Easy Paper Flower Craft For Kids
Learn how to create a fun flower craft with children using paper plates and coffee filters. Kids love making thier own 3-d flower.
Print Tutorial
Equipment
- Paint Palette or tray
- Washable Markers
- Water
- Water container
- Paint Tray
- Scissors
- Stapler
Supplies
- 1 Paper plates
- 1 Q-tip
- 1 Coffee Filters with paper underneath
- 1 Cardboard Strips
- 1 6" x 6" Tagboard
- Blue and Yellow Tempera Paint
- Black Crayon
- Scrap paper optional
Instructions
- Use washable markers to design a coffee filter. Add as much color as possible.
- Add water to coffee filter so that colors blend together.
- Let coffee filters dry.
- Begin adding dots to paper plate with q-tip and paint.
- Paint cardboard stem and tagboard with yellow and blue tempera paint.
- Let plate, cardboard and tagboard fully dry.
- Cut flower petals out of plate.
- Cut 1 or 2 leaves out of the painted green tagboard.
- Assemble flower by having an adult staple all parts together.
- Children can add an extra center to the flower with scrap paper and glue stick to cover the staples.
Notes
- Anytime you are placing a paint tray on a table, put 2 paint colors you know will mix well together. It is very hard for the table to not mix it all up as they work.
- Take your time with kids when doing each part. You can stretch this lesson to include other color-mixing activities and books.
- Depending on the thickness of your plates. some younger students will have difficulty cutting.
- Continue to encourage little ones to squeeze and use the whole scissor to cut.
Cost: under $5