Kids love to create.
A lot of times I will walk into the kitchen and find mine surrounded by pipe cleaners, glue sticks, colored paper bits, and pom-poms as they use their imaginations.
Open-ended craft time like that is important.
But my kids also love it when I suggest a kids craft.
So when my daughter found the coffee filters and started coloring them, I knew it was the perfect time to make a new coffee filter suncatcher. She adored this flower suncatcher craft, and I know your kids will, too!
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This simple spring craft has become one of our favorite spring rainbow crafts.
I hope your kids enjoy it, too. You may also enjoy these flower crafts.
Coffee Filter Suncatcher
Materials Needed:
- Coffee Filters
- Washable Markers
- Squirt Bottle
- Paper Towels
- Black Construction Paper
- Scissors
- Double Sided Tape
To make your own coffee filter sun catcher, use your washable markers to color your coffee filter. We discovered that wide markers work best.
Also, for the best results you want to make sure there is color on almost the whole filter.
Once the filter is completely colored, place it on several paper towels. The paper towels will reduce the mess.
Use a squirt bottle to spray the filter. (My son loves this one that looks like a squirt gun.) Almost immediately you will see the colors start to spread.
Once each filter has been sprayed, allow them to dry completely.
Flower Suncatcher Craft
To make the frame for a flower suncatcher, fold a piece of black construction paper in half. Cut the shape of half a tulip from the paper. Be sure your flower shape isn’t bigger than the coffee filters you used!
Then cut the same shape out again, leaving 1/4 inch or so of paper around the edge.
When you unfold the paper you have the outline of a tulip.
Once the coffee filters are dry, use very small pieces of double-sided tape to stick them to your paper tulip shapes. We tried using glue sticks to do this, but we found the tape worked better.
Use scissors to carefully trip off the excess coffee filter from your tulip craft.
Then hang them in a sunny window to enjoy.
I think my favorite is this tie-dyed coffee filter suncatcher. I love the bright splotches of color and how they mix together.
These colorful coffee filter suncatchers look beautiful hanging in the windows, which is why this flower suncatcher craft is one of our favorite kids spring crafts so far.
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Originally published May 6, 2018.
Clover says
I just love the blogs like this. I have 2 kids, son, and a daughter and they are 3 and 5 years old. So, they are naughty when they are bored. So, I just need blogs like this. I don’t have to buy them a new toy and I just love to make things. Thank you very much for sharing this with us.