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Spring crafts round up

I just love Spring, my mood lifts instantly as I glimpse the flowers opening up and the leaves reappearing on the trees. It’s also a great time to get your craft on. Whether that is with the kids or just for your own enjoyment. Spring time provides so much inspiration. So here is my round up of my own and other bloggers favourite Spring crafts.

Garden Spring Crafts

Getting outdoors and using the garden as inspiration as well as the material source for crafts is fantastic.

Make a miniature garden - Spring crafts - baby budgeting

I love this miniature garden by baby budgeting

This is such a lovely Spring craft.. Let your child’s imagination unfold. You could use a tray or a box as your garden base.’

www.babybudgeting.co.uk

nature treasure box

My boys always love collecting ‘treasure’ so this nature treasure box  by simpleparenting.co.uk will be perfect.

Flower Spring Crafts

Flowers are such a great source of inspiration for me in my design life it’s obvious I’ll love to craft with them too.

The Simple Art of Flower Pressing - thrifty home

I will definitely be reading up on the The Simple Art of Flower Pressing by thrifty home

I would love to include some of these in my fabric designs.

How to make a flower crown ? a beautiful space

I might not be able to convince the boys on a making a flower crown by a beautiful space

But I’m sure I can rock one myself this Spring.

Cherry Blossom Spring Craft - Red Kite Days

I can just see a Cherry Blossom tree by Red Kite Days  adorning my fridge soon. It looks beautiful.

Craft Corner: How to make Pipe Cleaner Flowers

Save your money on fresh flowers and get a whole bunch of Pipe Cleaner Flowers  to adorn your table in an everlasting pop of colour.
Find the tutorial at  www.suburban-mum.com
In case you missed it, I also had a go at making some large scale tissue paper flowers. Their original use was for our photobooth but if you’ve got a vase big enough. They would make a stunning Spring floral display.

DIY Photo Booth Props How To – Craft with Cartwright

With a tight budget we are making a lot of them ourselves. So I thought I’d share my latest DIY photo booth props in a how to post.

Egg Crafts

You can’t escape eggs in Springtime as we approach Easter. So here are my favourite egg inspired crafts.

Easter Crafts: 3 Ideas for Eggcellent Painted Eggs - HodgePodgeDays

Easter Crafts: 3 Ideas for Eggcellent Painted Eggs – HodgePodgeDays This week we’ve been painting some eggs for Easter. We love doing crafts together, he can be a bit easily distracted if something isn’t done and dusted in one session. We chatted about what we could do and between us we came up with three easy ideas for painted eggs.

Old MacDonald Craft For Kids

Old MacDonald Egg Craft For Kids

Old MacDonald Craft For Kids My daughter has always loved animals.

Craft Corner: How to make your own Easter Chicks

Craft Corner: How to make your own Easter Chicks

As Bostik Bloggers this month we were sent a box of Easter based crafts. After deliberating over what to make, the boys decided they wanted to use the polystyrene eggs so we made some Easter Chicks…

Or craft something to keep your egg cosy!

How to make a Easter bunny egg cosy - Craft with Cartwright

How to make a Easter bunny egg cosy – Craft with Cartwright

This is how to make my adapted version of the bunny egg cosy from this months Mollie Makes.

Sun catchers

One of my favourite things about Spring is the return of the sun. I know we have the sun in the winter, but it changes in Spring time. Make the most of it with these four different ideas for sun catchers.

Easter Crafts: Make Colourful Easter Egg Suncatchers - HodgePodgeDays

Easter Crafts: Make Colourful Easter Egg Suncatchers – HodgePodgeDays

I’ve been looking at sun catchers for a while and I thought they’d be just the thing to show off on those bright late winter days we’ve been having lately. Easter lends itself to glorious splashes of colour, so we made some colourful Easter Egg Sun catchers to cast some jewel coloured sunbeams across our home.

