Crafts are the best way to keep your kids constructively engaged. Read below to know the various flower crafts for kids.

Flower Crafts For Kids

The body and mind of a child is constantly under development. All that he or she learns and all that he or she feel will mould the character and also be the basic of the direction his or her life will take. That is why, it is imperative that the kids should be encouraged to perform all those activities that are constructive and stimulate both the mind and the body. This makes crafts in any form all the more essential in the mental development of the child. Flower crafts are especially good as the children can get a sense of colors and see how a combination of colors gives rise to beauty. It also helps in the better coordination of the left and right brain. Even if all these are left aside, flower craft is the best way to keep the kids engaged. All the kids love to work with colored papers, glue, papers, and sundry other things, cutting and drawing to create things. The kids can themselves see the results and when they are appreciated for it, they will like to work on these kinds of activities more often. The main idea should be to make flower crafts a type of education for the kids. And this education will be more fun filled and instructive than all the school based ones. Read below for the various flower craft ideas for your kids.
 
Flower Crafts Ideas For Kids
 
Paper Plate Daffodil
 
Materials Required
  • 9" Paper Plate
  • Foam Coffee Cup
  • Scissors
  • Pencil
  • Yellow and Green Craft Paint
  • Paintbrush
  • 12" x ¾" strip of Cardboard
  • White Craft Glue
 
How To Make
  • Cut the coffee cup to two inches by trimming from the top. Make the bottom even, by trimming off the sides.
  • Take the paper plate and draw a simple star at the back of it. Then cut this star and round off the tips.
  • Color the inside of the cup and the star in yellow. When the paint dries, color the outside of the cup in yellow.
  • Cut four leaves from the paper plate scraps, and glue it to the cardboard strip.
  • Then paint the leaves and strip green.
  • Now on top of the stem, fix the star and fix the cup to the center of the star. Leave it to dry. 
Egg Cup Tulips
 
Materials Required
  • 3 Cardboard Egg Cups
  • 6" square piece of Green Craft Foam
  • Toothpick
  • Scissors
  • 3 Green Chenille Stems
  • Pink, Red And Light Blue Acrylic Paint
  • Light Purple Tissue Paper
  • Yellow Tissue Paper
  • Blue Tissue Paper 
How To Make
  • Cut out three eggcups from an egg carton. Onto the sides of the cup, cut V shapes and trim them down.
  • Now, color the cups, one red, one light blue, and one pink. Keep it aside to dry.
  • Take the green craft foam, cut four-inch long almond shaped leaves and using the toothpick make a hole in the center of each leaf.
  • Insert the chenille stem into the hole at the center of the leaf. Do the same for the other two.
  • Now, poke a hole into the bottom of each cup and insert a stem into it. Pull the cup about a fourth of the stem down.
  • Now cut the tissue paper to form 3” x 3” squares. Do this for the rest of the colors. Insert the top of the stem into the center of two tissue papers and pull the egg cup to the paper so that the paper tucks inside the cup. Bend the end of the stem to hold everything in place.
  • Adjust the leaves so that it comes just below the cup.
  • Repeat for all the other flowers. 
Paper Flowers
 
Materials Required
  • Construction Paper of any color
  • Pom Poms, medium or large, of any color
  • Bendable Straws
  • White Craft Glue
  • Scissors
  • Flower Shaped Cookie Cutter (optional) 
How To Make 
  • On the construction paper, draw flowers free hand. You can also draw the flowers by tracing around the edge of the flower cutter. Then cut the outer shape of the flowers.
  • Cut though the side of one of the petals and in the middle, make a small circle. Now, overlap the petals where the line was cut and stick them together with glue.
  • Fix the pom pom at the center of the flower using glue. At the back of the flower, glue the straw to the back of the pom pom.
  • Keep the flower with extra support to the stem until the glue dries.

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