This is a recycling and a Mother’s Day Present Arts and Crafts Activity for Kids to Make. Recycling can be your way of taking care of the environment. Here’s a great craft activity that makes it really fun to recycle. Make a flower vase out of an old plastic bottle and then put fresh flowers in it for Your Mom. The simple step by step illustrated instructions follow.

How to Make Flower Vases With Recycled Plastic Bottles Gift for Mom on Mother’s Day

Craft Materials Needed

Plastic bottle

White paper

acrylic glitter glue

scissors

glue

pencil

Step 1

With the help of an adult cut off the top of the bottle

Step 2

Cut a piece of paper wider than the circumference of the bottle and slightly longer than the length of the bottle

Step 3

Roll the paper around the bottle and glue it in place.

Step 4

Draw a design on the outside of the bottle

Step 5

Go over the design with acrylic glue. Allow to dry. Put some flowers in the vase and surprise mum!!

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This Easter 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. It is pretty and can be used as a decorative table piece or to place flowers or candy in. This is a great craft for boys or girls to celebrate Easter, as well as the April and May season. Have fun.

Make Easter Basket with Flower Petals Paper Folding Craft

Although this craft can be printed on plain office paper, it would be better to print it out on card stock. If you don’t have card stock available…it would be great if you could print it out on cardboard, such as the type that a cereal box is made from.

Cut on the heavy lines, and fold on the dotted lines of hexagon.  Put the paste on each side of flower petal from the edge to dotted line and lap outside of the next leaf. Do this until all leaves are pasted. Punch a hole on each side of the basket where 2 petals overlap each other, as shown in diagram. Get a piece of string, raffia, pipe cleaner, etc, and then tie an end through each hold. Try to curl each flower petal over a bit, as shown in finished picture.

Click on Image to Open New Screen and Print Out Template

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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.

How to Fold a Standing Paper Goose and Duck with Paper Arts Instructions

Stand-up Paper Duck Pattern

Print the pattern (BELOW). Fold the page in half and cut out the duck shape. Then you will have a duck shape as seen on the picture above (LEFT). Fold the neck as seen in the picture above and the fold the wings in a bit so that the duck is standing.

Click on This Pattern to Open up a New Page to Print Out

Stand-up Paper Goose Pattern

Print the pattern (BELOW). Fold the page in half and cut out the goose shape. Then you will have a goose shape as seen on the picture above (LEFT). Fold the neck as seen in the picture above and the fold the wings up so that the goose is standing on its own.

Click on This Pattern to Open up a New Page to Print Out

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Peter Rabbit is a fictional character in various children’s stories by Beatrix Potter. He is a well-known, loved character that usually comes out in schools around the country during Spring and Easter-time. Below you will find 2 pages to print out of Peter Rabbit story characters and items such as a picnic basket, umbrella, etc. These are all paper-folding dolls that you can play with like toys for Easter time or after you have heard this great story. Have a great time.

Click Here for PDF File to Print Out Peter Rabbit Coloring Pages / and Play Stand Up Toys / Dolls

OR

Click on the 2 Pictures Below and Print Them Out Instead

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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 Spring Princess or Fairy Flowers Crown Craft for Girls

Craft materials required:

Thick chart paper

Coloured paper- different colors.

Green crepe paper

Glue

Scissors

Step 1

Cut a strip of chart paper about 4 inches wide and long enough to go around your head

.

Step 2

Glue the ends together to form a crown.

Step 3

Cut out grass shapes out of crepe paper as shown.

Step 4

Cut out flowers in different shapes and colors.

Step 5

Cut out leaves of different shapes.

Step 6

Cut out small circles for the centres of the flowers.

Step 7

Glue the grass on the crown.

Glue the flowers and the circles in the centres of the flowers.

Step 8

Glue leaves between the flowers.

Your crown is completed. Put it on your head, and pretend to be a Spring Queen.

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Make Spring Handprints Lambs for Easter or Spring : Preschoolers and Kids Craft

One thing that I have always loved as a parent is handprints.  There have been days where I have winced at having to wash them from the walls, partly because they are there and partly because I am taking them off, but I always seem to lovingly place my own hand over top of them as though I might remember them through touch.  It has been this way ever since my children were babies.  The first thing I did was count all the little fingers on their small hands and since that day I have continued to count them over and over again.  Of course, I need to do it discreetly now so I’m not “bothering” my children.

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.

Gather all the materials you need:

• Brown, White or Black Construction Paper (Or if you want to create a colorful lamb, use any brightly colored construction paper.)
• Black Marker
• Cotton Balls
• Your Child’s Hand
• White Glue

Step 1

1.  Have your child place his hand on the construction paper and either help him or have him trace it out onto the paper.

Step 2

2.  Cut out the handprint.  For older children, this is an excellent activity to build up their cutting skills.

Step 3

3.  Flip the hand over so the fingers are facing down.  The fingers are the legs of the lamb and the thumb is the head so make sure that the hand is spread out when you do trace it.

Step 4

4.  Cover the palm of the hand, and part of the legs with white glue.

Step 5

5.  Pull the cotton ball so it becomes billowy, like soft wool or a fluffy cloud.

Step 6

6.  Place it onto the white glue so it covers the lamb’s “body.” Make sure to leave the legs and head uncovered.

Step 7

7.  Draw little feet onto the bottom of the fingers with the black marker.

Step 8

8.  Draw a face onto the head (the thumb) of your lamb with the black marker.

Once your lamb is finished, you can either hang it up as is, or you can paste it to a sheet of construction paper and then add green for grass, white construction paper (or cotton balls) for clouds and anything else that you would like to decorate it with.

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