April Showers Umbrella Craft For Kids
Rain Rain Go Away and Come Back Another Day! April showers are around the corner and what better way for kids to pass the time while cooped up inside than making this cute umbrella craft. Perfect for preschooler and young learners this craft promotes fine motor skills and motives kids to focus attention. All the supplies can be found at your local Dollar Store or chain retailer.
Materials
2-Paper plates
Red, orange, yellow, green, and blue craft paint
Foam paint brush
Brown cardstock
Blue tissue paper
Scissors
Hot glue/hot glue gun or Elmer’s glue
Directions
1. Cut your paper plate in half
2. Squirt your paint onto another paper plate for a disposable palette
3. Use your foam paint brush and paint a rainbow onto your plate starting with your red paint, then orange, yellow, green, and blue, and let dry
4. While your plate is drying, cut a candy cane shape from your brown paper
5. Crinkle your blue tissue paper and cut into 2″ strips
6. Once your paint dries, turn your plate over and glue your brown candy cane shaped handle onto the back center.
7. Now glue your blue tissue paper strips on each side of the handle
8. Turn your umbrella over and it’s ready to display!
Enjoy!
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That is so cute. I would love to do this craft with my youngest son!
I love this! I do a theme every month in my house and now I am combing May and April and my theme is “April Showers Bring May Flowers”. Adorable – good project for teachers with their students, too!
What a super adorable and oh-so simple craft idea for kids! April showers is definitely the proper sentiment, especially here in IL the past few days. Today we haven’t had any rain yet (knock on wood) but it really LOOKS like it could storm any minute.
This a great idea for entertaining kids when the spring weather doesn’t want to cooperate. I love the idea of making bright, colorful rainbows for April Showers.
I bet the kids would have a fun time doing that! The instructions are easy and I love that it’s a rainbow, kids love rainbows! Thanks for sharing this lovely craft idea. It’s so nice!
Oh I love this! This is a great indoor craft for the kids to work on. I love how you did the rain!
This is such a cute craft for kids!! I love it!! It’s so bright and colorful and perfect for spring.
aw this is sos cute my daughter loves crafting she’ll totally love this and put inside her bedroom for display it looks very colourful and nice
These looks so a fun activity that kiddos would love them for sure. For sure my son would loved this crafty activities. Such a great idea.
Nice craft for kids. This will totally make them busy. Great for summer activity.
This is a fun project for the kids and to keep them busy. I would love to try this with my kids.
What a cute craft for kids! Love it!
What a great art and craft idea. This wuld be a great project!
This is a great idea for the kids that have the rain blues.
This is such a cute, fun idea! I love fun little projects like this to do with the kiddos!
What a fun thing to do! This is a great bonding activity with kids.
This is very cute! My kids will love to make this! They love making rainbows and doing crafts.