Spring blossom sun catchers for kids - the-gingerbread-house.co.uk

Spring blossom sun catchers for kids – the-gingerbread-house.co.uk

Pretty Spring blossom sun catcher activity for kids to make in Springtime

Craft Corner: Make your own stained glass flowers

Craft Corner: Make your own stained glass flowers

This months Bostik theme was Nature and I have to say I struggled with this theme! I got some inspiration from our garden and picked out some leaves and flowers and made these.

www.suburban-mum.com

Tissue Paper Stained Glass Window - Craft with Cartwright

Tissue Paper Stained Glass Window – Craft with Cartwright

It’s a good job I became a mum as it’s given me a chance to use up many of the materials I’ve been hording in my craft stash. Plus revisit crafts and activities I used to love when I was a child. One of my favourites was making Tissue Paper Stained Glass Window decorations.

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45 Comments

  1. I love both knitting and crochet equally. I’m in the process of crocheting eight Easter bunnies for the grand children!

  2. I like sewing and knitting.

  3. Margaret GALLAGHER says:

    Love all crafts especially hand made gifts and cards

  4. Natalie burgess says:

    I love making cards xx

  5. S. Otoole says:

    I enjoy many different crafts

  6. Geri Gregg says:

    I love knitting, as well as making cards

  7. sarah clegg says:

    card making 🙂

  8. My main craft is cardmaking – lots of stamping, colouring and die cutting, but I also like to knit, crochet, cross stitch and embroider.

  9. Rebecca Beesley says:

    I love doing mindfullness colouring with my daughter

  10. Fiona jk42 says:

    If I’m doing crafts by myself then I enjoy crochet, sewing and upcycling furniture – I am currently refurbishing a G-Plan chair that I picked up from Freecycle. If I’m crafting with my granddaughter then we enjoy painting, collage and decoupage.

  11. Gerri Tennant says:

    I love attempting most crafts but particularly sewing and painting. Passing skills onto my small Granddaughters is also top of y list.

  12. I really like crochet and knitting, I loved sewing too until my machine broke!

  13. Amy Bondoc says:

    i really am into latch hook rug kits at the moment

  14. Lorna Ledger says:

    I love knitting, and painting glass, this would be great thanks

  15. Christine Lockley says:

    I love card-making, knitting and would love to learn crochet this year

  16. Ursula Hunt says:

    I like knitting and crocheting

  17. Carole Nott says:

    I like a wide range of handcrafts and sewing, especially making small soft toys

  18. Sheena Batey says:

    I love knitting, dressmaking, cross stitch and tapestry so lots

  19. JULIE WARD says:

    I’m not good at any but I have tried knitting, not very well

  20. Justine Meyer says:

    I love all crafting, knitting, sewing, sticking and glueing and more

  21. Lynn Neal says:

    I enjoy trying different crafts but sewing is my favourite!

  22. I enjoy cross stitch and also making collages with bits we have picked up after walks with the children.

  23. Sandra Fortune says:

    Love crochet and knitting but like drawing,painting and making jewellery I’ve done most crafts

  24. janine atkin says:

    i like cross stitching

  25. Sarah Cooper says:

    I really love rock painting.

  26. lynsey poole says:

    Anything to do with paper mostly or that the children can help with.

  27. Ruth Harwood says:

    we love most crafts, but personally I enjoy the calming effect of cross-stitch, it gives me space to think and solve issues yet still be doing something!

  28. sheri Darby says:

    I love knitting and sewing

  29. jo liddement says:

    I love needle-felting, cross stitch and knitting and have been mastering crochet. Have just made my first crochet flower!

  30. Sarah Roberts says:

    l love Cross stitch and Embroidery, just started getting back into knitting now too, So many lovely crafts so little time .

  31. Rebecca Whatmore says:

    I love decoupage and card making

  32. Rachel Craig says:

    Knitting, cross stitch, card making. Great prize. If I won, would be gifted to friend who enjoys crochet.

  33. paula cheadle says:

    I love knitting, I love seeing the grandkids wearing the jumpers etc that I’ve made

  34. Meryl Thomas says:

    I love sewing and knitting

  35. Rachael Sexey says:

    I love knitting 🐆

  36. Jeanette Leighton says:

    I do sewing and used to knit.

  37. Kim Neville says:

    I like making cards and cross stitch

  38. laura stewart says:

    i like making cards xx

  39. Lou anderson says:

    Cross stitching

  40. I love knitting and card making

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