Flowers Activities

Overview of Activities

Flowerpot toss

Hand Flowers

Kaleidoscope

Paper Flowers

Paper Towel Flowers
Pinwheel
Salt Dough Flowers

Spongee Flyers

Tissue paper roses

Flower Pot Toss

Materials

• Pot
• Beanbags

Directions

• Toss beanbags into flower pots
• Further flower pot is higher the points
• Person with most points win

Hand Flowers

Materials

• Construction Paper
• Markers
• Glue

Directions

• Color in a paper green/use green construction paper and cut out a stem of a flower
• Trace you hand on colorful piece of paper; do this three times
• Layer the hands on top of one another
• Attach to stem with glue

Kaleidoscope

Materials

• Clear Plastic Cup
• Rubber band
• Plastic Wrap
• Tissue Paper
• Tape 

Directions

• Take the cup and cover it completely in plastic wrap
• Carefully rip small pieces of tissue paper and arrange them on the top of the cup
• Cover the top of the cup with a piece of plastic wrap; you can make it stay by wrapping a rubber band around the cup
• Repeat the same step, except do it on the bottom of the cup
• You have your kaleidoscope

Paper Flowers

Materials

• Square Piece of Paper
  

Directions

• Fold Paper in half like triangle
• Do it on the other side
• Take a corner and fold it into the center (do this to all corners)
• Flip over
• Now with new square fold corners into the center
• Flip over
• Fold all the corners again
• Now fold the flaps over
• Open all of them out

Paper Towel Flowers

Materials

• Paper towel
• Glue
• Markers
• Paint brush

Directions

• Decorate paper towel with markers
• Paint water onto the towels so the color spreads
• Squeeze to dry
• Rip and tear in to little squares
• Scrunch squares into balls
• Dip into glue to connect parts together
• Take a strip of paper towel and color it green
• Wrap strip around bottom of bundle

Link: http://www.kiwicrate.com/projects/Paper-Towel-Flower/779

Pinwheel

Materials

• Paper
• Straw
• Fastener 

Directions

• Fold the paper in half on the diagonal and with it folded, cut the remaining paper off
• Fold the paper on the diagonals
• Draw lines on the diagonals
• Cut a line about 1/3 of the inch in on all four lines
• Decorate the paper
• Take the end of the blade that is right to the corner and stick it in the center
• Do this to the other three blades
• To cover the center, cut a little circle and glue it
• In the middle punch a hole through it
• Put the fastener through the hole, spreading it out
• Punch a hole through a straw
• Insert the pinwheel through the straw

Link: http://www.koolkidscrafts.com/make-a-pinwheel.html

Salt Dough Flower Fingerprints

Materials

• Salt Dough
• ¼  cup salt
• 1 cup flour
• ¼  cup water
• Flower cookie cutter

Directions

• Mix ingredients together
• Knead dough together
• Roll salt dough to ½ thickness and cut out shapes using cookie cutter
• With the flowers, use thumbs to gently press into the petals
• Bake at 250 degrees for 2-3 hours

Link: http://meaningfulmama.com/2014/03/salt-dough-flower-fingerprints.html

http://meaningfulmama.com/2012/11/salt-dough-recipe.html

Spongee Flyers

Materials

• Sponges
• 1 plastic Cable tie or Gimp
• 1 large rubber band
• Scissors

Directions

• Cut the sponge into thirds lengthwise
• Stack the cut sponges on top of each other
• Grab the stack of sponges in the center and twist the stack once
• Secure a plastic cable tie or a piece of gimp around the center pulling as tight as possible
• Trim the plastic cable tie
• Put the rubber band on the tip of your thumb, pull back the sponge ball and shoot

Tissue Paper Roses

Materials

• Tissue paper
• Pipe cleaner
  

Directions

• Take the number of tissue paper you want (usually 3) on top of each other
• Fold them together accordion style (back and forth)
• Take the pipe cleaner and twist it around the tissue paper, dividing it in half
• Unfold tissue paper, being careful to not rip it
• Open up and fix the paper in to the flower shape
• You have your flower!