Lilac crafts for kids

I love the sweet smell of lilacs in the spring time, but it always seems like the flowers last for such a short time. We wait through early spring and by the time they open it's usually hot enough that they don't last for long. So to savor the smell a little longer, I made up a batch of Lilac Scented Playdough! We still love a cooked playdough and used our basic cooked playdough recipe as a base for this batch. In addition to the regular ingredients I added in purple food coloring and lilac…

Fingerprint lilacs. Preschool children observed real lilacs and fingerprinted their own lilac.

Q-tip lilacs

If you are looking for easy and fun flower crafts for your little ones, look no more! I have 10+ flower crafts kids will love!

Lilac dot painting

This wonderful kids craft idea brings one of the most beautiful flowers alive! We made our paper lavender flowers on the front of a card, the perfect greeting card idea!

Bingo dotter lilacs. Toddler children stamped purple bingo dotters on a precut lilac flower.

Learn how to make a flowers with paper from this easy DIY tutorial. Here you will learn the technique to make them in any size you want.

Looking for an easy cotton bud painting idea for kids? How pretty are these cotton swab flower paintings of lilacs? Simply bundle together some Q-tips, dip in the paint and you can create these pretty cotton bud paintings in minutes. We think they’d make lovely Mother's day cards. #cottonbudpainting #cottonswabpainting #cottonbudflowers #cottonbudflowerpaintings #Qtippaintingflowers

canvas painting for beginners videos

This lilac is watercoloured using q-tips. I watched a video (link on my blog) where the artist groups together q-tips with an elastic band holding them together. She dips them into diluted ink and pounces them on her canvas to create beautiful flowers. I had to give it a try. I used just a few q-tips in each bundle as my card front is very small scale. I used a paint brush and watercolours to paint the stem and leaves. The lilac was painted with diluted re-inkers (blackberry bliss…

Paint with cotton swabs to create a beautiful q-tip flower painting! These quick and easy paintings are a great craft for spring and summer!

Q-TIP PAINTED HYANCINTHS 💜 Follow me @bestideasforkids for more fun activities for kids! 🦋 This one is so simple to do and I love the final result! Just for some q-tips together with an elastic....

Mother's Day art

Anyone who loves purple knows there is no better color around. These perfectly purple crafts for kids are so fantastic! Your kids are going to love playing with all this purple, and they going to

Follow this simple craft tutorial to make a simple paper pinwheel using supplies you can find around the house.

Rainy day? This snails craft is adorable, fun and easy so you can make it with your family. Customize it anyway you'd like to!