Creative Spring Resources
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Blossoming Green Spring!
Can you think of the better green period of the year than spring? Time when nature itself is going green, breaking coldness and darkness of the winter!
There are so many ways to celebrate nature's renewal that happens every spring season! Let's contribute to a new life of the nature by reusing many ordinary household items people usually throw into trash!
On this page you'll find many suggestions for craft projects for kids to do at home with their parents but also for teachers for school art class.
Let's make spring green even greener!
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- Reusing Popsicle Sticks for Birdhouses, Picture Frames...
- Flowers, Bugs and Wreaths from Used Egg Carton
- Transfering Paper Plates into Animals, Flowers...
- Simple Crafts for Reused Paper Rolls
- Reusing Plastic Bottles & Containers for Crafts
- Gardens and Pots Made from Glass Jars & Tin Cans
- You Can Reuse Eggshells!
- Many Other Items Can Be Reused for Craft projects...
- It's Fun to Wait for Spring to Come!
A Child of Spring
by Ellen Robena Field
I know a little maiden,
She is very fair and sweet,
As she trips among the grasses
That kiss her dainty feet;
Her arms are full of flowers,
The snow-drops, pure and white,
Timid blue-eyed violets,
And daffodillies bright.
She loves dear Mother Nature,
And wanders by her side;
She beckons to the birdlings
That flock from far and wide.
She wakes the baby brooklets,
Soft breezes hear her call;
She tells the little children
The sweetest tales of all.
Her brow is sometimes clouded,
And she sighs with gentle grace,
Till the sunbeams, daring lovers,
Kiss the teardrops from her face.
Well we know this dainty maiden,
For April is her name;
And we welcome her with gladness,
As the springtime comes again.
The Green Year Guide
365 Small Things You Can Do to Make a Big Difference
The Green Year: 365 Small Things You Can Do to Make a Big Difference
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Most of us want to do the right thing for the environment, but making the commitment to change our fast-paced, convenience-oriented lifestyles can be more than a little daunting. What's the answer? Take that giant commitment and cut it up into 365 little commitments that get met one day at a time. The Green Year does just that. More than a calendar, it offers simple, practical, affordable, and engaging activities that make going green a blessing rather than a burden.
Reusing Popsicle Sticks for Birdhouses, Picture Frames...
... and some other creative crafts
- Butterfly Wand - Enchanted Learning Software
- Make a butterfly wand with things found around the house.
- Craft Stick Sunflower Picture Frame
- craft Stick Sunflower Picture Frame
- Fun Kids Spring Crafts - Craft Stick Birdhouse Craft Kit
- Make this fun Craft Stick Birdhouse Craft Kit- Spring craft ideas for kids. Spend quality time with your children making these fun Spring crafts.
- Picket Fence Photo Frame
- Spring Picket Fence
- Fun Kids Spring Crafts - Welcome Sign Craft Kit
- Make this fun Welcome Sign Craft Kit- Spring craft ideas for kids. Spend quality time with your children making these fun Spring crafts.
- Yarn Butterflies Spring Craft
- GummyLump.com Blog: Kids Crafts Project #70
When you eat ice cream, use sticks to make:
Flowers, Bugs and Wreaths from Used Egg Carton
Simple crafts for kids, parents and teachers
- Egg Carton Ant Craft
- instructions and picture of an egg carton ant craft
- Free Kids Crafts - Egg Carton Wreath
- Free kids craft ideas including free printables, holiday crafts, coloring pages and more!
- Egg Carton Caterpillar Craft
- instructions and photo of an egg carton caterpillar craft
- Daffodil Egg Carton Craft
- Free, printable educational activities for preschool, kindergarten and grade school children.
- Child Flower Craft
- For an easy child flower craft, use egg cartons to fashion spring bouquets.
- Egg Carton Caterpillar
- For this easy egg carton caterpillar craft all you need is an egg carton, scissors, pipecleaner (or other material for the antennas), and your child's imagination.
- Hello Spring with Egg Carton Flowers
- Pink Ink Doodle: {TUTORIAL THURSDAY}
Few more ideas how to reuse egg cartons
Transfering Paper Plates into Animals, Flowers...
... and few other crafts
- Paper Plate Flower Wreath
- Printable templates for a paper plate wreath craft suitable for preschool, kindergarten and gradeschool kids.
