Making crafts with flowers can be a pleasurable activity for kids to engage in. Here are half a dozen creative ideas for flower crafts that children will find enjoyable to make. Each project highlights using blooms in a different way while fostering your kids’ fine motor skills and appreciation for nature’s beauty.
Tissue Paper Bouquet
This craft allows children to design their own bouquet using tissue paper “petals” that they cut out. Have kids select tissue paper in an assortment of colors. Then supply child-safe scissors for snipping out free-form shapes and sizes of petals. Children can glue several petals together in overlapping layers to resemble actual flower heads. Add pipe cleaners or green tissue paper “stems” underneath petals before gluing them onto craft sticks or floral straws to resemble flower stems. Older kids may enjoy trying to cut out specific petal patterns for roses, daisies, or tulips. Display the homemade bouquets in a vase for a colorful decoration.
Flower Mat Printing
Youngsters can make unique art by printing with real flowers. Look for unused flowers in the garden or pick up a small pot of cheap blooms from the supermarket or your local florist in Wilmette IL. Help the kids gently rub the petals onto a sheet of construction paper to transfer the floral patterns. They may wish to press several blooms together or print individual flowers. Once dry, the flower-patterned papers make for beautiful posters, cards, or framed artwork to hang. Kids learn about flower anatomy while making one-of-a-kind crafts.
Daisy Chain Headbands
On warm days, children might enjoy this flower crown activity. Gather some daisy or dandelion flowers from the grass. Show kids how to gently pull off the white petals and green stems, leaving just the yellow center discs. Then have them string several center “buttons” onto a strip of yarn, pipe cleaner, or ribbon to create a daisy chain necklace. Once long enough, the chains can be shaped into circles to wear atop their heads like fashionable flower crowns! Making the chains is a good fine motor exercise as well.
Tie-Dyed Tulips
Provide cups of water, food coloring, and several tulip flowers for this colorful craft. Children dip the end of each flower stem into a cup of water mixed with a drop or two of food coloring. The water will travel up through the stem and “tie-dye” the pale tulip petals in different hues. Leave the dyed blooms to dry, then glue or tape stems into notebooks, cards, or frames for a piece of one-of-a-kind floral artwork. This demonstrates how flowers absorb water and nutrients.
Crown of Flowers
A floral crown is always a festive craft that kids love making. Gather wildflowers, fake flowers, leaves, or dyed pasta in an assortment of colors. Provide pipe cleaners or floral wire for bending and connecting the items into a circle shape. Kids can personalize their crowns with extra decorative touches like beads, feathers, or stickers. Wearing their handmade crowns is a fun way to feel like royalty!
Whether you need flowers for craft, Mother’s Day, a birthday, or just because, Morning Glory Flower Shop- your Glenview florist has you covered. We offer a wide selection of pre-made bouquets and also custom designs if you have something specific in mind.
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