with 2 patterns, one for a stand-up paper duck, and one for a stand-up paper goose. Just print out the pattern, fold it in half, cut it out, and stand it up…it is as easy as that.

Make Spring Princess or Fairy Flowers Crown Craft for Girls - Want to pretend to be a Spring flower princess or fairy? Here are easy instructions to make yourself this beautiful crown that is made up of paper flowers. The simple steps to make this craft are given below.

Make May Basket with Flower Petals Paper Folding Craft - This May basket is meant to look like it is made out of flower petals. We have provided a printable paper folding template that you can print out, and then fold up, paste, and make a handle to finish it up.

Make Spring Handprints Lambs for Spring : Preschoolers and Kids Craft - Since I am so in love with little handprints, I enjoy doing crafts where I can capture my children’s handprints once again for posterity reason. This craft, handprint lamb, is a great way to capture a handprint but it also adds a touch of spring to your crafts and gives your child a new way to use his hands.

How to Make a Spring Easter Bonnet, Hat, or Flower Crown with Your Kids - A Spring bonnet is a longstanding tradition for little girls in many families – and calling it a flower crown will make any little boy excited to be the king of spring!

Spring Lily Arts and Crafts Project Here you will find an adorable Spring / Easter Lily craft idea for your kids. Not only is it super fun to create, but it will also become a Keepsake.

Baby Blue Birds to Make for Spring - - We made Baby Blue Birds, but you can make your baby birds any color you'd like. This is a cute and fun spring time craft for preschoolers on up!

Backyard Melody Maker Craft for Spring Play - - This interactive musical rod is simple to make and easy to use -- over and over again. Kids slide the washers to the top of the metal rod and release them. As the washers slowly cascade to the bottom, they make a beautiful metallic twinkling sound, similar to that of a rain stick. One 4-year-old tester declared it "the most awesome musical instrument I've ever played in my whole life!"

Basket Buddies Spring Activity - - This friendly mama owl and her baby bring a bit of cheer to your yard with their oversize basket bodies and bright faux-flower eyes.

Bloomin' Buttons Craft for Kids in Spring - - If spring has yet to blossom, your kids can create a preview of the season's colors by livening up your houseplants with vibrant button flowers.

Blossom Tree Painting Spring Activity for Kids - - Blossom trees are symbolic of Chinese New Year, celebrated in Japan, and welcomed in Spring in much of the world.

Bubble Necklace - - Instructions for making a necklace that is also a container that holds your bubble soap and wand.

Bunch of Daffodils - - Aren't these daffodils pretty? Welcome spring (or St David's Day) with this pretty bunch of handmade daffodils - an easy craft for kids of all ages.

Butterfly Clip Holder - - These decorated storage boxes make terrific party favors or party crafts!

Butterfly Handprint Painting to Make for Spring - - Encourage your children to let their imagination run riot with this colorful butterfly handprint painting..

Butterfly Wand for Spring - - This is a great craft to do at a children's party. Before the party, glue all the pipe cleaners to popsicle sticks. The children can do everything else themselves during the party.

Cards for Spring - Birthday Card - “Pink Tulip Card” - - You can create beautiful and easy cards for spring with paper napkins. The selection of motifs has something for every taste and with just a few steps, you can have original cards for just minimal cost.

Caterpillar Craft - - After running this craft by our quality assurance department (a.k.a. our toddler), we made two small modifications to our original design. In our original version below we had only eyes on the face and we had two pipe cleaner antennae on the craft. Our daughter informed us that the caterpillar didn't need the "sticks" (antennae) and that he needed "to be happy and have a nose" - it's comments like that which makes crafting with young children so much fun! Enjoy making this caterpillar craft for kids - it also makes a great spring craft for kids.

Coffee Filter Butterfly - - These beautifully vibrant butterflies are a great way to welcome spring! Suspend them from the ceiling with fishing line, or make several and attach to a paper plate mobile.

Coffee Filter Butterfly Clips - - This little butterfly would love to hang out in your room! Clip the butterfly to your ceiling fan pull string, or your curtains.

