Danielle's Place of Crafts and Activities

Teaching Children Through Crafts and Activities

Welcome to Danielle's Place where you will find thousands of free crafts for kids designed to make learning fun.
Many of the crafts and activities are Bible-based and are great for use in Sunday school, preschool, home school, and on special occasions.

Spring Crafts and Activities for Kids

Build a Fairy House this Spring!

You should only use natural things to build your house. Fairies do not like to disturb anything that is growing so you shouldn't use anything that is still growing like flowers, ferns, and leaves.

Hi, I'm Danielle. I just read a great book called Fairy Houses by Tracy Kane! It's a story about a little girl who builds a fairy house. It tells how she attracted some fairies and a lot of other animals. At the end of the book it tells you all about how you can build a fairy house and attract some fairies too. It says to try to find a place that is hidden and away from people.

My mom helped me build these houses in our garden. I hope the fairies like them. We had a lot of fun building them and so will you. And just maybe you will see a fairy, or at least some animals visiting your home.

You can find out more about this book and see more pictures of fairy houses by going to www.fairyhouses.com

Resin Jewelry

This craft is mostly for older children and adults, but younger children will love looking for tiny objects that can be placed in the molds. It should be done outside on a warm spring or summer day because the fumes from the resin are very strong.

The resin and molds used for this craft can be purchased from All Craft Supplies.

You will need to purchase Castin Craft Reusable molds #296702, Castin Craft Clear Casting Resin # 268747, and Castin Craft Mold Release #268527.

Collect tiny items that will fit in each mold. Place them in the molds to make sure they fit and don't stick out over the edge of the molds.

Some suggested items, small flowers, stones, beads, gems, feathers, seeds, candy, stickers, and sea shells.

You can find excellent directions to make these pendants on YouTube and on the package of Castin Craft Resin.

I used needle nosed pliers to bend clip-on 10 mm pendant bails so that one end hung down into the molds. I pulled out the short bottom part so that it would hang down into the molds and squeezed the top of the bails almost closed. If you can't find the right pendant bails, you can use the ends of paper clips or bent wire.

This is a fairly easy craft, but it does take some practice. The we enjoyed most was searching to things to place in the pendants.

EasyCast Resin Jewelry Book with over 50 Projects
#296701 - Purchase this Book from AllCraftSupplies.com.

"Spring has Sprung" Spring 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 Craft

A great craft for rainy Spring Days.

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.

Spring 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.
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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.

Spring 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).
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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.