- Flower Paper Plate Craft
- Santa Claus christmas doorknob hanger that children can make.
- Flower Paper Plate Craft - EnchantedLearning.com
- Flower Paper Plate Craft for kids. Kindergarten, preschool, and elementary school crafts. Make wonderful, simple crafts with things found around the house.
- Flower Crown - KinderCrafts
- Flower Crown: Make a pretty, flowery crown from a paper plate and paper flowers.
- Duck Paper Plate Craft - EnchantedLearning.com
- Duck Paper Plate Craft for kids. Kindergarten, preschool, and elementary school crafts. Make wonderful, simple animal crafts with things found around the house.
- May Day Baskets
- May Day Baskets
- Paper Plate Ladybug Craft for Kids
- Paper plate ladybug craft for kids. Turn a few paper plates into a paper plate ladybug craft for kids! Our ladybug craft makes a great spring craft for kids as well as a great insect craft. With a little paint your kids can create their own ladybug.
- Spring Paper Plate Decoration
- Spring Paper Plate Decoration
- Paper Bowl Ladybug Shaker Craft
- Even the littlest hands can help. Not to mention SHAKE it.
- A Little Learning For Two: Rainbow Fan
- very bright and colourful, as well as useful!
- Crafty Hair: Paperplate Butterflies
- very spring like butterflies
- Bird Nest Paper Plate Craft
- Arts and Crafts for Tots
Resource for even more paper plate crafts
Simple Crafts for Reused Paper Rolls
Make a new use for toilet paper rolls!
- DLTK's Bumblebee Craft for Kids
- Bumblebee
- Butterfly Craft
- Butterfly Craft
- DLTK's Valentine's Day Butterfly Craft for Kids
- printable templates for a children's st valentine's day butterfly toilet paper roll craft.
- Toilet Paper Roll Caterpillar
- Free printable instructions and photographs for making a caterpillar craft.
- TP Sunflowers
- Make pretty flowers from empty paper towel rolls.
- TP Roll Bee
- This TP Roll Bee is a easy and inexpensive craft for kids. Punch a hole in the top of the TP roll and tie on a string to fly your bee around the backyard!
- colorful flowers and butterflies
- Inspiration Surrounds... Creativity Abounds: Upcycling The Humble Toilet Roll
- Twig and Toadstool: It's Flower Power Week!!!
- Let's Make a Recycled Rainbow Flower Wreath!
- House of Baby Piranha: Toilet Paper Roll Birds
- use toilet paper rolls to make 2 cute birds.
- Toilet Paper Roll Flower
- Craft From Recycled Materials
Wondering what can be done with paper rolls? Check this:
Reusing Plastic Bottles & Containers for Crafts
Reuse before recycling!
- Recycled May Basket
- Recycled May Basket - Kaboose.com
- Terrarium
- Terrarium - Kaboose.com
- Plastic Jug Watering Can Craft
- Plastic Jug Watering Can Craft: Earth Day Crafts for Kids - Recycling Craft Ideas -
- Plastic Bottle Crafts
- We show you how to use plastic bottle crafts to fashion spring flowers. Make a flower craft bouquet with your kids!
Few more ideas to reuse soda bottles
Gardens and Pots Made from Glass Jars & Tin Cans
Simple and effective crafts
- Baby Food Jar Garden
- Baby Food Jar Garden - Kaboose.com
- Fun Kids Spring Crafts - My Bug Jar Craft Kit
- Make this fun My Bug Jar Craft Kit- Spring craft ideas for kids. Spend quality time with your children making these fun Spring crafts.
- Tin Can Herb Pots
- Tin Can Herb Pots - Kaboose.com
Other ways of reusing glass jars and soda cans
You Can Reuse Eggshells!
Here are few ideas:
- Eggshell Plant Pots - Enchanted Learning Software
- Make tiny plant pots from eggshells.
- Eggshell Tulips - Enchanted Learning Software
- Make delicate tulips from eggshells and pipe cleaners.
Reusing eggshells?! Here is more:
Many Other Items Can Be Reused for Craft projects...
... puzzles, clothespines, milk carton, newspaper, cardboard box, paper cups
- Personalized Easter Basket Craft
- Make a personalized Easter basket this holiday season for your favorite kid. Kid holiday crafts make every day a holiday.
