Happy Spring! {Bird Feeder Crafts}

Happy first day of Spring!  If your kids love watching the birds in the backyard as much as mine do, these bird feeder crafts are a perfect way to welcome in Spring.

Toilet Paper Roll Bird Feeder

Paper Towel Roll Bird Feeder

Dish & Plate Bird Feeder UpCycle

Spring Toilet Paper Roll Crafts

The first day of spring is tomorrow.  I know that after a very long winter we are ready for some much, much warmer weather.  Here are some of my favorite spring crafts to help ring in the new season.

Cardboard Tube Seed Starters

Toilet Paper Roll Flower Art

Cardboard Tube Flowers

Mother's Day Craft Ideas

Mother's Day is Sunday and there's still time for a craft that Mom will love.  Here are a few of my favorites.

Flowers for Mom

Some Fancier Flowers

A Mother's Day Necklace

Cardboard Tube Flower Picture

Cardboard Tube Planters

Now that spring is here it's the perfect time to start your garden.  This activity was a fun way to recycle paper towel rolls and avoid buying small pots for our seedlings.

Planters Supply List: 2 paper towel tubes, seeds, dirt, tupperware or box for your seedlings

Start by cutting your cardboard tubes into 3 pieces.  They make small slits all the way around one side of the tube.  The slits should go about 1/3 of the way down the tube.

Start at the top and progress around the tube folding down each slit until the bottom is completely covered.

Once I showed him how to fold the pieces over Cole was able to do it himself.

Place the tubes in your tupperware or box and fill them with dirt and seeds.

Water your seeds regularly and when the seedlings are ready to be transplanted spread the bottom of the tubes open a little and just put them right in the ground.

Book Suggestion: The Tiny Seed by Eric Carle follows the miracle of a seed as it becomes a giant flower.  This is a great book if the seeds you are planting are flower seeds.  Cole choose onion seeds to plant this year, but we still enjoyed this book and the journey of a tiny seed.

Toilet Paper Roll Spring Flowers

Happy First Day of Spring!  These spring flowers were super fun to make and it's a great way to welcome in my favorite season of the year.   

Spring Flowers Supply List: 2 toilet paper rolls, scissors, construction paper, crayons or markers, glue

Cut your toilet paper rolls in half so that you have 4 smaller tubes.  Cut slits half way down each tube.  I did various sized cuts so that the flowers had different sized petals.

I cut 3 of the tubes and let Cole cut the last one by himself.  It was difficult for him to cut through the cardboard tube but he enjoyed the challenge.

 Fold back the slits that you made.

Using crayons, markers or paints decorate the petals of your flowers.  We used Roll It Paints.  I like these paints a lot because they are easy for little hands to use.

While your flowers dry draw a spring picture on a sheet of construction paper.  Cole really wanted to draw some bugs and grass, so that's what we did.  We also used straws for the stems of our flowers.

Glue your flowers onto your paper and enjoy your creation.

Book Suggestion: It's Spring! is a great book to introduce young children to the sights and sounds that come with the season of spring.  After sharing this story with my son we went for a scavenger hunt in the backyard to look for our own signs of spring.