25+ Fun & Easy Spring Animal Crafts for Kids
Butterflies and bunnies and chicks, oh my! If you’re looking for fun and easy spring animal crafts for kids, you are in the right place. I’m writing this post in the dead of winter, but combing through this list of amazing spring crafts has the sun shining and birds singing in my mind!
I’ve organized this list of adorable spring animal crafts into two categories: butterfly and insect crafts, and farm and forest animal crafts. And whether you’re looking to use everyday items like coffee filters and egg cartons or printable templates and paint, this list has something for everyone!
Butterfly and Insect Crafts
Siobhán from Mimosas and Motherhood teaches us how to create colorful butterflies by painting coffee filters with watercolors and attaching pipe cleaner bodies.
Amy from Rock Your Homeschool shares a fun way to make a cheerful caterpillar using simple paper chain links in bright colors.
Easy Foldable Creations guides you through folding beautiful origami butterflies perfect for spring decorations.
Stacey from The Soccer Mom Blog provides a creative way to turn handprints into an adorable caterpillar design.
Here, Jessica from The Keele Deal demonstrates how to turn traced handprints into colorful butterfly wings.
Nature Butterfly Craft with Free Printable
The Keele Deal is back, and this time Jessica provides a free printable to create nature-inspired butterflies with leaves and petals.
Shana from Nifty Thrifty DIYer shares how to make a wiggly caterpillar with simple materials.
Anna from In the Playroom offers a fun way to craft a ladybug using a paper plate and a free printable.
Heart Made Holidays provides instructions for creating a movable ladybug using paper and simple folding techniques.
Here’s another cute craft from Heart Made Holidays, which guides kids through designing colorful dragonflies with a free printable template.
The Printables Fairy teaches kids how to create bug-shaped suncatchers with colorful paints and black glue.
Darcy from Simply Full of Delight teaches us a fun fold-and-press method for painting symmetrical butterflies.
Deanna from Honey and Lime shares how to transform coffee filters into colorful butterflies using markers and a water-spray technique, perfect for a simple spring craft.
Farm and Forest Animal Crafts
Learn how to fold paper into a sleek and simple origami fox with step-by-step instructions from Easy Foldable Creations.
Sam from Simple Everyday Mom shows how to transform your child’s handprint into a cute duck with paint and construction paper.
The Simple Everyday Mom provides a printable to create a colorful frog-themed headband.
Here, Amy from Rock Your Homeschool helps kids turn a toilet paper roll into an adorable frog with paint and paper details.
Here, Sam from Simple Everyday Mom shares a fun craft using paper and a free printable template to make a chick hatching from an egg.
Joy from In the Bag Kids’ Crafts shows how to make a simple bunny using colorful construction paper.
DIY Family Time shares a creative way to repurpose egg cartons into playful bunnies with paint and embellishments.
Jessica from The Keele Deal teaches how to decorate plastic spoons into charming bunny characters.
DIY and Fun shows how to recycle yogurt cups into adorable cow characters with paint and paper.
Jen from Princess Pinky Girl demonstrates how to make a sweet bunny using handprints and construction paper.
DIY Family Time offers a heartfelt farm animal handprint craft perfect for Mother’s Day.
Mommy Evolution provides a guide for recycling milk jugs into playful bunny designs.
Mama of Minis shares how to make an adorable bird’s nest craft with natural materials.
Get Crafty This Spring!
I hope these sweet spring animal crafts bring joy and creativity to your home. They’re a wonderful way to spend quality time with your kids, explore the magic of spring, and create keepsakes to cherish for years to come!
Looking for more fun craft ideas? Be sure to check out this cute and easy mermaid craft, this fun paper plate ocean craft, and this super easy shark craft for kids!
Which craft will you try first? Let me know in the comments, and don’t forget to share your masterpieces with me over on Instagram!
