Last Updated on February 2, 2025 by Masha Eretnova
If March is here we have officially made it through winter and are ready to welcome spring with more energy, sunlight, and even more amazing ideas for kids’ activities.
With paper crafts, basic painting ideas, and some gluing, we can actually work on kids’ fine motor skills, bilateral coordination, and imagination, learn colors, textures, and materials, and improve hand-eye coordination.
Make these March crafts at home or in a classroom, they work for kids of any age – from 2-year-old toddlers to preschoolers.
Amazing (And Easy) March Crafts For Kids
March is so much fun for crafting with kids!
Firstly, it is finally spring. And you can feel it in the air, maybe already picked some first flowers and just the mood (parenting through winter is no joke) is so much better. So there are tons of floral, spring-themed crafts here, but also, let’s not forget about Women’s Day and St Patrick’s!
I will share “neutral” activities for kids, including toddlers, and some St Patrick’s Day crafts too, but you can find more of golden coins and leprechaun crafts in this St Patrick Crafts post.
Cardboard Box Satchel
Easy, pastel-colored, and spring-inspired box satchels for kids to play with or collect rocks, twigs, and flowers.
Tutorial: Cardboard satchels
Egg Carton Rainbow Craft for Kids
A perfect way to use a recycled egg carton to make a colorful smiley rainbow and cloud craft.
Tutorial: Egg carton rainbow
Chicken Hand Print Craft
This easy tutorial will help you make cute hand-printed chickens, and it comes with a printable template.
Tutorial: Chicken Handprint craft
Fork Flower Painting For Kids
Easy painting idea for kids of any age and it is perfect as a play and educational activity in March and spring, in general. You will just need colors, Q-tips, and forks!
Tutorial: Fork flower painting
Read Also: 55+ Easy Spring Painting Ideas For Kids & Adults
Rainbow Cereal Paper Plate Craft
Colorful rainbow craft for kids that like to play with its breakfast and it is perfect to work on those motor skills and color learning.
Tutorial: Rainbow cereal craft
St Patrick’s Rainbow
Get ready for St Patrick’s Day with this easy paper craft made with tissue paper, some gold coins, a pot, and cotton balls. Super colorful rainbow with a cute cloud and a pot full of gold made of chocolate (now your kids will be onboard with it immediately!).
Tutorial: St Patrick Rainbow Craft
Check also: St Patrick’s Crafts For Kids & Toddlers
Bug Playdough Kid Craft
This fun activity is perfect for a rainy day! You just need some plastic bugs and DIY mud (playdough). Kids love the process of making the dough and then making these “fossils”
Tutorial: Bug playdough craft
Painting Daffodils with Toddlers and Preschoolers
Nothing is more March and the beginning of springtime than the first flowers. Daffodils are gentle and bright yellow, pretty flowers, but also easy to paint with younger children and will be perfect for Women’s Day.
Tutorial: Daffodils Painting Craft
Bee Sensory Bin
Sensory bins are great for preschoolers: they are fun but also useful for honing fine motor skills and creativity. You can make this bee-inspired bin in March, the kids who love little bugs will be kept occupied for long!
Tutorial: Bee sensory bin
Bunny Handprint Art
Cute little bunnies are great ideas to craft and paint not only for Easter! You just need cheap paint safe for handprints and little hands ready to get messy!
Tutorial: Bunny handprint craft
Butterfly Craft With Raised Salt Painting
This craft is cool to make from the very start is you need to prepare the painting mixture with some glue and salt – it’s like a science experiment for kids.
And then you can paint butterflies with any colors you want and they will be 3D! Not to worry, the tutorial comes with a template.
Tutorial: Butterfly raised salt painting
Torn Paper Bunny Craft For Kids
Just with some paper and glue, you can piece together some adorable bunnies. You can change up the colors and make as many bunnies as your kids want.
The tutorial comes with a free printable template too!
Tutorial: Torn paper bunny craft
Easy Pom Pom Sheep Craft
This fluffy craft with pom poms is great to encourage kids to learn farm animals (and some patience!) and will be perfect to do on a weekend in March.
Tutorial: Sheep craft for kids
Spring Dot Marker Pages
If you’re looking for a low-prep activity and a less messy one, dot painting crafts are a good idea. You just need to print some templates and have a pack of markers.
Tutorial: Dot Maker Pages
Galaxy Blot Butterfly Craft
Kids who are a bit older can try this butterfly craft – it has a fluffy butterfly body made of pom poms and colored wings inspired by galaxy colors.
I absolutely love butterfly parks, so if you and your kid are the same, it can also be an educational activity to remember what butterflies (colors) you saw at the park on the walk.
Tutorial: Galaxy Butterfly
Easy Frog Craft Activity for Kids
Kids of a certain age love all sorts of animals and crafting time can go beyond cats, puppies, and bunnies in March and spring months, in general.
And it is a great way to reuse toilet paper rolls!
Tutorial: Frog Craft
Easy Origami Basketball Paper Toy
If your kids love sports but we need to keep them (and their ball) outside our precious living room and they can’t yet fully play outside, let’s make this easy basketball toy: a ball and a basket all made of paper and some glue.
Tutorial: Basketball Paper Toy
Masha Eretnova, born in 1991, is a Buenos Aires-based certified teacher, artist, and member of the Professional Artist Association with 20+ years of personal painting journey.
She started painting and drawing very early and is now an international abstract artist and educator passionate about acrylic painting, gouache, and crafts.
Her works are part of international exhibitions and contests, including ArtlyMix (Brazil), Al-Tiba 9 (Spain), Exhibizone (Canada), Italy, and many more.
Besides her artistic pursuits, Masha holds a post-grad diploma in Teaching Film Photography and 2 music school diplomas: piano and opera singing.