20 February Crafts for Preschoolers (Easy Ideas)

Start here: three February crafts that always work

Tissue paper heart suncatcherTissue and contact paper, a three does it aloneFingerprint heart cardTwo fingerprints make a heart, a ten minute cardPaper plate groundhog puppetDot markers and a plate, no paint to wipe

20 February crafts for preschoolers, with pictures

1. Fingerprint heart card

The child presses two fingerprints at an angle to make little hearts across the front of a card.

You need: 1 piece of white cardstock folded as a card, red washable paint, pink washable paint

How to make it

1. Fold the cardstock in half and lay it closed with the front facing up.
2. Dab your child's fingertip in paint and press it on the card at an angle. Press a second print next to it so the two meet at the bottom in a V. That is one heart.
3. Make more hearts in red and pink, leaving white sapce between them.
4. Let the paint dry before opening the card.

2. Handprint penguin

The child prints or traces a black hand as the penguin body, then adds a white belly, eyes, beak and feet.

You need: black paint, white paper, 2 small googly eyes, orange paper, glue, light blue paper

How to make it

1. Paint your child's hand black. Press it in the middle of the paper with the fingers together pointing up and the thumb out to the side. Let it dry.
2. You cut a small white oval and glue it on the palm as the belly.
3. Glue the 2 eyes on the fingers above the belly. Cut a small orange triangle and glue it below them as a beak.
4. Cut 2 small orange feet and glue them right below the palm.

3. Tissue paper heart suncatcher

The child sticks pink and red tissue squares onto contact paper inside a heart frame for the window.

You need: red paper, clear contact paper, small pink and red tissue paper squares

How to make it

1. You cut a red paper heart with a smaller heart cut out of the middle.
2. Peel the backing off the contact paper and lay it sticky side up. Stick the frame onto it.
3. Your child presses tissue squares onto the sticky paper inside the opening until it is filled.
4. Trim the extra contact paper around the frame. Tape it in a window.

4. Paper plate flag

The child paints red stripes on a paper plate and adds a blue corner with star stickers or fingerprints.

You need: 1 white paper plate, red paint, blue paint, silver star stickers

How to make it

1. Your child paints red stripes straight across the plate, leaving white between them.
2. Paint a blue square in the upper left corner, over the ends of the top stripes.
3. Let the paint dry.
4. Stick silver stars on the blue square.

5. Pinecone bird feeder

The child spreads nut or seed butter on a pinecone, rolls it in birdseed and hangs it outside.

You need: 1 large pinecone, sunflower seed butter, mixed birdseed, 1 piece of twine

How to make it

1. You tie the twine around the top of the pinecone and knot it into a hanging loop.
2. Your child spreads seed butter over the scales of the pinecone.
3. Pour the birdseed on a plate. Your child rolls the pinecone in it until seeds stick all over.
4. Hang it outside from a branch.

6. Bee mine potato print

The child stamps a yellow potato half for a bee body, then adds stripes, wings and a heart trail.

You need: white paper, 1 potato, yellow paint, black marker, 2 small googly eyes, glue

How to make it

1. You cut a potato in half. Your child dips the cut side in yellow paint and presses it once in the middle of the paper, as the bee body.
2. Let it dry. Then draw 3 stripes across the body and 2 rounded wings on top.
3. Glue 2 googly eyes on the right end.
4. Draw a dotted loopy line trailing to the left with one small heart at its end.

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7. Fork painted fireworks

The child stamps a fork dipped in bright paint outward from a centre on black paper to make bursting fireworks.

You need: 1 sheet of black paper, 1 fork, red, blue and yellow paint, gold glitter

How to make it

1. Dip the back of the fork in paint.
2. Your child presses it again and again on the black paper, prints pointing outward from one centre point, to make a round burst.
3. Make more bursts in the other colours.
4. Sprinkle gold glitter over the wet paint.

8. Groundhog headband

The child colours a groundhog face and it is attached to a paper strip to wear as a headband.

