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Flower Crafts for Kids to Make

March 13, 2015 By Deirdre

Spring is the perfect time for creating flower crafts. These wonderful crafts for kids could be created to celebrate Easter, Earth Day or Mother’s Day. They would also be wonderful to give to a friend as “Get Well” or “You Are Thought Of” gift.

This collection features crafts from JDaniel4’s Mom and a number of others. I tried to select a wide variety of flowers! Some would be easy for young children to create and others would either mommy and me crafts or crafts for older children to do other their own.

Flower Craft for Kids from This Blog

How to Make Mother’s Day Flowers features directions on how to make three different kinds of flowers.

A daffodil with telephone book petals is a craft that allowed us to upcycle pages from the zillion of phone books we get each year.

Cupcake liner and doily flower with a Valentine’s Day theme could be made year-round. Red flowers such brighten a room.

Paper plate sunflowers were made after reading the book Sunflower House. Creating them was a great fine motor activity.

How to Make a Coffee Filter Poppy is a post I wrote for Veterans Day. We also make cork painted poppies to remember those who have served our country.

Flower Crafts for Kids From Others

Accordion Folded Spring Flower Collage by Make and Takes

Pool Noodle Bouquet from No Time for Flashcards

3-D Painting Daffodils from Fun at Home with Kids

Coffee Filter Flowers from Mama.Papa.Bubba

Rainbow Colored Cupcake Liner Flowers from I Heart Crafty Things

Melted Crayon Flowers from Home Grown Friends

Teach Mama created fun sparkly flowers that would brighten someone’s day.

Kitchen Counter Chronicle shows you how to make egg carton flowers.

Crafty Morning has made super cute 3-D doily flowers

The Nuture Store’s pinwheel daffodil looks like it would be really fun.

The Soda Bottle Flower found on Childhood Beckons is a guest post I wrote a few years ago.

I hope you have found some wonderful ways to bring the joy of spring into your home or classroom. There is just something wonderful about creating blooms in the spring.

If you make any of these ideas for crafts for kids to make, please leave me a comment below telling me about it or share a picture of it on my Facebook page.

Rosie Sprout’s Time to Shine- Read.Explore.Learn.

April 26, 2013 By Deirdre

JDaniel and I were browsing at the library last week when I noticed the book Rosie Sprout’s Time to Shine sitting on top of the shelves. I have been wanting to start some spring planting projects with JDaniel so, I took it down and added it to our library pile. It is a wonderful book. The librarian that set it up on the shelf deserves my thanks!

In the story Rosie Sprout’s Time to Shine Rosie isn’t the star of her class at school. Violet is the star and everyone else in the class agreed that she was. Well, everyone except Rosie. She was tired of hearing everyone praise Violet including Violet. Yes, she did everything well, but enough was enough.When everyone is asked to decorate a flower pot, Violet’s is the best decorated and Rosie contained a simple heart. Rosie and Violet are the first to have a sprout, but Violet shouts it out first. When Violets starts to be taller than Rosie’s, she can’t take it. Rosie has to push soil over top of it.

Rosie regrets her mistake when she finds out that Violet has the chicken pox and won’t be able to tend to her plant. That is when Rosie really shines. She is the best she can be and she is the best friend she can be. Rosie sings and tends to both her plant and Violet’s.

You will have to read Rosie Sprout’s Time to Shine to see what happens when Violet gets back from being sick. Just know that this really is Rosie’s time to shine.

What did we do to explore Rosie Sprout’s Time to Shine?

Number Recognition

JDaniel and I worked with homemade pea pods. Some of the peas had number represented by numbers. Some peas had numbers represented by dots. Some of the peas had numbers represented by triangles.

The goal was to put the three peas that belonged together in the same pod.

Letter and Sound Match

This pea pod letter and sound matching activity is just like the math pea pod activity. The goals was to find the three peas that belonged in the same pod together.

When pod had its three pods, it should have an uppercase letter, a lowercase letter, and an object that began with that letter. I was really pleased to see that JDaniel could match each of the letters quickly and find the right picture for each pod. He did change the game a little, but I will share that story with you next Wednesday. It deserves its on post.

Decorating a Flower Pot

JDaniel was asked to paint whatever he wanted to on this flower pot. Rosie was told to decorate her post anyway that she wanted to and I told JDaniel the same thing.

He really wasn’t into painting the afternoon I set out the paint and flower pot. He painted the jellyfishes bell shape and didn’t want to paint the tentacles. I talked him in to doing some if I did some too.

I wasn’t surprised that this pot as a jellyfish them. We read books about them everyday. You may remember I even made him a jellyfish mobile for his room.

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{Mother’s Day Craft} How to Make Paper Flowers

April 24, 2013 By Deirdre

How to Make a Paper Flowers for Mother's Day

A simple bouquet of flowers make a wonderful Mother’s Day gift. A simple bouquet of paper flowers crafted by their child or children will melt their hearts. I love to get Mother’s Day crafts from JDaniel so, I set out to show him how to make paper flowers. Wouldn’t you like to get this bouquet?We looked at three types of flowers. The first two were easy for him to construct and the third required fine motor skills that he hasn’t yet developed. I think older children would have no trouble constructing them.

We created (He and I) hand print lilies, origami tulips, and tissue paper mums. Let me walk you through the steps we went through to make make paper flowers

How to Make Paper Flowers

How to Make a Paper Hand Print Lily

Trace your child’s hand or have them trace their own.
Cut out the hand print.
Cut out the anther and stigma of the flower out of yellow construction paper.
Fold the thumb in and then fold bottom left hand side of the hand print up towards the thumb.
Wrap the end of the hand print that reaches past the folded thumb behind the hand.
Glue or tape it down.
Attach a stem made of green construction paper to the hand print lilly.

How to Make a Paper Tulip

Start by cutting a piece of scrapbook paper or wrapping paper into a square.
Then fold the square in half to make a triangle. Fold it so the fancy side of the paper is facing out.
Take the right hand corner and fold it up at an angle. It should be point to about 11 o’clock on the paper.
Then fold the left hand corner up towards about 1 o’clock on the paper. I hope the use of clock times isn’t confusing. I thought that thinking about where the hands would be on an analog clock would help you.
Add a green construction paper stem.

How to Make a Tissue Paper Mum

How to Make a Paper Flowers for Mother's Day

Place four sheets of tissue paper into a pile.Fold the tissue paper with a fan fold.
Place a pipe in the behind the center of the folded tissue. I like fold about 1/4 of the pipe cleaner over the to the front and then twist it around the long end of the pipe cleaner. The twist needs to be done tightly.
Use scissors to make thin cuts on both of the long ends of the tissue paper.
Slowly pull up each layer of tissue paper to the center on each side of the pipe cleaner.

While I am showing you how to make three different types of flowers, I think that you could easily make one type of flower. A single flower bouquet would be lovely.