Colorful Bookmarker - - Kids can make this colorful bookmarker to make reading even more fun!

Creative with Roses and other flowers - - A rose is the queen of all flowers. Its beauty is beyond compare and the sweet smell of it is familiar to just about everyone. This page has 2 examples of creative ways to use roses. With the first project, we can smell the aroma long after the rose has wilted.

Daffodil Magnet Spring Arts and Crafts Project - - Here's a quick and easy modelling craft for children. This daffodil magnet is perfect for Spring, St David's Day or Easter.

Daisy Bookmark - - This pretty daisy bookmark is quickly and easily made with fingerprints by all ages of children - a perfect little gift for Mother's Day or any special occasion.

Daisy Picture - - Children can sew this pretty daisy picture to give as a gift (mount it and frame in a simple frame like ours) or use it on the front of a card for someone special, perhaps at Mother's Day.

Decorate A Paper Lantern - - This pretty craft is simple for the kids to do, but will take pride of place wherever it is displayed! Perfect for Spring or a Chinese New Year or Japan theme.

Driveway Signs to Make for Spring - - What you see is not all you get with these adorable driveway markers. By day, the plaques add color and a decorative touch to your yard. At night, the signs shine as beams of approaching headlights bounce off the reflective-tape moon and stars.

Easy Flower Power Bookmark - - Reading is a lot more fun with colorful bookmarks to save the pages! Kids will have fun creating these using different paper punchers and different colored papers. This marker is just one example of what they can do.

Egg Carton Wreath - - Save those egg cartons! This FreeKidsCraft.com original project is made from pink and yellow egg carton sections.

Eggshell or Egg Carton Tulips - - Make a bouquet of delicate eggshell tulips for Easter, using eggshells (or foam egg cartons sections) and pipe cleaners.

Fantasy Flower Shop - - Help sow the seeds of imagination with a playset that includes everything your tot needs to open her own shop. Your child can pretend to plant flowers or pick them, arrange them or sell them -- whatever keeps her busy until the real ones finally bloom.

Felt Daisy Plant Poke - - This is a fun rainy day project for kids. They can brighten up all of the green plants in your home or they can make this project as a mother’s day gift as well. Because the felt is so stiff, it is also easy for smaller hands to cut out.

Festive Felt Flower Napkin Ring - - Make a beautiful and easy napkin ring from felt - no sewing and no gluing! Just cut 3 pieces out and slip them together.

Filter Paper Bouquet - - Kids will enjoy making this filter paper bouquet for Mother's Day or Grandparent's Day - or perhaps to a favorite teacher! The colours are so pretty and perfect for Spring.

Flower Crown - - Make a pretty flowery crown from a paper plate and paper flowers. These are fun to make for Spring or Easter.

Flowered Easter Bonnet - - Pretty as can be! Make this hat to wear or use it as a centerpiece.

Flower Lollipop - - This Flower Lollipop is a great edible craft for kids. Make a whole bouquet and wrap them up as a gift!

Flower Magnets Craft - - Help your children create a garden of unique flowers with our flower magnets craft for kids. Use our template to cut out simple flower shapes and then let your children's creativity bloom as they decorate them. Attach magnets to the backs of their craft foam creations and you have a great homemade spring decoration to keep or to give as gifts!

Flower Power - - Spring is on its way! Jump-start the growing season with these cheery felt blossoms.

Foam Daffodil Craft - - We love it when our spring bulbs start blooming and daffodils are one of our favorite flowers, so we decided to create a daffodil flower craft to welcome spring this year. This kids flower craft is a simple craft with unusual materials, so it captured our daughter's interest immediately! Use our template to make this great kids craft even easier and welcome spring into your own home!

Foam Flower Magnets - - Easy to make from pre-cut foam pieces. Design your own or use our designs.

Folding Paper Butterfly Craft - - The folding paper butterfly craft is a classic preschool craft that kids always seem to love doing. Print and cut out our butterfly template, fold it in half and have your child paint a design - the goopier the better! Then just fold the unpainted side over the painted side and press together to create a perfectly symmetrical butterfly. This a great butterfly craft for kids and is also a great spring craft for kids.

