Celebrate National Tulip Day and spring blooms with these colorful tulip crafts for kids! Make tulips out of paper, cotton pads, even clothespins!

A virus is generally a bad thing, whether it affects humans, computers or plants. However, there was a time when a virus actually turned into something beautiful – in 17th-century Netherlands!

Tulips were a big deal in the country then, called ‘tulip mania’. Suddenly, a virus infection broke out among the flowers, creating blooms that had beautiful variegated patterns. Today, these ‘infected’ flowers are quite rare, and they’re named after the master artist, Rembrandt!

With Tulip Day coming up on 13th May, we think it’s a good time to celebrate these flowers that have captured the attention of humans for centuries. So here are 15 bright and colorful tulip crafts for kids of all ages to try!

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15 Colorful Tulip Crafts for Kids

1. Gorgeous DIY Tulip Card for Kids

This tulip card is a lovely option for Mother’s Day, and since the flower occupies the entire front, you can use the space inside to write your message.

2. Tulip Corner Bookmark Craft

Imagine how fun it would be to open your book to see a pretty little flower blooming from the corner of your page! This corner bookmark is a great choice to mark your place in your spring reads.

3. Easy Origami Tulip Craft

Japan meets the Netherlands in this fun craft where we make Origami tulips! This is a simple Origami craft that’s ideal for beginners to this ancient art of paper folding.

4. Printable Tulip Playdough Mat

If you’re looking for tulip crafts for kids under the age of 4, this printable playdough mat is a great choice. All you need is playdough in two colors – green and a bright color – and you’re all set to roll!

5. T is for Tulip Coloring Page

Here’s another fun printable for the little ones – an alphabet coloring page! Our full set includes sheets for all the other letters of the alphabet, and we had to choose tulips when it came to ‘T’!

6. Cotton Pad Tulip Craft

How can you turn cotton pads into tulip crafts for kids? Well, Ocean Child Crafts shows us how easily this can be done, and we love how it’s turned out!

7. 3D Paper Tulip Craft

We love 3D crafts over here at Artsy Craftsy Mom, and that’s why we love this project from I Heart Crafty Things! This is so pretty, it would make a lovely piece of spring wall decor!

8. Tulip Basket Papercraft

Tulips are an integral part of Persian culture too, and they often feature in designs woven into those gorgeous Persian carpets. Let’s try some weaving of our own too, with a paper weaving tulip basket from The Craft Train!

9. Field of Tulips Q-tip Painting

Tulips are synonymous with Dutch culture, and it’s no wonder – they have one of the biggest tulip gardens in the world, the Keukenhof gardens! Projects with Kids tries to recreate the beauty of the garden in this art project.

10. Bamboo Fork Tulip Craft

Who would ever think that bamboo forks could be turned into tulip crafts for kids? Well, we’re glad Ocean Child Crafts did, so that we now have a fun craft to try!

11. Cupcake Liner Tulip Craft

I Heart Crafty Things brings us an easy tulip craft that’s great for preschoolers. All you need are plain colorful cupcake liners and a large sheet of cardstock or thick craft paper.

12. DIY Paper Tulips

Flower crafts are fun to make, and we love these paper tulips from Easy Foldable Creations because they look so much like the real thing! You can even put them into a vase and create a little vignette around it.

13. Handprint Tulip Mother’s Day Cards

Handprint crafts are among the cutest things to make on Mother’s Day, and when the kids are all grown up, Mom will love looking back at how small those hands were! Our Kid Things shows us how to create an adorable keepsake with a tulip theme.

14. Toilet Paper Roll Tulips

One Little Project uses the ever-versatile cardboard paper roll to create tulip crafts for kids, and we’re loving it! The good part is that these tulips can stand on their own, and with multiple tulips, you can create your own tulip garden!

15. Clothespin Tulip Craft

We love using unconventional materials to create crafts, and that’s why we love what The Best Ideas for Kids has done here with clothespins and craft paper!

Aren’t these tulip crafts for kids really pretty and easy on the eye? We love them all and can’t wait to try them out – every single one of them! Of course, you don’t have to do that; simply pick a few that really caught your eye, and then try them. If that gets you energized, go ahead and tackle the entire list!

If you’d like to check out more flower crafts, you’ll love these: