These easy spring crafts for toddlers are all about keeping things simple, seasonal and stress-free.
No mountains of glitter!
No sticky white glue getting everywhere!
Just fun, low-prep creative activities and simple crafts that little ones will actually enjoy.
I’ve pulled together the best minimal-mess ideas from across a few of our existing posts — including these cute bunny crafts, toddler-friendly Easter Crafts and these simple Easter crafts for preschool — and adapted them into spring-themed makes that’ll work well beyond Easter.
Super Simple Spring Flower Crafts
Spring is all about blooms, bright colors, and noticing the little changes happening outside. These minimal prep, minimal mess flower crafts are simple, cheerful, and perfect for talking about how plants grow in spring.
Construction Paper Tulip Craft
Tulips are one of the first flowers we see in spring, which makes this a lovely seasonal craft for little ones. It’s simple, colorful, and one of the cutest spring crafts for toddlers.
Head over to Beth Ann Averill for more
Egg Carton Flowers Craft
Turn an egg carton into a cute little flower pot and fill it with colorful pipe cleaner blooms. It’s a fun way to reuse everyday materials while building fine motor skills as kids twist, bend, and arrange the flowers.
Visit Mommy Evolution for instructions
Cupcake Liner Daffodil Craft
Cupcake liners make the perfect center for these cheerful daffodils and help create texture in the flower. It’s a simple craft that helps kids to learn about this early spring time flower.
Head over to Cultivating Brilliant Minds for details
Paper Straw Flowers (Free Template)
Paper flowers that never wilt? Yes please! These adorable spring blooms are made with bright paper and drinking straws for stems — simple, sweet, and totally budget-friendly. A toddler-friendly craft that looks gorgeous long after real spring flowers have faded.
Visit Simply Full of Delight for more
DIY Paper Lily Handprint Craft for Kids
Here’s a delightfully sweet spring handprint craft that little ones will definitely need some help with. But won’t it make the cutest DIY gift for mom’s on Mother’s Day? A little more effort, but worth it to see the delight on mom’s face.
Head over to Making Crafty Things for details
Handprint Cherry Blossom Tree
This soft and pretty craft is perfect for talking about all the trees that start to blossom in the spring. All that tissue paper scrunching will help develop finger strength too.
Visit Cultivating Brilliant Minds for instructions
Paper Roll Spring Trees
Turn simple paper rolls into 3d spring trees full of color! You could easily extend this craft for the seasons and include in your lineup of winter, summer or fall crafts.
Paper roll spring trees from toddleratplay
Handprint Flower Craft
Little hands make the best flowers, don’t they?! These handprint tulips are quick, colourful and guaranteed to make someone’s day — especially with a sweet message tucked on the back.
Jump over to Simple Everyday Mom for details
Minimal Mess Spring Nature Crafts for Toddlers
Get outside first, then get crafting. These nature-inspired ideas are some of my favourites — they encourage little ones to explore the season before a fun activity at the craft table.
DIY Pressed Flower Pinch Pots
These tiny handmade pinch pots are the perfect way to bring the beauty of spring indoors!
Press freshly picked flowers straight into the clay for a gorgeous, one-of-a-kind finish — perfect for holding jewellery, trinkets, or simply as a pretty seasonal decoration.
Visit Fox Farm Home for instructions
Contact Paper Nature Suncatcher
This one starts with a forage — grab your toddler and head outside to collect spring flowers, petals and leaves. Once home, stick everything onto contact paper and hang in the window.
The light coming through is just gorgeous – what a delightful spring craft for toddlers.
Full tutorial over at @cirquedusewell
Spring Flower Bracelets
Head outside for a little spring foraging — gathering petals, leaves, and whatever garden treasures catch your toddler’s eye!
Then fasten a strip of duct tape around your little one’s wrist, sticky side out, and let them create their very own nature bracelet. So simple, so cute!
More outdoor activities for 2, 3 and 4 year olds here
Nature-Inspired Paper Plate Bunny
Paper plate bunnies with a cute fringe of flower petals. Or instead of a bunny, why not try a simple floral pattern – whatever takes the fancy of your toddler.