You need: a round groundhog face drawn on white cardstock, brown crayon, pink crayon, 2 long green paper strips, glue stick

How to make it

1. Your child colours the face brown, and the nose and the insides of the ears pink.
2. You cut out the face.
3. Glue the 2 long green strips together end to end with a short overlap to make one band.
4. Glue the face over the join in the middle of the band.

9. Heart name craft

The child glues paper hearts in a row, one letter of their name on each, in the right order.

You need: coloured paper, 1 long strip of white paper, black marker, glue stick

How to make it

1. You cut one paper heart for each letter of the name, in different colours.
2. Write one big letter on each heart with the marker.
3. Lay the strip flat. Your child glues the hearts along it from left to right in name order.

10. Paper lantern

The child decorates a sheet of paper, it is folded and snipped along the fold, then rolled and a handle added.

You need: red construction paper, 1 strip of red paper, gold star stickers, gold marker, clear tape

How to make it

1. Fold the red sheet in half lengthwise. You snip straight lines from the fold toward the open edge, stopping before the edge.
2. Unfold it and roll it into a standing tube.
3. Tape the red strip across the top as a handle.
4. Your child sticks gold stars on the top and bottom bands and draws a wobbly gold line along the top.

11. Groundhog chalk shadow

The child holds a groundhog cut-out on black paper, rubs chalk round its edge and lifts it to reveal a shadow shape.

You need: 1 sheet of black paper, white chalk, cardstock

How to make it

1. You cut a chubby sitting groundhog from cardstock.
2. Hold the cut-out down in the middle of the black paper. Keep your finger on it so it stays in place.
3. Your child scribbles white chalk all around it, starting each stroke on the cardstock and dragging outward.
4. Rub the chalk with the flat of the fingers into a soft hazy cloud.
5. Lift the cut-out away to show the black groundhog.

12. Toilet roll groundhog

The child draws a face on a pinched brown tube, adds paper ears and wraps fringed green paper round the bottom as grass.

You need: 1 toilet paper roll, brown paint, brown paper, 2 googly eyes, green paper, black marker, glue

How to make it

1. Your child paints the roll brown. Let it dry.
2. Pinch the top of the roll inward from two sides so two rounded flaps meet as a head.
3. You cut 2 brown half circles. Glue them on top as ears and the googly eyes near the top front.
4. Draw a nose, 2 front teeth and whisker dots below the eyes with the marker.
5. Cut a green strip and snip a fringe along one long edge. Glue it around the bottom with the fringe pointing up as grass.

13. Paper plate Abraham Lincoln

The child turns a plate into Lincoln's face with a tall black paper hat and a torn paper or cotton beard.

You need: 1 white paper plate, black paper, black marker, glue

How to make it

1. You cut a tall black top hat with a flat brim. Glue it at the top edge of the plate.
2. Your child tears black paper into pieces.
3. Glue the torn pieces along the bottom rim and up both sides of the plate as a beard.
4. Draw 2 dot eyes and a small smile in the middle with the marker.

14. Paper plate dragon twirler

The child paints a paper plate, it is cut into a spiral and a dragon head is glued to the end so it spins when hung.

You need: 1 paper plate, green paint, green paper, red paper, 2 googly eyes, 1 short piece of string, tape and glue

How to make it

1. Your child paints the plate green. Let it dry.
2. Cut the plate in one long spiral from the rim to the middle.
3. Cut a green oval and glue it on the outer end as the head, with 2 googly eyes and a small red paper flame at the tip.
4. Tape the string to the middle of the spiral.
5. Hold up the string and watch the dragon twirl.

15. Pop-up cup groundhog

The child pushes a groundhog on a stick up and down through a hole in a decorated paper cup burrow.

You need: 1 paper cup, green paper, brown paper, white paper, 1 craft stick, black marker, glue

How to make it

1. You cut a green strip and snip a fringe along one edge. Your child glues it around the cup as grass.
2. Cut a brown oval head with 2 small round ears. Your child draws 2 dot eyes and a nose on it.
3. Cut a small white rectangle and glue it under the nose as teeth.
4. Glue the head to the top of the craft stick.
5. Cut a slit in the bottom of the cup. Push the stick through it so the head pops up above the rim.

