Celebrate the season with these adorable free printable spring cut and paste crafts for kids!
Children can color, cut, and build cheerful spring creations with insects, animals, flowers, and more.
This printable set includes eight spring favorites, including a bee, butterfly, bunny, and tulip.
Each craft has:
- a black-and-white version kids can color
- a fully colored version for quick assembly
These hands-on crafts are perfect for spring themes, rainy days, classroom centers, homeschool activities, or a quiet afternoon craft at home.
While creating their crafts, children strengthen fine motor skills and build confidence using scissors and glue.
Spring Things Kids Can Build
This printable set includes a variety of cheerful spring favorites:
🐝 Build a Bee
Kids can create a friendly bee while learning about spring pollinators.
🐞 Build a Ladybug
This spotted insect is simple, cute, and perfect for spring learning themes.
🦋 Build a Butterfly
Children can design colorful wings and create their own beautiful butterfly.
🐛 Build a Caterpillar
A fun way to talk about life cycles and the transformation into butterflies.
🌷 Build a Tulip
Celebrate spring flowers by assembling a bright tulip.
🐰 Build a Bunny
This sweet bunny makes a fun addition to springtime crafts.
🐌 Build a Snail
A slow-moving friend that adds charm to any spring scene.
☀️ Build the Sun
Create a cheerful sun to brighten any spring display.
Educational Benefits of Cut and Paste Crafts
These crafts aren’t just fun, they also support important early learning skills:
- ✂️ strengthens fine motor skills
- 🎨 encourages creativity and self-expression
- 👀 builds visual recognition skills
- 🧠 improves focus and following directions
- 📚 supports spring and insect science themes
Supplies
You likely already have everything needed for this craft.
Basic supplies:
- printed craft pages
- scissors
- glue stick
- crayons, markers, or colored pencils
Optional supplies:
- cardstock for sturdier crafts
- folded cardstock to turn crafts into spring cards
- yarn or string for hanging decorations
- magnets or tape for displaying finished crafts
- craft sticks if you’d like to make puppets
Instructions
1. Print the pages
Choose the coloring pages for kids who like to color or the full-color versions for a quicker craft.
2. Color the pieces
Kids can have fun coloring the pieces.
Each craft has a small image of the craft once colored and completed. This is a guide to help kids see what each piece is. Of course, they are free to color the pieces the colors of their choice.
If they wish to choose realistic colors, one idea is to search the web for an image of the item in real life, which your child could reference when choosing colors. For example, what are the possible tulip colors?
3. Cut out the parts
Carefully cut along the outer edges of each piece.
Kids will get to practice their scissor skills.
4. Assemble the craft
A small picture on each page shows how the finished craft should look. Glue the pieces together to build the spring character.
5. Using the Finished Crafts
Once the craft is assembled, there are lots of fun ways to use it! Here are some ideas:
💌 Turn it into a Spring Card
Glue the finished craft onto folded cardstock to create a handmade card. Kids can write a cheerful spring message inside and give it to:
- grandparents
- neighbors
- teachers
- friends
- community helpers
🖼️ Make Spring Decorations
Hang the crafts on a wall, window, or bulletin board to create a cheerful spring display.
You can also string several together to make a spring garland.
🌼 Create a Seasonal Bulletin Board
Perfect for classrooms or homeschool spaces. Arrange the crafts to build a bright spring scene.
🎨 Add to a Spring Nature Journal
Glue the finished craft into a notebook and let kids write:
- one fact they learned
- something they notice about spring
- their favorite part of the season
📚 Use for Learning Centers
Laminate the pieces and reuse them for:
- matching activities
- sorting insects vs. animals vs. plants
- identifying colors and shapes
🎁 Make a Small Gift or Keepsake
Attach the craft to a paper bag, gift wrap, or treat bag for a handmade touch.
🧲 Turn Them into Magnets or Fridge Art
Glue the craft to cardstock and add a magnet strip for cheerful fridge decorations.
Download and Print
Ready to start crafting? Download the printable craft using either form below.
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The PDF has 16 pages:
- 8 coloring versions
- 8 fully colored versions
Print only the pages you want to use.
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More Printable Spring Activities
Keep the spring theme going with these easy printable activities:
- spring color by number coloring pages where kids can practice number recognition while coloring
- strengthen counting and fine motor skills with printable spring connect the dots pages
- the kindergarten spring word search is a simple alphabet activity that helps early readers practice letter recognition and find seasonal words
- this 1st grade spring word search puzzle also has some beautiful spring images for kids to color
- these easy spring word scrambles are a beginner spelling activity where kids use letter clues and pictures to put the sounds in the correct order
- practice their cutting and glue skills with these adorable spring cut and paste crafts