Two Springtime Craft Ideas for Kids!

Here are two of the fun springtime crafts that we made last year! We still have our litle spring topiary and are using it for our decor this year. Scroll down to see our bunny houses!

Simple Springtime Topiary
 

The boys and I had a great time making this little spring topiary. This was a 15 minute project (once I rounded up all the supplies that I needed). PERFECT for the kids to help with. Between the garage, Easter decorations box, and craft closet---I was able to scrounge up everything I needed for this project. My inspiration came from my incredibly talented friend, Brooke.

Here is the topiary that she made. I saw it and thought it was so cute and simple. We did a springtime twist on ours and if you'd like to make one too, here is how we did it!
 

Supplies: Styrofoam ball, dowel (you can see it has been used for something else before...same with the ball), Easter grass (we used the stuff made from paper), paint, pot, floral foam, accessories.

First, Aaron painted the dowel brown.

Dallin cut the floral foam down to size, with a little help. We hot glued it into the pot.

They alternated on who glued and who placed the Easter grass on the ball.

Once the stick was dry, Dallin poked it into the foam and added the covered ball.

A little trimming...

...and a little more grass to cover the floral foam.

Final touches: tiny plastic Easter eggs and a ribbon.

They are so proud of their little tree--and I am too :)

Bunny Houses

Or bunny cubes or bunny huts, because that's what they look like! These were fun to make with the kids. I just made a bunch of square sugar cookies and used royal icing to glue them together. Then the kids decorated them with necco wafers, jelly beans, mini marshmallows, etc. I love how they all turned out so unique.