Make a beautiful April showers bring May flowers craft with kids to celebrate the beginning of spring. This coloring wheel spinner is great for kids of all ages.
Spring has sprung, and everything is blooming! It’s always a good time for kid art to be in full flower, and this April showers bring May flowers craft is a perfect nature craft for preschoolers, kindergartners and older kids.
This coloring project lets your young artists explore the rain and its results – rainbows and flowers! One half of the spinner represents April with its gloomy sky, covered in clouds. The other half is beautiful May with a colorful rainbow and plants making their way out of the ground.
To explore more rain-related art, check out our paper plate cloud craft and our paper plate rain cloud. They both use one of our favorite crafting material: paper plates. Use the free templates and make your own cloud crafts.
As for more flower craft ideas, we have created several throughout the years but the one who feels the best May flower craft is this paper plate flower garden craft.
What makes it rain?
Rain is part of the water cycle on earth. Water from the earth’s surface evaporates and rises into the atmosphere. As the water droplets cool, they condense into clouds. When the clouds are full of liquid water, they release rain (or snow)…and the cycle repeats.
Don’t let the rain scare you and your kids off. Go outside together, with or without an umbrella. Jump into puddles, look for the end of the rainbow, in case there is one up in the sky, observe what birds and animals do when it rains.
When you come back inside and after you have dried out, take out the coloring pencils and give this April showers bring May flower craft a try.
If you enjoy the craft, look at some other spinner wheels we have created, like this What grows in the garden? or Who lives in the ocean?
April showers bring May flowers craft
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Supplies:
- Spring spinner template
- White cardstock paper
- Colored pencils
- Paper fastener
- Hole punch
- Pencil
- Scissors
How to make a spring spinner
Start by printing the spinner and cover on white cardstock paper and cutting them out.
Color both the cover and the spinner.
Use a hole punch to make a hole in the middle of the cover. (where marked)
Use a pencil to make a hole in the middle of the spinner. (where marked)
Attach the spinner and cover together with a paper fastener.