The flowers are starting to appear in our garden and our crafts lately have been all about spring flowers too – creating a flower crown, making flowery pictures and creating our own mini garden as part of our spring crafts sessions. Here’s our latest mini creations:
Paper plate spring flower crown
This pretty spring flower crown is easy to make – although little ones may need an adult to do the first part for them.
You will need:
A green paper plate
A pencil
A ruler
Coloured card
Scissors or a craft knife
PVA glue or double-sided tape
On the back of a paper plate, draw four lines to create eight segments (like dividing a cake). Cut out the segments from the centre, stopping at the rim of the paper plate. It’s easier to use a craft knife for this rather than scissors. Fold up each triangular segment to make a crown. Cut out flower shapes from coloured card and glue these on to the top of each segment. We used PVA glue at first but found that the plate surface was a little too slippery – double-sided sticky tape was more effective at sticking the flower shapes to the points of the crown.
Egg box spring garden
You will need:
An empty egg box
Shredded green tissue paper
Coloured/patterned paper
Coloured pom poms
Googly eyes
A small piece of orange or yellow card
PVA glue
This was a lovely simple craft and kept my four-year old occupied for some time. We filled an egg box with shredded green tissue paper to make grass and then stuck flowers cut from coloured paper around the middle and sides of the egg box. The birds are made from two pom-poms stuck together with small triangles cut out of orange card glued on to make their beaks, and googly eyes.
Cupcake case flower
You will need:
Two or three cupcake cases (preferably of different sizes)
A button
A pipe cleaner
A sharp pencil
Put the cupcake cases inside each other and make a hole through the centre with a sharp pencil. Push a pipe cleaner through the hole, pass it through one hole in the button and back through the other (and the hole made in the cupcake cases) and then twist at the back of the flower to secure.
We turned our cupcake cases inside out so the pattern was on the inside of the flower as we were displaying them on a wall (using washi tape “leaves” to hold them in place) but if you’re displaying yours in a vase, then you don’t need to do this.
Cupcake case flower pictures
You will need:
Coloured paper
Small cupcake cases
Buttons
PVA glue
A green pen or crayon
Another very simple activity for little ones to do themselves. The flowers are made from cupcake cases (turned inside out so the pattern is on the inside) glued on to a piece of coloured paper with buttons glued into the centre of the cases. It was interesting to see the differences in how my two girls created their cupcake flowers – Jessica, my eldest, preferred to squash her the cupcake cases flat before gluing the buttons on whereas Sophie preferred the cupcake cases to stand out. I then drew in the leaves and stems with a marker pen once the glue had dried.
Some lovely ideas, thanks for sharing. I will be book marking this to do with my eldest, we are always looking for new things to do and these look fab x
Thanks Laura – hope you have fun doing them 🙂
These are lovely! I feel like Max is right on the cusp of being able to start doing some of these crafty things now – I can’t #bloggerclubuk
Thanks Katy – hope you and Max have fun trying some of them – the cupcake flower picture is probably the easiest one for little ones 🙂
Gorgeous. If you’d like to link up at my #treasuredmoments linky you’d be really welcome.
Thank you for letting me know about your linky 🙂
Oh these look like so much fun! I bet Boo would love them all – we will have to give them a go. The crowns are just fab!
Thanks Jenni – I’m sure Boo would love trying some of them out – I can just imagine her in one of the crowns 🙂
Aww! What lovely ideas!
Never mind little one’s I think my 8 year old would love to make some of these. Especially the flower crown 😀 x
Thanks Kim – I could just see Ellie in the flower crown! 🙂
The egg box spring garden is super cute! We might try this at home! Love your paper flowers too! #bloggerclubuk
Thank you – I loved the egg box spring garden as there are so many different things you could do with it 🙂
Ooo I love the little egg box garden and the cupcake flowers particularly…all of them are great for simplicity though. My little boy needs simplicity in his crafting endeavours at the moment and it can be hard to find suitable activities. These are lovely ideas x
They are lovely simple activities – hope your little one enjoys them if you do give them a go 🙂
You always do such lovely looking crafts that are so child friendly. I love crafts the kids actually do not ones the adults do and pass off as kids work. I really like the spring garden idea and will pass that on to my colleagues at school. The girls look like they had a blast and I love the concentration on your little ones face with the buttons so cute!!! TY for linking up with #FamilyFun
Thank you Catie – the girls do love doing “making” as they call it and I love things that they can do without too much input from me so some of these were perfect for that. Lovely to link up to #FamilyFun – thank you for hosting 🙂
Awesome…I love this! I’m going to make the egg box garden tomorrow – hopefully we’ll have some good pics to share. #familyfun
Thank you Liz – hope you had fun making the egg box garden 🙂
Gorgeous crafts ideas. I’m not crafty in this way, but I want to do activities like this with my little one. I’m bookmarking this for reference. Thanks so much for sharing. 🙂 #CommentLuv
Thank you – hope you have fun if you give them a go 🙂
And the great mummy award goes to… YOU! This is lovely and so many ideas! Your beautiful girlies looked like they had so much fun! Great post and loved the paper plate hat!
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Thank you Katie – we certainly did have a lot of fun making these! 🙂
I love the Egg box spring garden, it is so cute! #FamilyFun
Thank you Deb, it was fun to make 🙂
What wonderful ideas! I’ll definitely be trying these out, especially the egg box garden, love it x #bloggerclubuk
Thanks Laura – hope you have fun trying them out 🙂
You always come up with the best ideas! These are so lovely for the spring time. It looks like the girls really enjoyed making them. Thanks so much for joining us at #bloggerclubuk
Thank you Becky – they were so much fun to make 🙂
Love the crown! I’m going to try this with our girls!
As a former early years practitioner these are right up my street#kidsandkreativity@_karendennis
They’re such fun crafts for little ones 🙂
Some really lovely ideas here, I love the cupcake flower pictures! Thanks for joining in with #KidsandKreativity, hope to see you back next time x
Thank you Kerry – the girls enjoyed making those.