Preschool Cross Craft in Sunset Colors

Kids will love this fun craft! From cutting to gluing and tracing, all of the actions involved in making this craft project benefit their fine motor skill development.

This preschool cross craft is great to make with kids in the classroom, in Sunday School, or at home.

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Supplies for Sunset Cross Craft to Make for Easter

• Colored Paper (Sunset Colors)
• White Cardstock
• Glue Stick
• Scissors
• Pencil 

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How to make these simple paper cross crafts

Use scissors to cut paper strips from the colored paper in sunset colors. 

We picked colors from yellow to pink and different shades of blue. It’s not important to cut strips of the exactly the same width. Once you cut them, place them aside for later.

Fold the white cardstock in half. Press only on the middle part. 

Using a pencil, draw half of a cross. 

Cut the cross out from the middle, making sure the frame remains uncut. 

Take a second piece of white cardstock and place the cross frame on top. Trace the cross on the bottom cardstock.  

Apply glue on the white cardstock and glue paper strips over the cross outline, from lighter to darker. Keep gluing until you cover the cross outline completely.

Apply glue to the cardstock with the cross shape cut out. Make sure to add the glue to the side with the pencil markings. 

Press the cross frame and glue it over the paper with paper strips. Cut out extra paper strips to finish.

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Sunday School Easter Craft

We love simple crafts that can apply to different age groups, from preschoolers to elementary-age children. This easy Sunday school Easter craft is one of those activities.

There is a lot of cutting and tracing involved which makes this craft perfect for kids who need to work on their fine motor skills.

Don’t miss our sunset cross craft!

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Supplies for a Religious Easter Craft for Kids

• Construction Paper (Black and Sunset Colors)
• White Scrapbook Paper (Scrap)
• Scissors
• Pencil
• Stick Glue

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How to make this easy Easter craft

Start by outlining a cross shape onto a white paper scrap. Cut it out and put it aside for later. 

Stack papers in sunset colors and cut out paper strips freehand (yellow, red, orange, pink). 

Repeat the same with blue hue papers and cut out several paper strips of each color. 

Place black construction paper on the table and start gluing paper strips to create a sunset background. 

Use the cross template you created earlier to outline and cut out crosses from black construction paper. We need 3 crosses. You can make the cross in the middle a bit larger than the other two.

Cut out a piece of black paper to use as the mountain on the bottom of the sunset scene. Glue it and the 3 crosses on top of the mount. 

Your Sunday school Easter craft is finished! Super simple and easy to make, wouldn’t you agree?

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Giant Rainbow Paper Flowers

We love these simple flower crafts using only a few supplies! This 3D giant rainbow paper flower craft is perfect as a group activity and would look amazing on a classroom bulletin board, don’t you think? The perfect way to bring a piece of spring inside!

Added bonus, this easy rainbow craft can help to teach about all the colors of the rainbow!

These will look lovely with our paper sunflowers!

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Supplies for 3D Paper Flowers

• Construction Paper (Black and Rainbow Colors)
• White Cardstock
• Giant Hole Punch
• Pipe Cleaner
• Hole Punch
• Glue Stick
• Paper Cutter or Scissors

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How to Make Giant 3D Rainbow Paper Flowers

Cut 1″ (or wider) paper strips in rainbow colors and an additional green paper strip for a flower stem. 

Using a giant hole punch, cut a circle from black construction paper. We used a 1.25″ circle puncher. It’s important for the circle to be wider than the paper strips. 

 Align the paper strips and punch holes on both sides. On 2nd the green paper strip punch only one hole for the top part where it connects with the petals. Punch a hole in the middle of the black circle as well.

Place the black circle on top of the stacked rainbow strips and thread a pipe cleaner through. Flip the flower over and thread through the second hole to form the flower petals.

Related Craft – Check out this paper daisy craft.

Add the green paper strip for a stem. Coil the pipe cleaner on top of the black circle. Flip and secure the pipe cleaner on the back of the flower. Cut any extra pipe cleaner using scissors. 

