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DLTK's Holiday Activities
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! |
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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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