Fowl Weather Umbrella Basket - - A springtime conundrum: How do you prevent the umbrella that kept you dry outdoors from getting everything indoors soaking wet? Let it drip dry into a special basket that you can empty out later. And when the long, dry days of summer roll in, this decorative bucket has an even duckier use: storing pool toys!

Garden Tiara - - Think spring and make a blooming tiara from a plastic visor. 

Greeting Card for Spring - ”Spring” - - This good mood card with its fresh spring colors is the perfect remedy after a long and dark winter.

Growing Flower - - This growing flower kids craft is a great way to celebrate spring time. This craft is made from a paper cup, straw, pipe cleaner, construction paper and tissue paper, an easy and inexpensive craft! Just move the straw up and down and watch your flower grow!

Handprint Butterfly Craft - - Our family is a huge fan of handprint crafts and we're getting pretty creative with what we can turn them into! This handprint butterfly craft for kids is our most recent spring craft that kids are sure to love. Let your children decorate their butterfly however they would like so that years later you'll have captured both the size of their little hands as well as a little snapshot of their creativity as well.

Handprint Daffodil - - Get messy with our handprint daffodil craft - perfect for St David's Day or Spring!

Handprint Paper Flowers Craft - - These lilies are made from a child's handprint (on paper) stapled to a straw. You can make an entire bouquet of flowers for a great gift or Spring decoration.

Hen Paper Decoration - - The hen is waiting patiently for all of her chicks to hatch! With parental or adult assistance, this is an easy and fun project for school aged children.  It only requires basic cutting and gluing skills.

Lady Bug Tea Light Holder - - This idea is a cute and inexpensive way to let your kids create a spring table decoration. It only requires paper, wiggly eyes, scissors and adhesive to make. This particular project uses a jumbo tea light so it is a larger size but you can also print out the pattern in a smaller size to fit a normal tea light.

Lasting Lilies - - Brighten your home with a touch of spring: a bouquet of easy-to-care-for paper lilies.

Lavender Scent Wand - - In the summer lavender plants cover the landscape in a blanket of purple and lilac flowers and its sweet scent is unforgettable. Create these scent wands and keep these in your clothes closets and drawers. Your wardrobe will be smelling summer fresh and lavender is perfect and natural way to repell moths as well.

Lollipop Flowers - - These Lollipop Flowers are fun kids craft for spring or anytime, make a whole bouquet and give it as a gift! These would also look great on top of a gift!

Make A Daffodil Badge - - In Wales it is traditional to wear a daffodil or leek on St David’s day, why not make our simple badge so you can wear yours. This is also a fun craft to celebrate the arrival of Spring!

Make these Flowers from Plastic Soda Bottles - - Try this idea from our easy plastic bottle crafts selection. It's just another good reason to start recycling. Enjoy!

Matching Spring Card and gift Tag - - Maricel's card is perfect for Mother's Day, birthdays, or any occasion with your own special message inside. The matching gift tag completes the package.

Mini Fence Spring Pins - Pin one to your backpack, give them as family gifts or make them for SWAPping.

Nature Prints - - Pound out natural pigments to make pretty floral- and leaf-patterned fabric.

Nature Wind Chime - - Gather some twigs, seeds, bark and pebbles and use them to decorate wind chimes.

Origami Butterfly - - This is a fun and creative summer paper craft project for children and will keep them busy for a little while if the weather is too hot to go outdoors or if it is rainy. Children can create a whole window full of butterflies to decorate their rooms or they can even make a butterfly mobile by hanging butterflies onto different lengths of string and hanging the strings then onto a stick or loop. It is also fun to experiment with the colors to create many unique looking butterflies.

Painted Wellies - - Get creative with our Painted Wellies! This is a lovely way to update old Wellingtons and would be a nice way to personalise ‘hand-me-downs’. The result is not permanent. Designs can be removed whenever you want with nail varnish remover or will chip off after about a month. Enjoy changing the design ... every month you can have a new pair of wellies!

