Crafts: Spring Flowers

Looking to recycle some of that tissue paper you saved from gift bags? I can't be the only person who tries to fold it neatly to reuse for future presents or for crafts, can I?

Our children made these two beautiful flowers with tissue paper, construction paper, and glue.

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Materials 

• Construction paper or drawing paper
• Pencil
• White glue 
• Tissue paper 

Steps 

1. Gather all your materials.

2. Draw your flower onto your paper. You can draw it like I did or let your children draw it themselves.

3. After choosing the colors for the project, tear the tissue paper into strips and small pieces. Then crumble it a bit before gluing it to the paper.

4. Fill in all the white spaces with tissue paper to create a beautiful flower. 

OR 

If your children prefer our daughter's picture, you can skip the crumbling step and just glue the pieces of tissue paper onto the drawing paper. 

Will you create your own spring flower craft with your children? If you share a photograph on Instagram, please use the hashtag #momquesttoteach so I can see it! You can also follow me on Instagram (moms_quest_to_teach).

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Crafts: Mother's Day Wreath

For Mother's Day, my son and I made wreaths for my son's grandmothers and his Godmother.  I originally got the idea from spring wreaths made of egg carton flowers.  Since I knew how great cardboard egg cartons are for crafts, I had been saving our old ones for quite a while.  I used a total of three and cut them into separate sections.

Materials 

• Cardboard egg cartons
• Scissors
• Paper plates
• Paint and supplies
• Fasteners (or other attaching supplies)

                               

Steps 

My son painted the flowers in two sessions.  The first time he had to be encouraged to paint the inside of the flower and during our second painting session he was really interested in painting the plates.

 

After they dried, I attached the flowers to the paper plates using fasteners because it was a material I had at hand.  One could use glue or pipe cleaners and buttons to make the wreaths even fancier or if your crafty kid is older than mine (almost 3).

 

All told the project would take maybe two hours painting with 10 minutes prep time and 20 minutes to attach them to plates.

I wasn't concerned that they look too perfect because they are supposed to be from a toddler - not his mom.


Inspiration
Creative Egg Carton Crafts

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