Place a piece of white construction paper on the table. Apply glue to the back of the stem. Glue it onto the white paper.

Fold the bottom of the green paper strip, apply glue, and glue to the paper. This will form a leaf. Separate and arrange rainbow paper strips to form a flower head.

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Giant Paper Sunflower

Even during the Spring season, make a few of these lovely giant paper sunflower to welcome and speed up the coming of Summer! We adore these bright flowers and love seeing fields full of blooming sunflowers! How about you?

Fun paper flowers you don’t want to miss!

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Supplies for Giant Paper Sunflowers

• Construction Paper, Yellow
• Pipe Cleaners, Green and Brown
• Hole Punch
• Scissors
• Paper Cutter

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How to make these construction paper sunflowers for kids

Cut yellow construction paper into strips using a paper cutter. Make the paper strips in different widths. 

We cut few 0.75 inches wide and some 0.5 inches wide. It’s important that the paper strips are wide enough to punch a hole using paper puncher. 

Pick some paper strips that are the same width, stack, and align them. Punch holes on both sides.

Take a brown pipe cleaner, fold 1/3, and flatten a little piece to create a stopper for the paper strips.

Pick one of the wider paper strips, fold to connect the ends, and slide the pipe cleaner through both holes. Repeat with other paper strips. Note: we are adding paper strips on the longer part of the pipe cleaner.

For the center of the sunflower, we want petals to be a bit shorter. If needed, shorten a few strips with scissors and punch holes again. Thread on the pipe cleaner, the same way we did with wide and long yellow strips before. 

When you add all the paper strips, use a brown pipe cleaner to create the center of the sunflower. Coil it into a circle while pressing the center.

Flip your sunflower over to add and secure a green pipe cleaner on the back. This will be the stem. 

Arrange petals a bit if needed. And, you are finished. You have made a lovely giant paper sunflower! Pretty, isn’t it? 

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Paper Daisy

Adding rainbow colors to plain daisy flower makes this humble flower all dressed up and ready to greet Spring.

Walk around with this paper daisy in your hand (or your hat) on St.Patrick’s Day, or to be given with love on Mother’s Day!

Don’t stop at one, make a whole bouquet of these colorful and easy rainbow paper daisies!

Don’t miss our other Rainbow paper flower!

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Supplies Needed to Make Rainbow Daisies with Kids

• Construction Paper (Rainbow Colors)
• Paper Cutter
• Pipe Cleaners
• Hole Punch
• Scissors

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How To Make Easy Rainbow Paper Flowers

Start by cutting construction paper into 0.5-inch strips. Make at least one strip from each color of the rainbow. 

Stack all the paper strips and align them. Cut them in half. You can make 2 flowers from one paper strip length. 

Stack and align paper strips again. Punch holes on each end of the strips. 

Fold a pipe cleaner in half. Make a little piece in the middle flat. This will help us to stop paper strips from sliding off paper cleaner. 

Push the pipe cleaner through one of the holes of each of the paper strips. Follow the order of the colors on the rainbow. 

Now thread the pipe cleaner through the second hole. Reverse the order and start with last paper strip you added. Repeat with all paper strips. 

Fold the pipe cleaner into a circle to form a center of the flower. This will also help keep paper strips in place.

To finish these rainbow paper daisies, spread the petals and arrange them with approximately similar space inbetween.  

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Healthy Snacks for Toddlers

Most of the recipes we shared on this page are fruit based. A number of these snacks for toddlers are super easy, with no-cooking-required.

And we have fun recipes like fruit popsicles for hot summer days, and then, there are pizza, quiche or muffins for colder winter weather.

No-Cooking Required Fruit Snacks for Toddlers

Yogurt and Berry Bites // Meaningful Mama
Perfect for hot summer days. Require quick freezing so make sure to prepare ahead.

