Daffodils
Supplies: Yellow Crepe Paper, Yellow Cupcake Papers, Green Pipe Cleaners
Roll up a little ball on one end of the pipe cleaner so that when you stick it through the 
flower it won't just fall out. First cut the shape of the "back" of the daffodil...
or approximately anyway. Put a small hole in the center for the pipe cleaner. Cut the 
cupcake paper in half. Roll it till you can glue the pleated edges together, making the part 
of the flower that sticks out in front. (Looks like a trumpet) Make a hole 
 and put the pipe cleaner through both parts of the flower; glue the "trumpet" 
onto the back of the flower. 

Bird's Nest
Supplies: Construction, Paper, Glue, Cardboard, Yarn, Markers
Use scissors to cut the shapes of birds eggs from construction paper. Glue the eggs 
onto cardboard. Glue short strands of yarn under the eggs for a nest allow them to
 dry completely. Use markers to draw tree branches around the nest and speckles on the
 eggs. Draw leaves or use real ones, or felt to make leaves on the branches. 
Variations: Wash and dry pieces or real eggshells. Glue them on top of the yard nests. 
Talk about the kinds of birds that live in your area. Compare their sizes, shapes, and colors. 
Take a walk and look for nests in trees. Talk about the materials that birds use to build 
nests and how high or low the nests are in the trees.

Spring Butterflies
Supplies: Food Coloring, Coffee,  Filters, Eye Dropper or Straws, 
Wooden Clothes Pin, Pipe Cleaner
Color small bowls of water with food coloring Using an eye dropper or a straw, scatter drops 
of colored water onto round coffee filters and watch the colors bleed and blend. While 
the filters dry, draw eyes and body details on wooden clothespins. Gather each coffee filter 
up in the center and clip with the clothespin. Make antennae for each butterfly by inserting
 a pipe cleaner into the end of the clothespin and twisting it secure. Bend the ends of the
 pipe cleaner to make it look realistic. You can use tissue paper instead of coffee filters 
for a multi-layered effect. Decorate with sequins and buttons.


Spring Flowers
Supplies: Construction Paper, Scissors, Glue
Trace around 1 hand on yellow paper, and trace around 1 hand on red paper. Cut them out;
 these will be the flowers. Cut out a long & short stem out of green paper. Cut out four
 leaves out of green paper. Glue the cut out hands on the stems on brown paper, add leaves.


Wind Socks
Supplies: Paper Lunch Bag, Construction Paper, Crepe Paper, Scissors, Glue,
Misc. Craft Supplies
 To make a windsock, cut off the bottom of a paper lunch bag. Decorate the bag with
glitter paint, neon construction paper, stickers, etc. Then attach crepe paper streamers to
 one end of the bag. Attach a construction paper handle to the opposite end of the bag.


To make a duck or swan using handprints, paint palm, fingers, thumb using yellow (duck) 
or white (swan).  Press on paper w/ fingers together (body) thumb up (head). 
 Draw beak and dip end of pinky finger in black for eye.


Coffee Filter Flowers 
Have students color the coffee filter using springtime colors. Place the filters on newspaper 
and spray gently  with water from a spray bottle which will make the colors run. 
When dry, gather in the center and use a green pipe cleaner to form a stem. 
Fluff open.  Make a couple of leaf shapes and place a hole in them with a hole punch. 
Thread the leaves onto the stem. 


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