Paper Bouquet of Spring Flowers - - This is a beautiful and creative way for kids to give flowers and is also so fun to do. And the great thing is... these flowers will not wilt away after a couple of days! If the kids would like, they could fill a clay pot with sand, place some moss or fake grass over the sand and insert the flowers in a decorative way. Then they can wrap a pretty matching ribbon around the pot and tie it into a bow. The mother’s will be so proud of their gift.

Paper Caterpiller - - This Paper Caterpiller is an easy way to make a 3D bug that can also bend when he crawls!

Paper Daffodils - - These Paper Daffodils are a fun Spring or Easter Craft for Preschoolers on up! You can even take it a step further and put a bunch in a clay pot for a homemade centerpiece!

Paper Flower Decorations - - These Paper Flower Decorations look great on their own or make a bunch and hang them for a colorful, unique spring decoration for the home or classroom!

Paper Plate Ladybug Craft - - Our paper plate ladybug craft for kids turns out really cute everytime. This little bug makes the perpect insect craft for toddlers or preschoolers as it has just enough steps that overlap to keep their interest (ie: while one plate dries you can start on the next step). It seems like a lot of steps, but it really goes together easily and our daughter really enjoyed this great kids craft - especially the black spots part!

Paper Tulip Hat - - Even Tiny Tim would slow down to make this tulip-topped crown.

Rainbow Paper Butterfly - - This colorful butterfly is really fun and easy to make as a room or window decoration. Because of the many hues in rainbow colored paper, no two butterflies will look alike. The butterfly is quite similar to the transparent butterfly.

Rainy Day Collage - - You don't need to make this Rainy Day Collage only on a rainy day, it's a great craft for spring time or when learning about the weather. A great craft for Preschoolers and kindergartners!

Recycled Magazine Flowers - - Make large, grand flowers from folded magazine pages. This is a FreeKidsCrafts.com original craft.

Sign of Spring - - Stake out your territory with this spiffy copper-foil garden sign.

Sparkling Sun Catcher - - A bit gray outside? No worries. Hung in a window, this bejeweled, dancing sun catcher will coax the sun back in no time.

Spring and Easter Inchies on Canvas - - This is a cheery way to decorate your wall and so much fun to make. Inchies are 1 x 1 inch squares and can be decorated according to theme, holiday, color or just about anyway you like. It is an absolutely good way to use up small scraps of paper, fabric, scrapbook embellishments or anything you have around. Once you have a collection of inchies, you can consider displaying them on a canvas such as the one in the picture below.

Spring Bouquet - - Jump-start the season by making your own colorful blooms with this flower-dyeing project.

Spring Kid Crafts - - The following selection of spring kid crafts provides parents, teachers and child care providers with a wealth of ideas!

Spring Bulbs - - This pretty springtime decoration will brighten up any May day -- or evening. All you'll need are a few simple craft materials, a string of indoor holiday lights, and a collection of clean and dry 20-ounce plastic soda bottles (one for each flower; we used Coca-Cola bottles).

Spring Craft for Kids - Fuse Bead Butterfly Window Decoration - - This butterfly seems to come to life when the sun shines on it. Kids love working with fuse beads and this colorful project is perfect for decorating the windows after a long and dreary winter. Kids are not limited to the suggested colors but can be creative and choose any combination they like.

Spring Flowers - - Once all the Easter eggs have been dyed, what can you do with those empty cartons? Let your kids recycle them into dozen of tulips and daffodils.

Spring Garden Centerpiece - - This centerpiece is anything but garden-variety.

Spring Greeting Card - Birthday Card - Green Flowers - - This fresh looking card will surely cheer up anyone with a spring birthday. It combines stamping and embossing and is finished within 30 minutes.

Spring Greeting Card - “Blue Rose” - - It is so easy to buy cards in any store. But some people are so special to us and we want to express our love or friendship to them in a more personal way. Handmade cards are a wonderful way to show these people how much we feel about them. This card uses a window paint motif for its main design.

