by Talina Norris

Created on: April 05, 2007   Last Updated: September 29, 2011

Spring is a wonderful time of year because it symbolizes rebirth and new beginnings. Plants are springing back to life after the long, harsh winter and people begin to venture out to enjoy outdoor activities. Springtime is also the perfect time to renew or strengthen bonds with loved ones!

Families with small children who are looking to bond and enjoy each other's company can try doing some festive spring crafts together. Crafts are a great way to nurture your child's creative/ imaginative side and they bring people together. What is better than an afternoon of crafts with the whole family?

I have compiled a number of craft projects like muffin cup flowers, a chenille butterfly mobile, a flowery spring lamp, wind chimes, a kite and much more! Try a few of these spring time crafts this weekend with your children and watch your bond strengthen!

Muffin Cup Flowers
These muffin cup flowers are great to hang on a wall or door for pretty spring decorations! This is also a fairly easy craft to do!

Materials:
A printer or you can draw your own stem and leaves, glue, scissors, a piece of construction paper, two muffin cups, something the color with (paint, crayons, markers, etc)

Directions:
- Color the two muffin cups various colors (they will be the flower head). You might want to make the centers yellow and the outsides a rainbow of flower colors... be creative! This step should be first, especially if using paint, so it has a chance to dry while you're doing the other steps. When finished set these aside to dry.
-Draw or cut the flower stem, you can use brown construction paper for the stem and then you can cut leaves from some green construction paper and glue them to the stem.
- Once you have glued the stem and leaves together Glue the two muffin cups onto the top of the stem (one on top of the other) to form the flower. Flatten out the bottom cup a bit more than the top cup so you can see the petals. You can use more than two cups if you want... the more cups you use, the more petals your flower will have.
- You can decorate the paper further by coloring in grass, sky and clouds. Also, you can use balled up pieces of green tissue paper as grass and cotton balls as clouds or you can decorate the paper further by drawing a flowerpot under the flower. Try coloring the muffin cups with pastels, the stem and leaves with regular crayons and the sky with watercolor paints. Or just put out a variety of mediums and let your kids pick which to use.

Chenille Butterfly Mobile

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