Bulk buying spring crafts

Bulk buying spring crafts

With spring finally around the corner, it is important for SBMs to ensure that their school is prepared for the season to begin. A huge part of spring in schools is crafting and creating spring-themed art.

As the whole school will participate in spring crafts, bulk buying is needed to ensure that your school has plenty of art and craft supplies. To help you with what you will need, we have compiled a list of bulk buying spring crafts with examples of crafts you can get your staff to do across the school.

Coloured paper and card

A must-have bulk buy for your school ready for spring is coloured paper and card. These are a staple for most spring arts and crafts and are vital to stock up on.

There are a variety of different crafts that can be done to celebrate the start of spring that require coloured paper and card. Your school could make rain clouds out of white paper and blue card for the raindrops or paint a cherry blossom tree on some paper or card. There are multiple options your staff can choose to do with their students that use these essentials.

Bulk buying these essential materials ensures that your school has plenty of coloured paper and card to choose from. Plus, they won’t run out and should last your school throughout spring, so nothing stops them from crafting.

Paint

Paint is an essential craft and art material for the spring season. Lots of various art and crafting uses paint to complete the pieces, and painting is extremely popular for spring crafts. Bulk buying paint is needed for spring crafting in your school. Aim for various colours in a pack that reflect colours used for spring.

There are many paint-led activities for spring that your school can be encouraged to do. Students can try their hand at flower collages painting the end result to bring it to life. Or they could create watercolour flowers, cutting paper in the shape of daffodils and using watercolour paints to make them stand out. Paint is also extremely fun to use for bubble painting through a bubble wand with various spring colours. Suggest these examples to your staff if they are stuck on what spring crafts they want to do.

Tissue paper

Another popular craft material for spring is tissue paper and your school will need plenty of various colours in stock. Spring crafting is full of creating flowers as they come back up and other parts of nature, which tissue paper is great to use for. Ensure to stock up on spring colours so that your school has plenty throughout the season.

Tissue paper is versatile and can be used in plenty of different spring crafts. Colourful 3D flowers can be made by gluing scrunched-up tissue paper together. Task your school to make colourful flowers and suggest that the best ones from every class can be showcased on the school displays in the corridors. This is a perfect way to decorate your school to get people ready for spring. Plus, this encourages students to participate in crafting.

Another tissue paper craft your school can get involved in is creating chicks in their nest. This craft is perfect for Easter time, and again, you can use them in displays to decorate your school for Easter.

Pipe cleaners

Pipe cleaners are a craft material that often can be overlooked in schools. They come in use for the spring season though as they can be manipulated into shapes and make 3D crafts. These are perfect for creating spring flowers, so ensure that you buy them in bulk so your school doesn’t run out.

It is always best to invest in multi-coloured packs so that your school have a choice of colours. With spring being all about flowers, they will get used up in no time. Plus, pipe cleaners are great for a range of other spring crafts too.

Glitter & Gems

Spring is the time of year when glitter and gems are used a lot to complete crafts, so it is essential to have plenty in stock for the school to use. When it comes to bulk buying spring crafts, it is easy to forget about the little things that are needed. It’s important to buy the little extras in bulk so that they come in use during spring and can last into the summer. Doing this is more cost-effective as you don’t have to re-order these small items.

Glitter and gems can be used in any spring craft to add the finishing touches to the students’ work. They can be used on top of paint to create sparkly toilet roll tube rabbits for Easter. Or the finishing touches to a 3D card butterfly that can be used to decorate the hallways. They can even finish off paintings of blossom trees or fields with flowers; there’s always a need for these extras.

Glue

Most of these spring crafts can’t be done without glue. Glue is a craft supply that is always needed in schools, no matter the time of year. However, with the season being all about crafting, extra glue is essential. As spring is nearly here, it is best to buy glue in bulk now on top of what you may already have in stock. Otherwise, there could easily be a shortage when crafting starts.

Glue is perfect for all spring crafts especially when it comes to creating spring collages of meadows or flowers. Other crafts glue is needed for is egg-cup chicks, cotton wool lambs, 3D spring art, flower headbands and much more.

Be prepared for spring with our list of bulk buying spring crafts essentials. Check how much crafting stock your school has and ensure to keep on top of it before the season starts. Bulk buying helps you to save vital money as it reduces the chance of running low on supplies throughout spring. Plus, it ensures that your school can join in on the fun activities. Encourage your staff to incorporate plenty of crafts into their lessons and entice students with displays around the school of their work.

Want to get ahead with stock for summer? Read our blog on ‘how to plan for children’s art week’ to ensure that you are prepared for this huge summer activity with plenty of essential supplies.