16. Toilet roll dragon

The child covers a tube, adds pom pom eyes and nostrils, and glues tissue streamers in one end to blow as fire.

You need: 1 toilet paper roll, green construction paper, 4 green pom poms (2 large, 2 small), 2 googly eyes, red, orange and yellow tissue paper, glue

How to make it

1. Wrap the roll in green paper and glue it. Lay it on its side.
2. Glue the 2 large pom poms side by side on top at the back end, with a googly eye on each.
3. Glue the 2 small pom poms side by side on top at the front end as nostrils.
4. Cut tissue strips and glue them inside the front opening so they stream out as fire.

17. Paper bag valentine holder

The child decorates a paper bag with hearts and stickers and laces yarn through the sides to carry valentines.

You need: 1 brown paper lunch bag, red, pink and purple paper, small heart stickers, 1 piece of red yarn, hole punch, glue

How to make it

1. Lay the bag flat with its plain front facing up and the opening at the top.
2. You cut 3 paper hearts. Your child glues them in a row on the front.
3. Stick small heart stickers around the hearts.
4. Punch 2 holes near the top edge. Thread the yarn through them and knot it at each hole so it makes a handle.

18. Lucky red envelope

The child folds a red paper template into an envelope, decorates it with gold and tucks a paper coin inside.

You need: red construction paper, gold crayon, gold star stickers, gold paper, glue stick

How to make it

1. Fold a small envelope from red paper and glue its sides.
2. Your child draws gold swirls on the front and sticks on gold stars.
3. Cut a round gold coin. Your child slips it into the envelope so its top edge peeks out of the opening.

19. Paper plate groundhog puppet

The child colours a plate brown with dot markers, adds ears, eyes, teeth and a nose, and tapes it to a stick.

You need: 1 white paper plate, brown dot marker, brown paper, 2 googly eyes, black paper, white paper, 1 craft stick and glue

How to make it

1. Your child colors the plate brown with the dot marker, dot after dot.
2. You cut 2 brown half circles. Glue them at the top as ears and the 2 googly eyes near the middle.
3. Cut a black nose and 2 white rectangles. Glue the nose below the eyes and the rectangles under it as front teeth.
4. Glue the craft stick to the back at the bottom as the handle.

20. Craft stick log cabin

The child glues craft sticks in rows on paper to build Lincoln's log cabin and adds a paper roof and door.

You need: 8 craft sticks, brown paper, dark brown paper, yellow paper, light blue paper, glue

How to make it

1. Draw a pencil line on the light blue paper as a guide for the bottom log.
2. Your child glues the 8 craft sticks flat, one directly above the other, ends lined up, to make the wall.
3. You cut a brown triangle and glue it across the top as the roof.
4. Cut a dark brown rectangle and a yellow square. Glue the rectangle on the wall as the door and the square beside it as the window.

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February crafts for 3 year olds

Two of these a young three can do almost alone: Tissue paper heart suncatcher, Fork painted fireworks. No exact cutting, no small pieces, and the glue stick does the rest. For the others, you cut and they glue.

Fitting February crafts into the month

First week, groundhogs. The paper plate groundhog puppet uses dot markers, so there is no paint to wipe up, and a three year old can do it alone. The pop-up cup groundhog is the one children play with afterward.

Second week, hearts. The fingerprint heart card needs two fingers and one ink pad or a dab of paint, and dries in minutes. The heart name craft is the one for a four or five year old: one letter per heart, glued in order.

Around Presidents' Day, the craft stick log cabin and the paper plate Lincoln. Both need glue and craft sticks or paper, no paint. The handprint penguin and paper lantern cover the cold weeks in between.

The valentine holder goes to preschool for the class exchange. The heart suncatcher goes in a window, and the groundhog headband gets worn, so make it the day you plan to look for a shadow.

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