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Spring Art Center Ideas in Pre-K

By Karen Cox | Affiliate Disclosure | Filed Under: Art Ideas, Easter Theme

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These Spring Art Center ideas will help your preschool artists create some Spring inspired art. So often we give children the same bright colored art materials, those “8 basic colors” to use all year long. Spring is a great time to change it up and introduce some pastels.

Spring Art Center Ideas for Preschool, Pre-K

These ideas work well in an open-ended art center where children can be creative in what they make, choose the art materials they will use, and what they want to create. I believe in letting children follow their own creativity, but it doesn’t hurt to give them suggestions for ways to use the materials, still allowing them to choose what they want to do. Kids might want to make Spring pictures of butterflies and flowers, but they might choose something else not related to Spring at all. Even if they do, it will be interesting for them to use new colors.

Find Spring Block Center Ideas here.

Add Tissue Paper Squares to Your Spring Art Center

Add some pastel colored squares of tissue paper. Children can draw an outline of their picture and fill it in with the tissue squares. These work well with glue sticks. You can show them how to make a butterfly or flower and fill it in with the squares, but I like to give them the choice to use them as they like. Tissue squares can also be crumpled into little balls and glued on.

These can be purchased in a pack of pre-cut squares (Hobby Lobby, Oriental Trading) or just buy some colored tissue paper and cut it.

Tissue Squares for Spring Art: Preschool, Pre-K

Add Foamies and Sequins to Your Spring Art Center

Children love to make pictures with sequins and foamies. For Spring, look for foamie shapes, such as flowers, insects, frogs, turtles, etc. Many children will just stick these randomly all over their paper, so I encourage them to make drawings with their stickers. Show them different ways they can draw along with the stickers and sequins by adding grass for the bugs, stems for the flowers, a pond for the turtles and frogs.

Because many children tend to go overboard with craft foamies and they cost a little more, I recommend either putting these out for a limited number of days (not everyday) and/or make a poster showing how many pieces children can use per day (or per paper).

Tip: Place a mini “trash can” on the table for children to throw away the sticker paper from the back of the craft foamies. You can sometimes find mini trash cans, or use a cup or box.

Foamie Shapes and Sequins for Spring Art: Preschool, Pre-K

I got these Easter sequins above in a big pack at Hobby Lobby and they were very inexpensive, plus all of their Easter items were 40% off. They have flowers, bunnies, and eggs, and I think they can be used even after Easter. Many foamies work well for Spring. I found insects, frogs and turtles, and flowers.

Add Stencils to Your Spring Art Center

Stencils are fun for kids to use and are great for fine motor. I found these in a craft store.

Spring Stencils for Art Center: Preschool, Pre-K

Add Cupcake Papers to Your Spring Art Center

Cupcake papers make cute flower art, or let the kids come up with their own ideas. Cupcake papers come in so many colors and designs. You could even cut them in half or in fourths for kids to use. These are the mini cupcake papers, but you could also use the regular size or both.

Spring Art with Cupcake Papers

Add Crepe Paper (Party Streamer) to Your Spring Art Center

Crepe paper is a fantastic and inexpensive art material that children love to create with! I keep crepe paper in my art center all year, I just vary the colors by season or holiday. Children sometimes cut small pieces and other times cut longer pieces, and they make all kinds of things with it.

Spring Art with Crepe Paper Party Streamer

Spring Colored Markers and Crayons

Add Spring colored markers and crayons so the children’s pictures will have Spring colors. To get a variety of color hues, I got a pack of 50 Pip Squeak markers.

Spring Art Markers and Crayons

How to Make Spring Paint Colors

The same bright colors all year can get boring. Make pastel paints by adding some white to the basic colors. (In the Fall, I add brown to make the bright paints look Fallish as you can see here.)

How to Make Spring Paint Colors

How to Make Spring Paint Colors

How to Make Spring Paint Colors

What do you add to your art center in the Fall? Share your ideas in the comments below!

Paintbrush clipart by Scrappin Doodles.

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  1. Jessica Gallagher says

    April 5, 2018 at 7:23 am

    Thanks so much for all your creative ideas!

    You are a blessing!

    All the best,

    Jessica Gallagher 💐😊

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  2. Sharon McDonald says

    April 5, 2018 at 8:55 pm

    I love this! Thank you for always providing fresh new ideas!

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    • Karen Cox says

      April 6, 2018 at 6:40 pm

      Thanks Sharon!

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  3. Chandra says

    April 6, 2018 at 6:18 am

    Awesome Thank you!

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  4. Sonia says

    April 6, 2018 at 8:32 am

    Great ideas. I have cupcake papers that are really colourful. I will certainly add them to my art projects.

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  5. Elaine says

    April 7, 2018 at 9:00 am

    Great ideas as always, thank you! I can’t believe I never thought to add white paint to the regular colours…such a great idea:-)

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  6. Tracie Fadely says

    April 8, 2018 at 8:28 pm

    I love the ideas that you post! Thank you!!

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  7. yolanda says

    April 27, 2018 at 11:45 am

    I love all your activities it really help me a lot!!

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  8. Suzette M says

    March 27, 2022 at 10:54 am

    I absolutely LOVE all of your learning and art ideas!!! I use most all of them. Thank you!!!

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