Fruit Swords and Magic Wands // Rainy Day Mum
Can’t get any simpler to make a quick healthy snack than this!

Fruit Sushi // Nerdy Mamma
Raw fruit for a quick snack when you don’t have time to cook or bake.

Rainbow Fruit Skewers // Eats Amazing
Great snack to take on a picnic or to serve on a kid’s birthday party!

Toddler-Friendly Raspberry Yoghurt // Recipe This
Make in 3 minutes or less!

Tasty and Healthy Popsicles for Kids

Kiwi Rainbow Ice Pops // Rainy Day Mum
100% fruit based rainbow popsicles! Looks so yummy!

Blueberry Vanilla Yogurt Pops // Kidz Activities
Easy to make healthy fruity popsicle with only two ingredients.

Organic & Healthy Snacks for Toddlers

Oatmeal Banana Cookies // Twitchetts
Perfect recipe when you cook together with your toddlers!

Apple Pie Oatmeal Cookies // Nerdy Mamma
Most toddlers love apples and they will get attracted by the scent of these easy cookies.

Healthy Toddler Snack Wraps // My Bored Toddler
Wraps made with chia and red quinoa for quick toddler snack.

Whole Grain Granola Bars // Tiny Tummy Tales
These granola bars are extremely easy to tweak to your liking!

Children’s Book Inspired Healthy Snacks for Toddlers

The Very Hungry Caterpillar Fruit Cookies // A Little Pinch of Perfect
Inspired by a favorite children’s book and great as a follow-up activity after reading.

Chicka Chicka Boom Boom Snack // Fun Learning for Kids
Make a Chicka Chicka Boom Boom snack to eat while you read this book!

Giant Cat in a Hat Fruit Kabobs // Preschool Powol Packets
Giant Cat in the Hat Fruit Kabobs that are super easy to make and so fun to eat!

Yummy Healthy Muffins, Pizza and More

Banana Bread Muffins // The Inspired Home
Change the shape of classic banana bread to make them fun for toddlers!

Healthy Fruit Pizza // Mom Explores the Smokies
Pizza is always a hit with kids and this fruity version is super easy to make!

Mini Quiches Recipe // Eats Amazing
When you need a bit more filling snack or breakfast for toddlers, mini quiches are a perfect choice!

Snowman Snack // Red Ted Art
Like fresh fruit is awesome for summer, cheese and dried fruit are perfect for healthy eating during winter.

Apple Chips // Snotty Noses
When the only fruit your toddler wants to eat is apples, get creative with the presentation!

Homemade Fruit Roll-Ups // Amanda’s Cookin
Awesome snack, once prepared can last in a fridge for couple weeks!

As you can see, many of these recipes are perfect as birthday party food as well. We hope this collection of healthy snacks inspires and helps you feed your toddler! And, please, share with other parents!

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Rainbow Paper Flowers

Cutting, punching, threading, folding – this simple paper craft contains so many benefits for fine motor skill development. The best part, your preschoolers or kindergarteners will not even know they work on their fine motor skills! For them, this will be a fun and interesting craft!

Rainbow crafts that are perfect for kids of all ages!

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Supplies for these easy paper flowers

• Construction Paper (Rainbow Colors)
• Paper Cutter
• Pipe Cleaners
• Hole Punch
• Scissors

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How to make paper flowers and build fine motor skills for preschoolers

Using a paper cutter, cut 0.5-inch wide paper strips. You will need at least one paper strip from each of the colors of the rainbow to make a single flower.

Pick all the paper strips and align them. Punch a hole on each end through all the stacked paper strips making sure holes are aligned on individual paper strips. 

Take a pipe cleaner, fold it in half. Flatten a little piece in the middle of the pipe cleaner to form an end of the stem. It will help stop the paper strips from sliding to the end of the pipe cleaner. 

Slide the pipe cleaner through both holes of each paper strip. Start with orange and follow the order of the colors on the rainbow until you finish threading all paper strips. 

