20+ Spring Tissue Paper Crafts Kids Will Love

Spring is the perfect time to grab some tissue paper, clear off the table, and let kids get creative. If you’re looking for colorful, hands-on activities that keep little ones busy without a big mess, you’re in the right place. We’ve rounded up adorable spring tissue paper crafts for homes, classrooms, or storytime tables.

Want more ideas like these? Check out our complete list of tissue paper crafts for even more inspiration! Each idea uses simple supplies—just paper, glue, and imagination! Best of all, it sneaks in a little fine motor skill practice.

Collage of colorful spring crafts for kids made with tissue paper, including butterflies, bees, shamrocks, ladybugs, flowers, and a snail, using crumpled or layered paper techniques.

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Tissue Paper Ideas For Kids This Spring

From fluffy sheep to bright snails, butterflies, and even suncatchers, there’s something here for every age and ability.

Whether you’re crafting for Easter, Earth Day, or just because the sun’s finally shining, these projects are a cheerful way to welcome the season.

Sheep Tissue Paper

Children can make a fluffy sheep by gluing soft white tissue paper pieces onto a paper sheep shape for a fun woolly coat. Kids will love how puffy and cute their farm friend turns out, and it's an easy spring project they'll be proud to display.

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Tissue Paper Snail

Children press colorful tissue paper squares onto a snail's shell using a simple template to create a bright spiral pattern. This easy project is great for fine motor practice, and kids will enjoy making a cheerful snail pal with a rainbow-colored shell.

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Bleeding Tissue Paper Chick

Instead of using paint, this project has kids lay bits of special "bleeding" tissue paper on paper, spray them with water, and watch as the colors soak in to create a marbled yellow design. After it dries, that colorful paper is cut into a chick shape and decorated with wings and a beak – a magical process that lets kids create an Easter chick while keeping their hands primarily mess-free.

Also try: Chick Card Craft

Ladybug Tissue Paper

Bright red tissue paper pieces bring this ladybug to life as kids fill in its round wings and add a few black spots. It's a simple, tactile activity that feels like making a mosaic, and children will enjoy creating their lucky ladybug to celebrate springtime.

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Tissue Paper Symmetry Art Butterfly

This clever butterfly project doubles as a mini science experiment in art and symmetry. Kids place torn tissue pieces on one half of a piece of paper, spritz them with water, and then fold the paper to transfer the colors to the other side—creating a cool mirrored pattern for the butterfly's wings.

Unfolding the paper to reveal the design is exciting. After it dries, children cut out a butterfly shape and add antennae, ending up with a beautiful butterfly project and a fun lesson in symmetry.

Related: Butterfly Name Craft

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Tissue Paper Sunflower

Celebrate summer by crafting a bright sunflower using layers of yellow tissue paper petals arranged around a circle. A green craft stick works as the stem, making assembly simple and fun. Kids love how quickly it comes together—and the finished flower is sunny, cheerful, and ready to display.

Also try: Paper Plate Sunflower Craft

Chick Tissue Paper

Kids make a fuzzy little chick by sticking crumpled yellow tissue pieces all over a chick outline (using a handy printable template). It's an easy Easter or spring project that keeps small hands busy with tearing and gluing. The result is an adorable baby chick decoration that kids will be excited to show off.

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Tissue Paper Earth

Celebrate Earth Day by creating a mini planet Earth out of blue and green tissue paper. Little hands can tear up tissue into "land" and "water" pieces and glue them onto a paper circle; kids enjoy an easy, meaningful art because they get to make their own Earth and talk about taking care of our world.

Related: Torn Paper Earth Craft

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Lucky Shamrock Tissue Paper

Even the littlest leprechauns will have fun crumpling bits of green tissue paper to fill in a shamrock shape for St. Patrick's Day. This simple activity uses paper, glue, and tissue, but squishing and sticking each piece is satisfying for kids. The result is a festive clover decoration to bring them some "luck."

Also try: Fork Painted Shamrock Craft

Tissue Paper Bee

Yellow and black tissue paper turns a plain outline into a buzzing bumblebee with bold, textured stripes. This engaging spring project gets kids thinking about helpful pollinator insects as they glue on each colorful strip, and they'll enjoy making a friendly bee that looks ready to take flight.

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Tissue Paper Butterfly

This project uses folded tissue paper to form a butterfly's wings, creating a fan-like effect. Kids pick out their favorite tissue colors, help fold them into accordions, and then attach them to a butterfly body before adding fun extras like googly eyes and sparkly sequins. The process feels like magic as the folded tissue turns into enormous fluttery wings, and children will be proud to hang their colorful butterflies for all to see.

