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Spring art projects and crafts – Flower press

To get beautiful dried leaves and flowers, you do not need to go out and buy an expensive flower press. Many people just use books as flower presses, even. We, on the other and, love spring art projects and crafts, so we are going to make our own flower press. All you need is cardboard and rubber bands. Cut the cardboard into multiple pieces of the same size – how big you cut your cardboard is dependent on how big of flowers and leaves you will be pressing. Stack all of your cardboard together. Decorate the top piece and even the bottom piece with paints or markers or whatever. Go out and find some fun leaves and flowers. Put them in between the cardboard. Take the rubber bands and rubber-band the cardboard pieces together tightly. How long it takes for the plants to try is dependent on time and also weather – they will dry out more quickly in dry climates. Wait a few days and then check on them.

The best part about using a flower press as one of your spring art projects and crafts is that you end up with dried plants that you can turn into another art project. You can use these dried plants to make bookmarks (just take two pieces of packing tape and stick them to either side), stationary, and many other beautiful things.

Spring art projects and crafts – Mod Podge and plant pictures

If you have never used Mod Podge before, you have been missing out. Mod Podge is a wonderful substance that acts as a glue and also a sealant. You can use Mod Podge in a variety of spring art projects and crafts. For one, you can have your students or children go out on a scenic hike and gather things that they find interesting – or you can even send them off on a scavenger hunt in search of sticks, flowers, dirt, feathers, or whatever. Then they take all that they have found and arrange it on a piece of heavy-duty paper and paint Mod Podge over and beneath everything. Mod Podge can even keep rocks on a piece of paper and preserve flowers.

If you do not want to work with plants and objects from the outdoors, you can have your students or children cut out pictures of flowers and trees, etc., from magazines and then Mod Podge them to a piece of paper in a fun design. You just need to Mod Podge the piece of paper, stick down your cut-outs, and then Mod Podge over them. For an extra fun and memorable spring art project, you can find a wooden box or a picture frame or even a chair and Mod Podge your cut-outs all over it.

Spring art projects and crafts -- Coffee filter butterflies

For this spring craft, you will need a pipe cleaner, a paper coffee filter, watercolor paints and a paint brush, and water. Let your students or children paint the coffee filter with whatever colors they want to. Let the coffee filter dry. Accordion pleat the coffee filter in about ½ inch pleats. Wrap the pipe cleaner around the middle of the pleated coffee filter to make the body of the butterfly – your two ends will be the antennae. Fan out the coffee filter to make the butterfly’s wings. You can stop with just one butterfly, or you can make a butterfly mobile by tying your butterflies to yarn or fishing line and hanging them from a hanger.

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