Related Craft: Don’t miss our most popular rainbow paper flower!

Use one half of the pipe cleaner to form a flower’s receptacle. Wrap the pipe cleaner around the bottom of the flower and flatten as you go. 

Using paper strips in different length, you can create differently sized rainbow flowers. For smaller flowers, use shorter paper strips. For bigger paper flowers, use longer paper strips. 

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Mended Paper Hearts

There is something special when receiving handmade Valentine’s Day cards, you have to agree!

This mended paper hearts craft project is perfect to make with kids at home, to give to their favorite people. You can also use it as a quick and easy way to make classroom Valentines during art class!

We created 3 different versions using the same process:

• mended heart bookmark
• mended heart folded Valentine’s Day card
• “Love You to Pieces” Valentine

Turn Mended Hearts into Bookmarks in a Kindness Project

Reminder: National Random Acts of Kindness Day is on February 17th and World Kindness Day is on November 13th each year.

Bookmarks can be gifted either to people in their lives who are avid readers or to their friends. Children can also turn this craft into a kindness project for Valentine’s day!

They can make many of mended heart bookmarks, write encouraging messages on the back (or their favorite quotes) and leave all those bookmarks inside books when they return them to the school library! Spread love!

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Supplies for this Paper Hearts Craft

• Construction Paper (any color you like!)
• White Cardstock
• Scissors
• Glue Stick
• Black Marker or Pencil

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How to Make Mended Paper Hearts Valentine’s Day Cards and Bookmarks

Prepare in advance blank bookmark and cards cut from white construction paper.

Start by stacking 3 different colors of construction paper one on top of another. Use bookmark as a guide and draw freehand a heart small enough to fit inside. 

Repeat drawing process with a piece of white cardstock cut in card size. 

Cut the hearts, holding all three construction papers firmly. Our goal is to have 3 smaller and 3 bigger hearts, each in 3 different colors and exactly the same size. 

Hold bigger hearts together and cut them in 4 pieces. Cut smaller hearts in 3 pieces, making sure to hold all 3 pieces together firmly. 

Flip hearts on the other side to hide pencil (or marker) when gluing on white cardstock.

Arrange the broken hearts in such a way to have 3 different color pieces for each heart bookmark (smaller hearts).

When using bigger hearts, since we have cut 4 pieces, some of the pieces will be repeated so just try to make them as colorful as possible. These will be used for Valentine’s Day cards. 

Glue each of the mended hearts using a glue stick. Make sure to leave a bit of white cardstock visible between pieces. All three mended hearts should fit inside a bookmark.

Glue pieces to form a larger mended heart on the folded piece of white cardstock to create a Valentine’s Day card. Again, make sure to leave a bit of space between heart pieces.

And also make sure pieces align in such a way to form a heart. It’s easy to glue them a bit crooked.

Another option for Valentine’s Day card: instead of folded Valentine’s Day card where you write a message to a receiver inside the card, you can make a Valentine’s Day card with a message right on the front, like this “Love You to Pieces!” card. 

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Spread Love Magic with Paper Heart Wand

Kids just adore all things magical and wands are a big part of this! When it comes to Valentine’s Day, we got inspired to make heart wands using construction paper and pipe cleaners.

This simple craft is perfect for kids to make at home for themselves or their classmates. It can also be a lovely gift for a teacher for Valentine’s day!

If you are a teacher, you can make these paper heart wands as a classroom project for Valentine’s Day!

These paper love bug puppets are too cute to pass up!

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Supplies for Heart Shaped Wand

• Construction Paper (any color you want!)
• Paper Cutter
• Pipe cleaners
• Hole Punch
• Pencil
• Beads
• Scissors

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How to Make Cute Heart Shaped Wands

Gather your supplies! Set aside everything, we start with a paper cutter and construction paper. 

Start by cutting paper strips from construction paper using a paper cutter or scissors, making sure they are all in the same width. 

Fold one of the paper strips in half and punch a hole on each of the folded sides. 

