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Mother's Day Flower Pot Hanging

Tasha made this for me a when she was 5 and I still have it hanging on my wall!

Materials:

  • large paper plate
  • styrofoam cup (you only need 1/2 a cup for each craft)
  • paint
  • glue
  • string or ribbon
  • hole punch
  • green tissue paper 
  • OPTIONAL:  flower colored tissue paper (yellow, pink, blue or purple all work well)

Directions:

  • have the children paint the paper plate
      
  • Cut the styrofoam cup in half (an adult's job) and paint it too if you like (you can see from the photo above that the kids sponge painted the cup.
      
  • Let dry
      
  • Glue the cup onto the plate
      
  • Let dry
      
  • Punch a hole in the top of the plate.
    • Put a string or ribbon through.  
    • Tie the ribbon so you have a loop that would go over a doorknob or a pin so mom can hang it up.
        
  • Cut pieces of green tissue paper (about 4 inch by 4 inch pieces).  
    • Children can do this with safety scissors as the cutting doesn't need to be exact.  
    • Tuck these pieces into the cup (they look like leaves).
        
  • Cut one long strip of green tissue paper about 4 or 5 inches wide.  
    • Accordion fold (fan fold) the piece as tightly as the kids are able.  
    • Keeping it folded, cut thin strips
    • tuck them into the cup (they look like grass).
        
  • OPTIONAL:  Write HAPPY MOTHER's DAY, the child's name and/or the year along the top.

      

  • OPTIONAL:  Cut pieces of flower coloring tissue paper about 4 inches by 4 inches.  
    • Stack 4 pieces on top of each other (you can use different colors) with a dab of glue in the center between each layer.  
    • Stick the eraser end of a pencil in the center (where the glue dabs are) and scrunch the flower up around the pencil.  
    • Remove the pencil and tuck the flower(s) into the cup.
        

OR

  • ALTERNATIVE OPTION:  Cut simple flowers from construction paper or cardstock.  
    • Cut a circle around a photo of the child and glue to the center of the flower.  
    • Glue the flower onto the paper plate above the cup.
    • Glue a strip of green paper as a stem below the flower (down to the cup) or draw a stem with a marker
    • for this option to work, you need a fairly small photo of the child.
  

 

Note from a viewer (Thanks Gina!):  Here's a variation of your original idea.  Simply glue silk flowers in the center of a paper plate.  Rip up pieces of complimentary colored tissue paper and glue around the edge of the plate.

 

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