Related: Handprint Butterfly Craft

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Little Cloud Tissue Paper

Inspired by Eric Carle's Little Cloud book, this project lets kids create fluffy clouds in the sky. They stick white tissue pieces onto a blue paper background, forming a puffy cloud shape like in the story. It's a gentle, story-inspired activity that feels like illustrating a page from the book, and kids love making a soft cloud that can drift across their bedroom wall.

Tissue Paper Bunny

Get kids excited for Easter by helping them make a cute bunny covered in colorful tissue paper "fur." They glue soft bits of tissue onto a bunny template (ears and all), creating a textured rabbit that's simple to design and fun to touch. It makes a cute holiday decoration they'll love showing everyone.

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Rainbow Tissue Paper

With a rainbow template and many colorful tissue squares, kids can make a bright arc of color to celebrate spring. They glue each little piece to form the rainbow's stripes (and can even add cotton balls as fluffy clouds on the ends), creating a cheerful decoration. It's a hands-on way to practice colors and fine motor skills, and the finished rainbow looks so happy that it's sure to bring smiles.

Also try: Rainbow Card Craft

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Tissue Paper Sunflower

Kids can build a sunflower scene—petals, center, stem, leaves, and even a blue sky background by scrunching and gluing small pieces of tissue paper. It's a more involved project that keeps them happily busy, and the result is a significant, textured sunflower artwork bursting with bright summer colors.

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Tissue Paper Earth Day

Even toddlers can join this Earth Day activity by tearing and sticking pieces of tissue paper to create their own Earth. Using a simple circle as the base, kids place blue and green tissue bits like continents and oceans, making a little planet with their hands. It's quick, easy, and virtually mess-free.

Related: Earth Day Name Craft

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Seahorse Tissue Paper Beach Theme

Bring a bit of undersea magic to art time by using strips of tissue paper to make a vibrant seahorse. Kids glue wavy pieces of tissue onto a seahorse cut out (using a provided template) and watch as the purple, green, and blue layers create a scaly, ocean-colored pattern. This easy beach-themed project involves a little color learning and fine motor practice.

Also try: Seahorse Craft

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Tissue Paper Rainbow Suncatcher

This rainbow suncatcher shines in the window when kids layer tissue paper colors onto a clear, sticky surface. Using contact paper or another transparent sheet, children place bits of red, orange, yellow, and all the rainbow colors to form a translucent rainbow. It's a beautiful way to brighten a room; kids are thrilled to see their artwork glow in the sunlight.

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Tissue Paper Flower

In this stand-up project, a recycled cardboard tube finds new life as the sturdy stem for a bright tissue paper flower. Kids decorate the tube and then attach a big, blossoming top made from layers or bunches of colorful tissue paper, creating a flower that can stand on the table. It's a fun way to make a homemade bouquet for the classroom or home, and children will enjoy crinkling and fluffing the tissue petals to design their perfect flower.

Related: Flower Handprint Card Craft

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Shamrock Tissue Paper Suncatcher

Kids can create a shamrock-shaped "stained glass" decoration by filling a clover outline with bits of tissue paper and turning it into a suncatcher. This quick project is perfect for St. Patrick's Day – it's simple, inexpensive, and leaves you with a beautiful window ornament that brings a touch of Irish cheer.

Also try: Torn Paper Shamrock Craft

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Butterfly Suncatcher

Kids can create a vibrant butterfly suncatcher with a frame, contact paper, and tissue scraps. They tear or cut tissue and arrange it inside the outline, making a colorful mosaic. Once sealed, it becomes a dazzling window decoration that builds scissor skills!

Related: Butterfly Headband Craft

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Paper Tissue Hyacinth Flower Pots

Kids roll fringed strips of tissue paper to form the blossom of each hyacinth flower, then "plant" them in mini paper pots for an entertaining spring activity. They create these hyacinths using recycled paper tubes or cups as pots and stems by fluffing the cut tissue paper petals to look full and lush.

Also try: Flower Photo Preschool Craft

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Upcycled Easter Egg

Kids can turn a cereal box and tissue paper into a colorful Easter egg! Cut an egg shape, brush on glue, and press on tissue bits for a fun, textured design. Quick, easy, and perfect for using what you have at home!

Related: Paper Easter Egg Craft

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Tissue Paper Flowers

Children can create a bouquet of textured tissue paper flowers that pop off the page with a printable vase-and-flowers template. First, they color in the vase, then scrunch up small pieces of tissue paper and glue them onto each drawing petal and the flower centers. It's a fun combo of coloring and art that works for ages.

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