Welcome to Danielle's Place! We believe learning should be fun. This site is dedicated to teaching children
through crafts and activities. You will find hundreds of inexpensive crafts and activities for children. Most of
the crafts and activities on this site are Bible-based and are great to use in Sunday School, Vacation Bible School,
preschool, and home school. You will find complete Sunday school lessons and lessons for Christian homes schools.

Spring Crafts

 

"Spring has Sprung" Color and Activity Sheet

What you will need: crayons, you can also use butterfly, birds, ladybug, or flower stickers stickers, fun foam shapes, or silk flowers to glue onto the picture after the children have colored it.

What to do: Print out the pattern and make copies. Have your children color the picture. You may also want to provide stickers, silk flowers or real pressed flowers for the children to glue onto their picture. You can even have them press their own flowers a few days before you do this craft.

rainy day words cloud craftRainy Day Words Cloud Craft

Children assemble the cloud and rainbow craft. They think of words that describe a rainy day and write them on the raindrops. They can then make a cloud shaped book and write a rainy day story using the new words they have learned.

Patterns for this craft is available to Members Only. If you would like to find out more about becoming a member click on member only.

Bird Picture with Real Leaves

What you will need: Heavy Paper, crayons and markers, glue, dried leaves, straw or dry grass, pipe cleaner, and Exacto knife.

What to do:

  1. Print out the pattern onto heavy paper.
  2. Collect leaves and press them in a heavy book between sheets of waxed paper. Collect some dried grass or straw.
  3. Color the picture and then glue on dried leaves on the branches and grass on the nest.
  4. Cut a hole on each side of the mama bird's beak. Cut a piece of brown pipe cleaner about 2 to 3 inches long and stick in through the hole to make it look like the bird is holding a worm.

Bird Feeder Craft

What you will need: 6 3/4 oz. Pringle's Potato Chip Can with lid, 7 in. plastic Chinet plate, and a 9 in. plastic Chinet plate, bolt with nut, hot melt glue gun, hole punch, string for hanging, acrylic paint, and stickers (optional).

What to do:

  1. Paint the Pringle's can any color you would like and let dry.
  2. Cut three or four small holes about 3/4" by 1/2" around the bottom edge of the can for the bird seed to come out.
  3. Poke two hole in the top sides of the can on opposite sides. These will be used to hang the bird feeder.
  4. Glue the bottom of the can onto the middle of the 7" plastic plate. Drill a hole in the bottom of the plate through the bottom of the can. Stick a bolt through and screw on the nut from the inside of the can.
  5. Glue the top side of the plastic lid onto the to of the large plastic plate. Poke to holes in the plastic plate right next to the lids on opposite sides.
  6. Stick one end of a piece of string through a hole in the top of the Pringle's can, through the middle and the other hole and out of the can. Now bring both ends of the string up through the wholes you punched in the top plastic plate. Tie the string ends together at the top. To fill the bird feeder just pull off the lid and let it dangle to the side.

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