Hold the bottom of the folded paper strip, pick a top part and join with the bottom. Repeat with the other side, forming a heart shape. Holes should be aligned.

 Take a pipe cleaner and pull it through the holes. Fold the pipe cleaner in half. Twist it under the paper heart to secure it and keep twisting until you reach the end of the pipe cleaner. 

Add some beads to decorate your heart wand by pulling them through the bottom of a pipe cleaner holder. Your Valentine’s Day heart wand is ready! Spread some love magic around! 

Related: Make flowers from a heart shape with this tutorial.

Paper Heart Wands – Variations to Basic Valentine’s Day Craft

 We also made a few variations. First is with 2 paper strips in different sizes, creating a double heart.

To make the double heart, pick construction paper strips in two different colors. Cut one a bit shorter. Fold both in half and punch holes on both sides. Place paper strips together, longer being on inside. 

Join tops to bottom, first shorter strip and then longer paper strips to form a double heart and making sure holes are aligned. Pull pipe cleaner through the holes, fold in half and twist to form a wand holder.

The next heart wand variation includes 3 paper strips in different colors.

You will leave 2 of them in full length and cut one shorter. Start by folding all 3 paper strips in half, stack them together and punch a hole on the bottom (folded) part. Punch a hole on the other side of one long and one shorter paper strip. The third shouldn’t be punched.

Fold the paper strips to form a double heart then add 3rd paper strip from outside.

Pull the pipe cleaner through the bottom hole to secure paper strips and twist. Using a pencil, curl the edges of the long paper strip to finish this paper heart wand.

 The last variation, for a paper heart wands, we created is with 4 paper strips cut in 4 different lengths. Make sure to stack them when punching a hole to have the holinon each paper in the same spot. 

After that, stack folded paper strips in such a way that longest is inside and shortest outside. Fold tops to bottom. Tie using pipecleaner, like we did in previous variations. 

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Heart resist painting

The technique we use to create our heart art project is easy and fun for kids of all ages. The twist we mentioned entails using 2 different colors of oil pastels to draw hearts. Using white and black oil pastels create a completely different final result.

A heart art project created using black oil pastel looks amazingly similar to stain glass artwork!

Another change from standard watercolor resist painting where you use watercolors to paint directly on paper, we used washable markers and transfer the paint on paper.

You can use your finished heart art to create other Valentine’s Day crafts like Valentine’s Day cards, add them to a journal, turn them into a banner to hang around your home or classroom, or even frame them as an artwork!

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Supplies for Heart Art Project

• White Construction or Watercolor Paper
• Oil Pastels
• Aluminum Foil
• Washable Markers
• Spray Bottle with Water

How to Make a Heart Resist Painting with a Fun Twist

Start by drawing or doodling your heart design with black oil pastel on white construction paper (or watercolor paper). Use another piece of white paper to doodle and draw a different heart design with white oil pastel.

Cut out a piece of an aluminum foil, a bit larger than the prepared piece of white paper you used for drawing your heart design. Use washable markers to scribble directly on the foil. Pick a color combination you like the most, we decided to use pastel colors for our heart resist paintings.

After you are satisfied with watercolor marker scribbles, take a spray bottle filled with water and lightly spray water all over the foil.

Next step is pressing the paper with your heart design facing down on foil. Go over the white paper with your fingers and palm, making sure the complete surface is pressed onto the foil.

Lift the white paper and admire your heart artwork! Here you can see how lovely the heart resist painting looks with black oil markers, giving a stain glass effect. Leave aside to dry. And move onto a second heart design!

This time, change the design of your watercolor scribbles, we used a circular drawing. Repeat the process – apply water spray and press the white paper facing down, make sure to press it firmly.

It’s amazing and magical how the white heart pops once the color is applied! 

We have to warn you: this heart resist painting process is addictive and kids could end up making tons of different heart designs! Prepare enough white paper and foil pieces in advance!

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