10 Easy Sun Themed Crafts for Toddlers and Preschoolers

10 Easy Sun Themed Crafts for Toddlers and Preschoolers

Though it’s officially spring, it certainly hasn’t felt like it every day. Sure, sometimes the sun shines brightly but more often than not there’s cloudy skies to be found. We’ve taken it upon ourselves (we being Squeaker and I) to bring a little bit of sunshine indoors. We made our “You Are My Sunshine” craft for Mother’s Day this year and on that same day, we did three more sun themed crafts. Maybe we’ll turn this into a Sun and Moon unit in the future and use some of these sun crafts for preschoolers. For our part, we did the following three: Tissue paper sun (using pink, orange, and yellow tissue paper) hand and footprint sun (with yellow construction paper) Do a Dot marker sun…

Paper Plate Pumpkins

Paper Plate Pumpkins

We haven’t done too many Halloween or fall crafts with Squeaker this year though I’m not sure why. Fall is one of my favorite times of the year for many reasons. We’ll kick start that though next month with Thanksgiving, Advent, and Christmas crafts. And plenty of winter themed crafts as well since it seems that Squeaker loves winter and snow just as much as her daddy. But, for now, let’s get back to Fall! We did do a K-Cup crow that turned out pretty cute, I think. And my personal favorite was our handprint keepsake pumpkin. We also did two apple themed activities with our handprint and pom pom apple tree, plus the toilet paper roll apple stamping. So I suppose it wasn’t too…