Inside: Colorful coffee filter crafts your kids can make this spring using markers, coffee filters and a spray bottle!
If your kids are like my kids, they love to play with water. If so, then let them make crafts and spray water at the same time. These fun and colorful spring coffee filter crafts are the perfect way to do that.
Read on for step by step instructions for 7 coffee filter crafts that represent spring. Make sure to allow your kids to complete most of the steps independently. Supervise and assist when necessary. Most importantly, have fun!
#1 Butterfly Coffee Filter Craft
Supplies:
- Coffee Filter
- Clothespin
- Pipe Cleaner
- Markers
- Paper Towel
- Spray bottle filled with water
Directions:
- Use markers to either make a design on the coffee filter or color various colors on the coffee filter.
- Place the colored coffee filter on a paper towel.
- Lightly spray the coffee filter with the spray bottle of water until the entire coffee filter is damp. The goal is to make sure that the entire coffee filter is wet, but not soaked. The moisture should cause the colors on the coffee filter to bleed into one another.
- Leave the coffee filter on the paper towel and set it aside for a half hour or so until it is dry.
- After the coffee filter is dry, scrunch it into a butterfly shape by pulling the center top of the filter and the center bottom of the filter together in the middle.
- Secure the scrunched middle with a clothespin.
- Attach a pipe cleaner to the top of the clothespin to represent an antenna.
#2 Flower Coffee Filter Craft
Supplies:
- Coffee filters
- Markers
- Construction paper
- Spray bottle filled with water
- Paper towel
- Cupcake liners
Directions:
- Color a colorful design on the coffee filter using markers.
- Use a green marker to color a second coffee filter.
- Place each coffee filter on a separate paper towel.
- Lightly spray the coffee filters with the spray bottle filled with water.
- Set aside the paper towels with the coffee filters on them until the coffee filters are dry.
- After the coffee filters are dry, use scissors to cut the edge of the coffee filter to resemble a flower.
- Glue a cupcake liner in the middle of the first coffee filter to represent the middle of the flower.
- Cut a stem out of green construction paper.
- Glue the stem to the base of the back side of the flower.
- Cut out 4-5 leaves from the second coffee filter.
- Glue the leaves on the stem.
#3 Umbrella and Raindrops Coffee Filter Crafts
Supplies:
- Coffee filters
- Markers
- Construction paper
- Pipe cleaner
- Spray bottle filled with water
- Paper towel
- Glue sticks
Directions:
- Cut a coffee filter in half.
- Color a colorful design on one of the coffee filter halves.
- Use blue or purple (more than one shade if possible) markers to make a colorful design on the other half of the coffee filter.
- Place each coffee filter half on a separate piece of paper towel.
- Use the spray bottle filled with water to lightly spray each half of the colored coffee filter.
- Set aside the paper towels with the coffee filters on them until the coffee filter is dry.
- After the coffee filters are dry, cut raindrop shapes out of the blue colored coffee filter.
- Glue the other coffee filter half onto a piece of construction paper to represent an umbrella.
- Glue the raindrop shapes around the umbrella to represent rain.
- Cut out boots shapes from construction paper if desired to place under the umbrella or place a pipe cleaner under the umbrella for a handle.
#4 Rainbow Coffee Filter Craft
Supplies:
- Coffee filters
- Red, orange, yellow, green, blue and purple markers
- Spray bottle filled with water
Directions:
- Cut a coffee filter in half and place it with the flat side down to represent a rainbow.
- Use the markers to color a rainbow in the order of the colors of the rainbow. Think ROYGBIV to remember the order. (Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo and Violet).
- Place the completed rainbow on a paper towel.
- Use a spray bottle of water to lightly spray the colored coffee filter to mute the colors together for a tie dye effect.
- Set aside the paper towel with the coffee filter rainbow on it until the rainbow is dry.
#5 Easter Egg Coffee Filter Craft
Supplies:
- Coffee filters
- Markers
- Scissors
- Glue
- Spray bottle filled with water
Directions:
- Put some glue on the top quarter of a coffee filter.
- Place the bottom quarter of a second coffee filter on the glue so that two coffee filters are glued on top of each other.
- Use different colors of markers to create and color an Easter egg design on the coffee filters.
- Place the colored coffee filters on a paper towel.
- Use the spray bottle to lightly spray the coffee filters.
- Set aside the paper towel with the coffee filters on it until they are dry.
- After the coffee filters are dry, cut the coffee filters to form the shape of an Easter egg.
#6 Kite Coffee Filter Craft
Supplies:
- Coffee filters
- Markers
- Scissors
- Glue
- Construction paper
- Yarn
- Spray bottle filled with water
Directions:
- Put some glue on the top quarter of a coffee filter.
- Place the bottom quarter of a second coffee filter on the glue so that two coffee filters are glued on top of each other.
- Glue a third coffee filter on the right quarter of the top coffee filter.
- Glue a fourth coffee filter on the right quarter of the bottom coffee filter and the bottom quarter of the third coffee filter, so that you have four coffee filters glued together.
- Use markers to color or make a design on the coffee filters.
- Use markers to color on a fifth separate coffee filter.
- Place the coffee filters that are glued together on one paper towel.
- Place the fifth coffee filter on a second paper towel.
- Use the spray bottle to lightly spray all the coffee filters.
- Set aside the paper towels with the coffee filters on them until the coffee filters are dry.
- After they are dry, cut the coffee filters that are glued together to form the shape of a kite.
- Cut out two thin strips of colored construction paper.
- Glue the first strip from the top point of the kite to the bottom point of the kite.
- Glue the second strip from the left point of the kite to the right point of the kite.
- Cut a piece of yarn that is about 6-8 inches long.
- Glue the yarn on the back of the kite at the bottom.
- Cut out 3-4 bow shapes from the fifth coffee filter.
- Space the bows apart from each other on the yarn and secure them with glue.
#7 Ladybug Coffee Filter Craft
Supplies:
- Coffee filter
- Red and black markers
- Black construction paper
- Googly eyes
- Black pipe cleaner
- Scissors
- Glue
- Spray bottle filled with water
Directions:
- Completely color the coffee filter with a red marker.
- Place the colored coffee filter on a paper towel.
- Use the spray bottle to lightly spray water on the coffee filter until it is completely damp.
- Set aside the paper towel with the coffee filter on it until the coffee filter is dry.
- Use a black marker to draw a line down the middle of the coffee filter.
- Cut out small circles from the black construction paper.
- Glue the black circles on to the paper to resemble dots on a ladybug.
- Cut out a small semi-circle shape from the black construction paper.
- Glue it on one edge of the coffee filter to represent the head of the ladybug or use a black marker to color the head.
- Glue googly eyes on the head.
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