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Beautiful Tulip Suncatcher Craft for Spring

March 12, 2020 by OneMommy

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!

simple coffee filter suncatcher craft for spring

 

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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.

how to make a coffee filter suncatcher

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.

flower suncatcher -- kids tulip craft

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.

coffee filter suncatcher for spring

I think my favorite is this tie-dyed coffee filter suncatcher.  I love the bright splotches of color and how they mix together.

how to make colorful coffee filter suncatchers for spring

 

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.

tie-dye suncatcher -- colorful kids craft for spring

 

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You may also enjoy:
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  • Simple Seashell Art Activity 
  • 20 Watermelon Crafts & Activities 
  • Awesome Camp Crafts for Summer 

Originally published May 6, 2018.

Filed Under: Kids Crafts Tagged With: flower craft, suncatcher

Comments

  1. Clover says

    June 21, 2018 at 7:51 am

    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.

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