Flower and Plant Crafts for Kids

How to Make Crafts Relating to Flowers and Plants

 

Paper Lunch Bag Flowers Craft

 

Make sunflowers, daises, roses, asters, and anything your imagination can think of out of plain brown lunch bags!

What you will need:

Brown Lunch Bags

Water Color Paint

Twistie Ties or Chenille Stems

Recycled Plastic Bags or Paper

Green Straws

Green Paper

Markers

Googly Eyes

 

How to Make the Paper Bag Flowers

1. There are several ways to make the flowers depending on how many petals you would like your flower to have. If you only want petals in one row around the center, you only need to use one lunch bag (see the center flower in the picture). If you would a flower with layers of petals such as the flowers at the two ends in the picture, you will need more than one bag. Place one or two bags inside each other.

2. Stuff four to five wrinkled up plastic grocery bags inside your lunch bag/bags pushing them down to the bottom of the bag.

3. Gather the sides together just above the bags and use a twistie tie or half a Chenille stem to secure the gather.

4. Starting with the outside bag, cut slits down from the top of the bag to the gathered part all the way around the bag. Fold the cut pieces down and shape the petals with your scissors. Do the same thing for the inside bag/bags.

5. Once you have the petals the way you would like use water color paint or oil pastels to paint your flowers.

6. Make a stem and petals for your flowers out of green construction paper or a green straw. Glue the stems to the back of the flowers.

7. To finish add details to your flowers with markers and googly eyes.

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Books about Sunflowers

 

 

 

How to Make The Tissue Paper Poppy Flowers:

1. For each flower cut two flower shapes with five petals from red tissue paper. Make one flower shape 80% smaller than the first.

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2. Wrinkle up the flower shapes and then smooth them out a little.

3. Fold the end of a green Chenille stem down about 1/2", and then fold it down two more times.

4. Cut 1 1/2" circles from construction paper, punch a hole in the center of the circle, and a slit from the outside of the circle to the center circle. Glue the circle into a slight cone shape.

5. Punch a hole in the center of smallest tissue paper flower shape with the unfolded end of the Chenille stem. Push the flower shape up the stem to the folded end.

6. Punch a hole in the center of largest tissue paper flower shape with the unfolded end of the Chenille stem. Push the flower shape up the stem to the folded end.

7. Place the cone shape on the unfolded end of Chenille stem through the inside of the cone. Push the cone shape up to almost the top of the folded end of the Chenille. Place a little glue inside the cone and press it up against the tissue paper flowers.

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Print out this free printable, "In Flanders Field" Poem with Poppy Photograph, and use it as a display or give it to your students to help them memorize the poem.

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"Identify the Flowers" Game

 

How Many Flowers Can You Identify?

Twelve Printable Flower Cards

You can use these cards to play several different games.

1. Match Game - Print two sets and use them to play a match game.

2. "Name the Flower" Race - See who can name all the flowers the quickest.

3. Writing Cards - Write descriptions and interesting facts about the flowers on the back of the cards.

4. See who can name the most flowers

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Children or adults can use this puppet to teach about the Venus Flytrap. It is so simple to make and only takes two paper plates and a little bit of card stock.

How to Make the Venus Flytrap Puppet:

1. Fold one paper plate in half so that the top of the plate is on the outside. This will be the inside mouth of the Venus Flytrap. Paint the inside green around the edge and pink in the middle.

Glue the teeth around the edge of the unpainted side of the mouth piece. Fold the mouth in half to make sure you glue the bottom teeth so they line up opposite the top teeth. When the teeth come together they should alternate. Glue the paper plate halves to the folded paper plate mouth covering the area where the teeth are glued to the mouth.

4. Glue eyes to the top of the puppet.

5. Use your puppet to teach about Venus Flytraps.

 

Educational Activities Using the Venus Flytrap Puppet

1. Discuss how Venus Flytraps catch their prey by snapping shut their modified leaves when trigger hairs are touched. The teeth around the end of the leave form a cell-like enclosure so that flies can not escape. Have your children make their own paper plate flytraps and then test them to see if they can catch flies. Make flies from 2-inch black pom poms. Cut strips of white plastic grocery bags about 6" long by 1" wide. Tie the strip around the center of the pom pom and then cut the ends into wing shapes. Glue on wiggle eyes to finish.

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Use this Venus Flytrap paper plate craft as a educational tool. Children can write facts about flytraps on the writing sheet or the circular book and glue it to the inside of the paper plate flytrap.

