Children will bloom with creativity when making these seasonally inspired crafts.

Crafty young gardeners will love celebrating the arrival of spring with a tissue cherry-blossom tree.

Gather branches that have fallen outside; let dry, if necessary. Cut out 2-inch squares of pink tissue, pinch tightly in the middle to create blooms, and affix them to branches with white glue. Display in a tall container, such as a canning jar, with the lid's center removed.

Coaxed open by raindrops, umbrellas bloom like flowers in spring. Your child can turn his or hers into the prettiest of them all by painting it with a fanciful pattern.

Your little crafter will love decorating with these blossoming tissue- and crepe-paper flowers.

Young gardeners can use eggshells as pots to start seeds and coffee-stirrer tags to foretell what will pop up where this spring. Plant seeds according to package instructions, and nestle planters in an egg carton on a sunny windowsill, where they can be watered easily.

With a fun-to-make portable checkboard, kids will have a game to play on any rainy spring day.

Kids will love decorating Easter eggs with bright, homemade stickers. They can choose images from wrapping paper or magazines and cut out along outlines, or punch shapes from decorative papers using a craft punch.

Kids will love making these crepe-paper May Day baskets in celebration of spring.

Kids can make fun, floral stamps with a pencil eraser.

Just press the eraser into an ink pad, and stamp polka dots onto paper. An adult can also cut the eraser with a utility knife to create different looks. We stamped colored kraft paper and blank card stock, and added stems to flowers with a green pencil.

With some guidance from an adult, kids can savor the flowers blooming all around them with a pressed pansy project.

Let kids help make floral favor bags for the guests at their spring party.

Have kids celebrate the new season by making a sailboat using a handful of household supplies.

Cut decorative paper into a right triangle, with the bottom shorter than the vertical edge. Punch three holes along vertical edge. Weave a drinking straw through the holes. Lodge the end of the straw into a ball of Play-Doh, and affix the sail to the top side of a coffee-can lid.

Kids will love making bright, marbleized eggs right before Easter.

An easy-to-make clothespin barnyard is fun for kids to put together in or outdoors.

To make animals, first fold white paper in half, and draw on one side, aligning bottom of animal with the fold. Cut around the animal (do not cut fold), and redraw on the other side. For legs, clip on 2 clothespins -- use small ones for a squat creature, like a duck, and big ones for a cow.

Kids can turn a plain white shirt into the perfect spring outfit by decorating it with painted potato stamps made from flower-shaped cookie cutters.