- Free Kids Crafts - Recycled Magazine Flowers
- Free kids craft ideas including free printables, holiday crafts, coloring pages and more!
- Puzzle Piece Butterfly
- PuzzlePiece Butterflies
- Table Top Wishing Well
- Make a pretty little wishing well as a gift for mom or just to bring in the spring!
- DLTK's Muffin Flower Craft for Kids
- Printable template for a simple muffin cup flower craft.
- DLTK's Muffin Flower Pot Craft for Kids
- Printable template for a simple muffin cup flower craft.
- Spring Bunny Wreath
- Printable templates for children's holiday crafts and activities for preschool, kindergarten and elementary school kids.
- MaryJanes and Galoshes: Butterfly Wreath- Think Spring!
- diy paper bag spring wreath
- Mama Jenn: Brown Bag Bird Nest
- you will need a brown paper lunch bag in addition to whatever you find in nature
Few more items you can also reuse:
More About Holiday Crafts
Books full of ideas!
On the 22nd of April, 1970, Earth Day marks the beginning of the modern environmental movement. Among other things, 1970 in the United States brought with it the Kent State shootings, the advent of fiber optics, "Bridge over Troubled Water," Apollo 13, the Beatles' last album, the death of Jimi Hendrix, and the meltdown of fuel rods in the Savannah River nuclear plant near Aiken, SC. Americans of the era consumed leaded gas in massive V8s. Heavy industry released smoke and sludge. Air pollution was commonly accepted as the smell of prosperity. The 1970 Earth Day helped to change many peoples' minds.
Countdown to Earth's Day
Love the Planet Cookies

Give or enjoy cookies with a message about the fragility of the planet and a most-delicious taste. We discovered a small bakery with a big mission: make USDA Certified Organic cookies that taste delectable, look incredible and do their part to preserve the planet. In every reusable tin you'll find 24 biscuit-crisp sugar cookies cut in symbol and animal shapes to remind us to celebrate the earth. Each is finely detailed with royal icing.
* Organic Certified
* Exclusive
* 24 sugar cookies with royal icing
* Recyclable and reusable gift tin
Certified Organic by Quality Assurance International and produced with the least environmental impact, your cookie tin is shipped with care. All growers and handlers must meet rigorous performance criteria in the following areas before being awarded the Organic certification:
* sustainable farming techniques
* prohibits the use of toxic and persistent chemicals
* ecosystem protection
* conserve biodiversity
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Ingredients: organic flour, organic butter, organic sugar, organic eggs, organic vanilla, organic cocoa, organic egg white powder, water, baking powder, baking soda, assorted natural food colors.
It's Fun to Wait for Spring to Come!
Wouldn't you agree? :)
Have you found something interesting?
Do you have some other idea about making spring crafts from reused items? Share it with the rest of the world! Every new idea is welcome!
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achraf Jun 1, 2011 @ 7:46 am | delete
- very good lens! thanks a lot.
Advice: maybe you can make some videos explaining how to make execute some of these creations; that will definitely make this lens even better.
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AdrianaCopaceanu
May 16, 2011 @ 10:56 am | delete
- Lots of great ideas! thanks for keeping them all "under one roof"!
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annmackiemiller
Apr 22, 2011 @ 7:44 am | delete
- what a lovely set of resources - well deserves an Angel blessing on Earth Day - featured on Angel Blessed in April
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JJNW
Apr 22, 2011 @ 2:01 am | delete
- Happy Earth Day!!
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ShirleySunshine
Mar 29, 2011 @ 4:07 pm | delete
- Wonderful Lens, Lesnrolled to my Spring Delights from Zazzle Lens.
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bethd821 Mar 13, 2011 @ 7:48 am | delete
- Wonderful crafting ideas and ways to recycle! Great job! Blessed!
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daria369
Jan 24, 2011 @ 8:55 am | delete
- Spring is my favorite time of the year and this is a great resource lens! :)
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kimmanleyort
Mar 9, 2010 @ 7:44 am | delete
- Beautiful lens, Michelle. I love the color scheme. I see that you have everything organized under Creative Resources. Very nice.
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oztoo
Mar 8, 2010 @ 3:55 pm | delete
- Love the spring theme and wow what an excellent range of ideas and rescources.
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shops
Mar 8, 2010 @ 3:36 pm | delete
- Wow! Great Site! Just noticed you added a few of my designs...thanks so much!
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