Little ones will love arranging and sticking, and the end result will be bright and full of the colors of spring. Gorgeous displayed on a windowsill!
Jump over to @EmmaFaith for further details
Easy Spring Animal & Bug Crafts
Spring is when we start seeing baby animals and tiny bugs everywhere. These crafts are a fun way to explore life cycles, habitats, and all the little creatures that show up this time of year.
Hatching Chick Paper Plate Craft
Introduce the concept of chicks hatching from eggs with an adorable hatching chick basket. It’s a cute and playful spring craft kids will love.
Jump over to Finding Myself Young for more
Bunny Handprint Craft
Handprint crafts always feel extra special, and this Easter bunny craft is no exception. It’s a sweet way to explore baby animals while creating a simple keepsake.
Visit Beth Ann Averill for instructions
Easy Paper Plate Ladybug Craft
Simplify this cute ladybug craft for your 2 or 3 year old and buy red paper plates and black dot stickers!
You can add a little number practice and count the stickers as you stick them on. This cute spring animal art project is sure to keep little hands busy.
Visit The Diary of Dad for instructions
Handprint Caterpillar Craft
Caterpillars don’t stay caterpillars for long, which makes this a fun way to introduce life cycles. This cheerful craft is bright, playful, and fun to make, ideal for 2 and 3 year old toddlers.
Jump over to The Soccer Mom Blog for more
Toilet Paper Roll Chick Craft
We love toilet paper roll crafts! It always feels good to turn something that will otherwise get trashed into a cute craft. This adorable little chick makes such a simple spring art project for toddlers.
Jump over to Print Your Story for more
DIY Paper Hedgehog Craft for Kids to Make this Spring
Hedgehogs are such interesting little creatures. This craft provides an opportunity to talk about how these spiky little animals curl into a ball to protect themselves.
Visit Making Crafty Things for instructions
Salt Dough Spring Decor
Mix one cup of salt, two cups of plain flour and one cup of water — and you’ve got salt dough. Roll it out and use some cookie cutters to make flowers, butterflies, chicks or the cute bunnies pictured.
Once baked and dried, your toddler can paint and decorate them to keep as decorations year after year. A gorgeous keepsake spring toddler craft and a lovely gift for grandparents too.
For more details head to 3 Boys And A Dog
More animal themed crafts here:
- 50 Easy Giraffe Activities & Craft Ideas for Kids
- 31 Cute Cat Crafts for Toddlers
- 55 Easy Dinosaur Crafts & Activities for Toddlers & Preschoolers
- 35 Simple Monkey Crafts & Activities for Preschoolers
Rainbows, Clouds & Sky Crafts
Rainbows, sunshine, clouds, and windy kite days are all part of the magic of spring. These weather-inspired crafts help kids explore what’s happening up in the sky.
Rainbow Lacing Craft (Free Printable Template)
This rainbow lacing activity is a great way to strengthen little fingers and practice coordination while matching by color. It’s a simple activity that will keeps little hands busy and focused.
Jump over to This Tiny Blue House for more
Cloud Suncatcher Craft (Free Printable Template)
Hang this in the window and watch the light shine through. It’s a great way to talk about cloudy days and what happens before it rains.
Jump over to This Tiny Blue House for details
Mosaic Kite Craft (Free Printable Template)
Spring often brings windy days, but if you can’t get out to fly a kite, why not make one instead!
This mosaic craft will keep little hands busy inside one spring afternoon and there’s plenty of opportunity to build skills here too.
As kids place the mosaic pieces, they’ll have to work at fine motor control and coordination, as well as patience and perseverance.
Jump over to This Tiny Blue House for more
“You Are My Sunshine” Paper Plate Craft
This bright sunshine craft opens up conversations about why the sun is so important for life on earth. This will make a bright and cheerful spring daycare craft!
Visit The Soccer Mom Blog for instructions
Set Them Up & Let Them Create!
Washi Tape Spring Shapes
Cut card into the shape of a flower or butterfly and hand your toddler a roll of washi tape and stickers and let them get creative! You may be pleasantly surprised by the results.
