If you're looking for a simple art idea to complete this summer with your kiddos, check out this fingerprint idea that was featured by Trish over at Preschool Playbook! Students will have the chance...Read More »

Sunflowers. Pumpkins. Colorful autumn trees. The fall season offers some fabulous crafting inspiration! If you're looking for a fun project idea to share with your kiddos, check out these 6 awesome...Read More »

Ellen Stoll Walsh's Mouse Paint is one of our favorite ways to introduce the concept of color mixing. Using the book as a jumping off point, Cheryl over at Teach Kids Art put this great color mixing...Read More »

Cheryl over at Teach Kids Art featured several ideas for handprint and footprint art projects that were just too cute to pass up! Perfect for an early childhood classroom! And with ideas spanning...Read More »

If you're on the hunt for a simple craft to complete with your early childhood kiddos this Spring or Summer, check out this cute flower craft featured by Linda of Little Family Fun. You most likely...Read More »

Michelle over at Apples and ABC's combined two crafty ideas to create an Earth Day cherry blossom tree you are sure to love! She took the basics of painting with a soda bottle and added in a...Read More »

Celebrate Earth Day with your kiddos by creating these super cute flower stamps featured by Jessi over at Getting Messy with Ms. Jessi! An incredibly simple craft to put together and sure to please...Read More »

How pretty is this photo?!? I would be lying if I said I didn't spend a few minutes just gazing at it. Ah, the beauty of Spring. Makes me wish it was warm enough here to finally head outside!...Read More »

We love cross-curricular studies - especially combining literature and science! Applying learned skills/concepts to more than one subject simultaneously not only creates a more meaningful learning...Read More »

Get your kiddos geared up for the first day of Spring with this super cute and super simple craft featured by Linda over at Little Family Fun. You most likely have the supplies needed on hand...Read More »

If you are on the hunt for Springtime crafts to complete with your kiddos, check out this cheery 3-D daffodil craft featured on Rockabye Butterfly! We love the use of the egg cartons for bringing...Read More »

Add a little 'pop' to your spring flower artwork and decorations by creating 3-D relief flowers, as shown here by Mr. E over at Art With Mr. E. Creating 3-D relief flowers is not only a great way to...Read More »

With Spring finally gracing us with it's presence, I bet you find your little ones itching to get outside! Follow in the example of Preschool Playbook and take your class on a nature walk, paint a...Read More »

Perfect for sping or summer, these simple bottle print flowers are not only colorful, they offer a great opportunity to show your kiddos how simple household objects can be repurposed to create...Read More »

The teachers at McKinley Early Childhood Center show that even the infants can get in on the decorating fun with this festive spring board that features traced hand print flowers! Hand Print Flower...Read More »

A slight twist on the traditional "April showers bring May flowers", this bulletin board designed by the preschool teachers at McKinley Early Childhood Center features a beautiful paper chain...Read More »

A cute exercise for Valentine's Day, invite your students to reflect on the school year and identify two or three things they've enjoyed learning about. Then, armed with construction paper and...Read More »

April showers bring May flowers, right? If you're planning to incorporate a colorful spring flower/gardening unit into your plans, we stumbled across these great activities that are sure to add some...Read More »

We've been obsessed with egg carton flowers lately and, in our search for unique ideas, we found this fun post from Kristina over at Toddler Approved! Not only does her gorgeous spring craft include...Read More »

Amy Anderson, featured craft contributor at Make and Takes and creator of Let's Explore, designed this beautiful spring flower craft that's perfect for using up all those end of the year scraps!...Read More »

Great as a spring craft or last-minute Mother's Day gift, these drinking straw and tissue paper flowers from Emily over at GCDSpa Stuff are super cute! The best part is, she provides a template for...Read More »

It always amazes us what crafty people can do with a simple paper plate! We've been stumbling across super adorable paper plate crafts lately and thought we'd put together a spring showcase to share...Read More »

Gail, artist and creator of the blog, That Artist Woman, posted an awesome tutorial for making these beautiful, fall inspired newspaper sunflowers. We think they'd make a fabulous project for your...Read More »

The perfect compliment to your spring bug unit or a literary study of Eric Carle's The Very Hungry Caterpillar, these super cute hand print bugs crafts are sure to be 'kid pleasers'! Supplies...Read More »