by Pamela Kay

Created on: March 09, 2009

Pre-schoolers love anything to do with crafting but the best spring craft projects for pre-schoolers are those, which are not too complicated and don't take forever to create. This article contains ten easy and fun crafts designed with the pre-schoolers in mind, so why not allow your child to create several of them.

*Easter Egg Pots

Remove the top quarter of an egg and wash out the shell. Allow the child to decorate the outside with paint, stickers, glitter or pictures. When dry, have them add potting soil and plant a seed in the egg pot. Glue a one-inch wide strip of paper into a small circle to hold the egg.

*Spring Lambs

Draw a simple outline of a lamb on heavy card stock and allow the child to cut it out. Give them a saucer with a little glue in it and a pile of mini cotton balls. Have the child dip the cotton ball in the glue and stick it on the lamb cutout. Have them make a whole flock and glue a bent square of cardboard on the back to make them stand up.

*Bumble Bee Mobile

Have the child draw five bees on yellow card stock. Cut them out and draw eyes and stripes with a black marker, do the stripes on both sides. Cut wings from wax paper to fit each bee and glue them on.

Making the mobile hanger requires two paint sticks crossed and glued together. Screw a hook into the exact center of the paint sticks where they cross.

Thread a needle with fishing line and tie a large knot in the end. Have the child thread the needle through the middle of the bees from the bottom and tie or hot glue the other end to each point and the center of a hanger.

*Wheelbarrow Planter

Glue the lids from gallon milk jugs near the handle end on each side of a plastic laundry detergent scoop. Give the child potting soil and grass seeds to plant in the little wheelbarrow planter. When the grass has grown, add a few mini jellybeans for a cool Easter craft.

*Pussy Willow Picture

On a sheet of sturdy construction paper, have the child draw several stems with a brown marker. Give them a saucer with a small amount of glue and some puffed rice cereal. Have them dip one side of each cereal piece into the glue and place it on the drawn stems to form pussy willows.

*Smashed Flower Pictures

Have the child gather some Spring flowers and blades of grass and arrange them on a white sheet of construction paper, using the blades of grass as the flower stems. Cover the project with Saran wrap and tape to the worktable. Now, give the child a hammer and have them hammer where the flowers and grass are. The colors

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