No paint, no mess, no stress! A simple spring craft, ideal for preschool.
For more details head to @happy.little_hands
Tissue Paper Spring Suncatcher
Cut tissue paper into small squares — buy it pre-cut to save time — and stick onto contact paper cut into a flower, butterfly or egg, as pictured. Then hang in the window and watch the light transform it into something magical.
Head to Crafts By Amanda for the full tutorial
Spring Nature Collage
Draw the outline of a flower, butterfly, bird or spring animal — and let your toddler trace the outline with petals, leaves and grass gathered on a walk.
The results are always wonderfully unique. A brilliant activity for encouraging little ones to look closely at the natural world around them.
Find the full how-to at @laurens_lil_learners
Tin Foil Spring Shapes
Cut card into a flower, bunny or chick shape, wrap in tin foil, and hand your toddler some sharpies to decorate. The metallic finish makes the colours really pop, and older toddlers will enjoy experimenting with patterns.
Nothing to dry, no mess to speak of. Simple and effective!
Full tutorial over at @happy_partyland
Shredded Paper Collage
Tear or cut up scraps of coloured paper and stick onto a spring shape outline. Older toddlers with budding scissor skills can have a go at cutting their own strips, while younger ones are perfectly happy just tearing and sticking.
Simple, satisfying and great for those little hand muscles too.
Jump over to @planetamatka for further details
Decorated Playdough Spring Shapes
If salt dough feels like one step too many, store=bought playdough will work just as well for a fun hands-on activity — and no oven required. Grab some spring-themed cookie cutters, roll out the dough together and let your toddler get creative.
Wonderfully sensory, brilliantly calming, and great for building hand strength. A classic spring activity for toddlers that love to get stuck in.
Full tutorial over at @babybrightstars
Hands-On Spring Toddler Activities
Toddler learning activities doesn’t necessarily mean glue and paper. This mix of spring-time activities encourages movement, creative thinking, and hands-on exploration.
Homemade Easter Egg Bath Bombs
This one is such a fun sensory treat for little ones!
The classic baking soda and citric acid formula is used to make bath bombs – possibly more a project for you than your 2 or 3 year old.
But your toddler is sure to enjoy a colorful and fizzy bathtime experience afterwards – a fun – science experiment in the tub!
Head over to Mom Foodie for details
Spring Counting Tree
Kids can add leaves or flowers to the tree while practicing their counting. A simple toddler learning activity for outside that makes early math feel a little more playful.
Spring Counting Tree From Eyfsteacher_Autism_Family
How to Make a Nesting Ball for Backyard Birds
This one is such a sweet sensory activity to try this Spring and will help kids learn the type of materials that birds collect to build nests for their eggs.
Head over to Fox Farm Home for details
Looking for Easter printables? Try these fun activities:
- 7 Fun FREE Easter Counting Activities & Math Worksheets
- FREE Printable Easter Bunny Templates {9 Different Designs}
- 8 FREE Printable Easter Bookmarks For Kids To Color
- 10 Kids Easter Cards To Print & Color – Super Easy Printable Easter Activity!
- 2 Fun FREE Printable Easter Activity Placemats for Kids
- 2 Easter Color By Number Free Printables – Chick & Bunny Design
- 10 Kids Easter Cards To Print & Color
Making the Most of Spring with Toddlers
Spring is such a wonderful time for little ones to explore, create, and learn about the world around them. Whether you’re making flowers, discovering bugs, trying new activities, or simply enjoying some spring time crafts, these simple ideas can turn everyday moments into fun learning experiences.
Sometimes all it takes is a little paint, paper, and curiosity to spark creativity and meaningful conversations.
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Keep the Easter creativity going with these crafts:
- 25 Fun & Silly Indoor Easter Games For Families (Perfect for Rainy Days!)
- 50 Easy Easter Bunny Crafts That’ll Help Strengthen Little Hands
- 40+ Low Stress Easter Crafts for Toddlers – Minimal Prep, Minimal Mess!
- 39 Adorable Easter Crafts for Toddlers 18 Months+
- 75 Easy Easter Crafts for Little Kids That Make The Cutest Keepsakes
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