How to Make the Paper Plate Venus Flytrap:

1. Paint the bottom of the paper plate green and the top green around the edges. When it is dry fold it in half so that the top of the plate is on the inside.

Test Your Knowledge - Can You Answer these Questions About the Venus Flytrap?

1. What does the flower of the Venus Flytrap look like?

2. Where do Venus Flytraps grow naturally?

3. How does the flytrap attract bugs?

4. How does it know when an insect has landed on it.

5. How does the flytrap determine when to snap shut its leaf?

6. How many hairs does the flytrap have?

7. How long does it take a plant to digest an insect?

 

 

More Learning Activities

1. Lookup these other interesting Carnivorous Plants on the web - Cobra Lily, English Sundew, Pitcher Plants, and Yellow Trumpet.

2. Check out these videos and Movie:

BBC - Life - Venus Flytraps: Jaws of Death - This is an amazing video with up-close images of the flytrap, hairs, nectar, fly, etc. Don't miss this video!

Watch "Little Shop of Horrors" 1986 Movie with Steve Martin, Rick Morainis, and Bill Murray.

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Use this Venus Flytrap paper plate craft as a educational tool. Children can see how many different arthropods they can name and feed to the Venus Flytrap, and classify them into subphylums - arachnids, crustaceans, and insects.

How to Make the Paper Plate Venus Flytrap:

1. Paint the bottom of the paper plate green and the top green around the edges. When it is dry fold it in half so that the top of the plate is on the inside.

2. Cut wedge shapes all the way around the edge of the paper plate to make the cilia.

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Venus Flytrap "Feed Me" Printable Board Game

The player who "feeds" all his flies to the flytrap first wins.

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Good Books about Venus Flytraps and Other Carnivorous Plants

 

 

 

These flowers are easy to make and inexpensive. They can be used to decorate for any holiday. Preschool children will even enjoy painting them with eye droppers.

What you will need:

Thick, Heavy Duty, White, Square Paper Towels

Glue

Pretty Buttons

Gems or Pompoms

Water Color Paints

 

How to Make Paper Towel Flower Craft:

1. Make sure your paper towel is square. Find the center of the paper towel by folding the paper towel in half and then in half the other way. Unfold the paper towel. The lines meet in the center.

2. Fold each corner in towards the center to form a new square. (See picture to the right.)

3.Then fold each new corner in towards the center again.(See picture to the right.)

4. Turn the folded paper towel over and fold the corners in towards the center again. Glue down the four points at the center. Place a button or something decorative in the center and glue it down.

5. To form the flower petals use your thumb to press in on one of the corners while reaching around to the back and pulling up and out on the pointed flap. Do this to all four corners. (See picture to the right.)

6. Then pull the four remaining corners on the back to form four more petals. (See picture to the right.)

7. Paint with water colors or eye droppers. (See picture to the right.)

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What you will need:

Colored Paper

Patterned Paper such as Origami Paper, Scrapbooking Paper, and/or Wrapping Paper

Paper Glue such as Elmer's Rubber Cement

Buttons

Sequins

Pompoms and other Decorative Items

 

How to Make Paper Flowers:

1. Print out the directions to make the Dover Garden Flowers Coloring Book "Six-Petal Flowers and the Eight-Petal Flowers.

Eight-Petal Flower Directions

2. Study the shapes and arrangements of the petals of different kinds of flowers and try to cut the petals from paper to match the flowers you have observed.

3. Cut paper into different sized squares from 3" x 3" to 9" x 9". Fold the paper and cut according to the directions. Overlap different shapes and sizes of flowers you have cut to make more complex flowers. Experiment with different color combinations.

4. When you are satisfied with your design, glue everything together using paper glue.

5. Embellish the flowers with button, sequins, glitter glue, etc.

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What you will need:

1. Origami Flowers Kit by Michael G. LaFoose - This kit includes the directions and origami paper you will need to make the flowers. (See the link at the right.)

2. Green Chenille Stems (Pipe Cleaners)

3. Small Box for the Vase or Cardboard

4. Different Colors of Tissue Paper

5. White Glue

 

How to make:

1. Make origami flowers according to the directions in the books or find directions online.

3. To make the vase tear different colors of tissue paper into about one-inch shapes. Cut the end off a small box or make your own from cardboard.

Add some water to make white glue a little runny. Coat the outside of the box with the white glue mixture with a paint brush. Stick the tissue paper all of the box smoothing it out as you go. To finish coat the box again over the tissue paper layer and add more tissue paper shapes to cover any places where the cardboard shows through.

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