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Spring Crafts

Your grade-schooler will love making these great spring-inspired crafts for kids

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There’s something about springtime that inspires one to create fun and colorful creations out of spring crafts ideas. (Maybe it’s all that renewal and rebirth going on around us that stokes the creative soul.) Whether you’re enjoying some downtime during spring vacation or are looking for fun spring crafts to do with your kids on a weekend, check out these spring crafts ideas for inspiration and instructions. Happy spring!

1. Great Spring Crafts to Do with Kids

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You’ll find everything from spring crafts ideas on how to make personalized garden stepping stones to rainy day crafts from About.com’s Family Crafts Guide. There are lots of different spring crafts projects for grade-schoolers to choose from, whether your child is interested in birds, bugs, the environment, gardening or baseball. Just choose a project -- or several -- and get creative together!

2. Decorate Easter Eggs

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Creating beautiful and adorable Easter eggs is often one of the top items on kids’ lists of favorite spring crafts. Here’s everything you’ll need to make beautiful Easter eggs with your kids, from tips on how to boil the perfect egg to how to make adorable creatures using Easter eggs.

3. Fun, Colorful Spring Crafts for Kids

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The colorful spring-themed creatures you can create with these spring crafts ideas from Family Fun are nothing short of adorable. You and your child can make lovely ladybugs, brightly-colored foam caterpillars, clever hand-print lilies, and ethereal tissue-paper blossoms without too much effort or time -- perfect spring craft ideas for grade-school age kids.

4. More Spring-Inspired Ideas for Kids’ Spring Crafts

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You and your grade-schooler will love making these cute spring crafts ideas for ladybug rocks, paper fingerprint flowers, and other spring-inspired creations from Kaboose.

5. Easter and Spring Crafts

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Learn how to make gorgeous paper flowers, beautiful as well as whimsical Easter eggs, colorful flowers made out of yarn, and other great spring craft projects for kids from Martha Stewart.

6. Fun Spring Crafts to Make and Enjoy

Butterflies, pinwheels, and sun mobiles are just some of the fun spring crafts for kids by Family Education. These spring crafts ideas are as easy as they are fun to do, so even younger grade-schoolers will be able to make -- and take pride in -- their colorful creations.

7. Easter Coloring Pages

Here are some adorable Easter coloring pages from About.com’s Guide to Family Crafts. Your younger grade-schooler will love creating beautiful pictures with Easter themes such as a bunny sleeping in an Easter basket and chicks with an Easter egg. Best of all, these printable Easter coloring pages are free!

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