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Nothing is sweeter than a small child with a bouquet of flowers clenched in his small fist, holding them out to his mommy. Whether they're dandelions or roses, we treasure them all.
This Mother's Day, we've got 5 great ways to make homemade flowers for mommy - they won't wilt and you can keep them forever.
Surprise mom or grandma this Mother's Day with a homemade flower (or two) made by little hands!
Sometimes it's time to clean out the craft bin and get creative! The momstown crafters got busy making a spring garden scene with all kinds of mixed media.
What you need:
Though we used a lot of different materials, you can use whatever you have handy to create a garden like this one. We've got cotton ball clouds, popsicle and tissue trees, foamy flowers, and a construction paper sun!
Using scissors helps children develop fine motor skills - foam is a great medium to practice on. It glues easily to construction paper and has texture kids enjoy working with.
Check out more Spring-themed crafts from momstown:
Cupcake liners make a great craft material. momstown turned some into flowers in this adorable cupcake flower activity for all ages!
What you need:
Draw or cut out a stem for your flower onto construction paper.
Glue the cupcake liner onto the stem to make the flower.
Glue a circle into the middle of the cupcake liner to make the flower's centre.
Then, decorate the rest of the page any way you wish - we had butterfly stickers and used tissue paper for grass on one of our flower pictures.
momstown's got lots of flower crafts to try:
momstown's crafters found some flowered wrapping paper scraps - so we recycled them and turned them into flower for our v is for vase craft!
What you need:
Cut out a lower case 'v' from construction paper. Have your child help - v's have lots of straight lines and are easier to cut than most letters.
Glue the v onto another piece of construction paper. This makes the vase.
Cut out flowers from gift wrap (or you could draw them if you don't have any, or look through magazines for some) and glue on inside the 'vase'.
V is for Victory! And a job well done.
You can also use leftover gift wrap in our g is for gift craft or f is for fish activity.
momstown's got a great spring alphabet craft - p is for petal! Celebrate the arrival of spring with flowers and letter p.
What you need:
Draw or cut out a lower case 'p' and glue onto construction paper. Using the centre of the circle as the flower centre, glue flower petals all around and glue one or two small beads for the very middle.
Add some additional flowers and petals on to the page too, if you like! If you fold up the sides of the petals you will get a three-dimensional effect.
Love flower crafts? Click here for a whole lot more. Happy spring!
We turned a letter G into a full-fledged garden!
Our garden is complete with flowers, grass, sunshine, butterflies, and even some rain!
What you need:
Draw the upper-case G with marker. Then start building your garden! We cut out strips of green construction paper for grass, used pipe cleaners for flower stems, and "G"s for flowers!
Then we added a few ingredients that all gardens need... sunshine, and rain! We talked about another 'G' word - 'Grow'! It was a great opportunity to talk about living things, and how they all need food, water, and air to survive.
Remember that "G" words have either a hard G (like garden, grow) or a soft G (like gym, gerbil). Start with the hard-G sound when you are introducing letter sounds, just to keep it consistent!
momstown has some great ways to engage children in the outdoors, gardening, and learning about nature! At home or with a playgroup, try our:
