Paper Blossoms
Your child can make her own paper flower buds and blossoms using three simple materials.
Materials
Directions
Collect small sticks and branches from outside and stack them into a pile. Sort through the pile to choose the ones you like, then arrange your sticks in a vase.
Tear off tiny pieces of your crepe paper streamers and ball them into little flower "buds." The rounder looking, the better! Be sure not to make them too large or they won't glue on easily.
Glue the tiny paper "buds" onto the branches with your glue. Use just a little dab and then pinch onto the branch with your fingers. Your child can glue the same color onto each branch or fill the branches with many different colors.
Allow about an hour to dry, and then you and your child are finished!
Caroline Gravino Urdaneta, a PBS Parents resident crafter, is a designer of creative family projects, tinkering painter and mother of four children. She writes about project ideas for the whole family and how to encourage creativity in kids on the popular blog, Salsa Pie.
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