Shona's Instant Plastic Flowers - These are great little flowers made from staws and plastic bags... and they were invented by a four year old! My four year old absolutely loved making them too! We experimented with all kinds of things once we got started with the idea. We recycled Walmart bags, grocery store bags, etc., used fancy scissors (you know, the ones that make designs when you cut with them), we even used colored tissue and coffe filters!

Baggie Butterflies - This craft was also send in by a visitor. Fill a sandwich bag with scraps of tissue paper, aluminum foil, or colored cellophane. Don't over fill. Gather the bag around the middle with a pipe cleaner to make the body and twist the ends to make the antennae.

In Like A Lion - A simple toilet paper tube lion. Print out either the black and white or the color template, cut out, and glue onto a toilet paper tube.

Paper Bag Windsocks - Cut the bottom off of a lunch sized paper bag and decorate any way you choose. Glitter, construction paper pieces, stickers, and tissue paper all work nicely. Create a handle for the windsock out of construction paper or use a piece of yarn tied to opposite sides of the top edge. Staple crepe paper streamers around the end of the bag opposite of the handle.

Egg Carton Tulips - Would Spring crafts with kids be complete if we didn't make tulips out of egg cartons? This link goes to a site where they do a good explanation and have great pictures of what they are "supposed" to look like.

Paper Plate Streamer Rings - I don't have a good title for this little craft, but the kids enjoyed playing with it. Cut the middle out of a paper plate so that you have a ring. You can decorate the ring if you want to, but it's really not necessary. Then staple crepe paper streamers around three quarters of the ring on the outside. The kids then hold onto the ring at the spot without any streamers and run in the breeze. You can also use ribbon, strips of paper, or yarn instead of streamers.

How To Make Balloon Plants - This is a very unique project where you actually grow radishes inside of a balloon. My kids would never eat a radish, so I'm going to try a different kind of seed to see if it will work.

Grow Birdseed - An anonymous visitor submitted this activity for Spring. Soak a sponge in water and put it in the middle of a plate with water. Sprinkle the sponge with birdseed (not sunflower seeds). Put the plate and sponge in a sunny location, keep water in the plate, and wait for the seeds to sprout.

Inkblot Butterfly - Fold a piece of construction paper in half and cut out a butterfly shape. Open it up and paint one side of the paper. Fold it over and rub lightly, then unfold to create the butterfly. Let dry and then you can glue it to a large craft stick or tongue depresser so the kids can play with it. You can also go a step further and glue on antennae.