Need a fabulously easy and sweet Mother’s Day craft for kids…plus a little extra gift money for your mom (or yourself!)?? Look no further! First up, find out how Izzie made an adorable bouquet of paper flowers. Second, enter to win a $300 Visa Gift Card!! woot woot.
Paper Bouquet Craft
Not sure if I have shared this before, but the first Tuesday of the month, I go with a group on moms and toddlers to our local senior center to do a craft and sing some songs. It is a sweet sweet time for all of us – the seniors love the laughter and excitement the kids bring, and the kids learn to care for, value, and relate to an older and wiser generation. Growing up, my mother and grandmother often took us to visit shut-ins and people in the nursing home. It taught me so much and gave me many wonderful memories! I home my girls take away the same.
I planned this month’s craft to celebrate upcoming Mother’s Day and May Flowers! Thanks to Artrageous Afternoon for the idea. 🙂
Izzie loved making this bouquet of flowers, plus, these flowers will last a lot longer than the real deal. haha
Supplies Needed:
- 6 green strips of green construction paper
- 3″ squares of tissue paper
- 2 other pieces of paper
- glue
- scissors
First, I cut lots of lots of strips of green construction paper about 3/4′ wide. I was super exact about it. I then cut A TON of 3″ squares of a variety of different color tissue paper.
Then, Izzie glued 6 strips of green paper on to the paper. Izzie then put dots of glue at the top of each strip of paper.
She then placed tissue paper squares, both flat and crumpled at the top. This was all her genius – she had a very definite idea of how she wanted to do things! (I don’t know where she gets that from, lol)
I then traced Izzie’s hand and forearm, cut it out, and glued it on top to look like the hand was holding the flowers.
Finally, I hung it on our Washi Tape clothes line art display.
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What do you think? What are you doing for Mother’s Day?!
Thanks so much for reading along about my paper flower bouquet and Mother’s Day Giveaway,
Izzie is a brilliant artist! What a beautiful and sentimental monther’s day craft!
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Love the Mother’s Day craft. So cute. And I absolutely love that you take your girls to interact with senior adults. What a blessing for both the young and old.
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Now you tell me! 😉 Thanks, Jocie.
Such an adorable idea, Jocie! 🙂
Boy I sure can tell Izzie enjoyed this craft. It looks an awful lot like the bouquet that facebook had on their sign (we drove by it a few times over the weekend) in honor of mothers day. Personally? I like Izzie’s more.
So sweet! This was my first Mother’s Day this year and I received a beautiful bouquet of flowers. However, mine eventually died. Yours will last forever! 🙂
I love these precious tissue flowers and plan to have my first graders make them!!!