8 Spring Craft Ideas for Kids

As the snow melts and winter turns to spring. Its time to spruce up the house a bit with some colorful crafts for children.

Hand Painted Flower Pots.

Flower plants are a fun way to make a house look brighter, and what better way to dress up flowers then a unique pot that your children made.
To start you will need Terra Cotta pots, as many as you want to paint. For a pretty little African Violet flowering plant, a 4-6 inch pot works very well. You will also need Acrylic paint and a finishing spray. Set up somewhere well ventilated, placing newspapers over anything that you don't want to get painted and have children wear old clothes that you don't mind getting messy. Put some paints into small containers and lay out an array of brushes. I like to use one brush for every pot of paint, that way you don't need to clean the brushes. Then let your children go to work. However the pots end up they will be beautiful. Another idea is dip children's hands in paint and put their hand prints on the pot, then pen in their names and ages when finished. After the paints dry, spray the pot with an clear Acrylic paint to seal in the colors. This helps prevent them from fading over time. At this point you can plant your flowers or you can let kids decorate the pots with craft pieces such as ribbons, bows, buttons, beads, sequence and yarn to name a few ideas. Or you can just have them glue craft pieces to their pots instead of painting.