Spring Greeting Card -“Butterflies” - - This is a card that is fresh and elegant for the spring months. If you have a Sizzix Sidekick diecutter and the butterfly motif, then you can create this card in no time. Otherwise, it is just as easy to cut out your own butterflies and follow the steps to complete the card. Combine pretty scrapbook papers and matching cardstock to create a card that fits your style.

Spring Greeting Card - “Tulip” - - An elegant and simple card to give on birthdays or other occasions.

Spring Greetings - - Show Mom how much you love her with a pot of flowers she won't have to water.

Spring No-Snow Globe - - Here's a twist on the traditional snow globe: fabric flowers, plastic figures, and a pinch of glitter in a recycled jar celebrate the coming of the warmer season.

Spring Picket Fence Photo Frame - - Use jumbo craft sticks to make a picket fence frame and decorate it for any season of the year.

Spring Picture Frame - - Use unfinished wood shapes to create your own personalized picture frame! Accented with a butterfly and flowers, this great kids craft frame would be a perfect craft for spring or even Easter. Show off a photo of your children in a beautiful frame that they made themselves!

Spring Umbrella - - Give your rainy-day umbrella a sunny new look with this reverse stenciling technique.

Stepping Stones - - Did you finish your Valentine's Day candy yet? Use the empty boxes to make heart-shaped stepping stones of all sizes.

Sunflower Pencils - - Make one or make a bunch! Pretty as they are practical.

Sunny Days & Rainy Days - - Spring is almost here and it brings sunny days and rainy days. Create the weather in your own world with this rotating picture.

Sunshine Flower Pot - - This bright and pretty flower pot is easy to make and is a perfect holder for our Fingerprint Flowers! You can plant a real flower in here too by adding some potting soil and a few seeds. Be sure to check out all of our spring and Easter crafts.

Table Top Wishing Well - - Make a pretty little wishing well as a gift for mom or just to bring in the spring! Thanks go to Sarah or West Palm Beach for this idea.

The Very Hairy Caterpillar - - This soddy creature makes a fun first-time gardening project while bringing a little bit of spring into your home.

Tissue Paper Butterfly Craft - - The tissue paper butterfly craft is a very simple craft and it's easy to make a bunch of butterflies at one time. Putting a few of these butterflies together into a mobile would be a fantastic spring craft or butterfly craft for kids! Let your kids decorate these butterflies with markers or sequins to enhance this great kids craft.

Tissue Paper Rainbow Craft - - When finished, this tissue paper rainbow craft makes a fantastic, child-friendly stained glass-like decoration for your home. We found this "stained glass" technique trying to create crafts to do with our young daughter, but this rainbow ends up pretty enough for even an older child to do. We've included a template to make this craft even easier to put together. This colorful kids craft is the perfect decoration for your home, addition to a lesson on colors (ROY.G.BIV) or rain, or a fun way to welcome in the spring season. Enjoy!

TP Sunflowers - - Make pretty flowers from empty paper towel rolls.

Tulip Magnet - - Kids can make this pretty magnet for a Mother's Day gift or just to cheer up the house during Spring!

Umbrella Wrapped Utensils - - Dress your spring table with these adorable Umbrella Wrapped Utensils. A very easy craft for spring time!

Wind Chime Plastic Canvas Spinner - Welcome in Spring with a musical plastic canvas spinner.

Wind Socks - - Catch Spring's cool breezes with a homemade wind sock.

Wind and Sun Catchers - - Here comes spring! Make a wind chime that also catches and reflects the sun.

Winged Wonders - - What makes these fluttery butterflies so vibrant? Magazine photos!

Wrapper Flowers Craft - - Our daughter loves to play with cupcake wrappers - we're not exactly sure why, but it makes her happy! One day she was lining a bunch of them up and this wrapper flower craft was born. We used fancy mini muffin cup papers in the craft pictured below because they were what we had in the house, but any kind of wrapper will work perfectly. Use different sizes and colors to add some variety to your wrapper garden and have fun with the great flower craft for kids!

Yarn Rainbow - - Now matter how rainy the day you can make the sun come out with your own rainbow.

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