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DLTK's Holiday Activities for Kids
Muffin Flower Craft
These are simple and fun crafts for even the youngest children to do. The
center of the flower can be further decorated with yellow sequins, small seeds
or a photo. We used a black marker to dot on spots in the center for ours.
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This page has the basic instructions for muffin flower crafts. Check out
the following links for themed variations:
Tracy wrote:
"I took the idea of making flowers with muffin liners and made a bit of a change. I took small pictures of my kids and placed them in each muffin liner. Then we glued the flowers onto a sheet of paper with a flower pot and wrote
'Grandma’s Love makes us grow' on the pot. You could also use Mom’s love makes us grow or whatever!!!"
Thanks for sharing your idea Tracy! |
Materials:
 | a printer (or draw your own stem and leaves),
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| glue,
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| scissors,
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| a piece of paper (I prefer construction paper),
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| two muffin
cups (the paper cups you make muffins or cupcakes in)
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| something the color with (paint, crayons, markers, etc)
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Directions:
| Colour the two muffin cups various colours (they
will be the flower head).
 | You might want to make the centers yellow and the outsides
a rainbow of flower colours... be creative!
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| This step should be first, especially if using paint, so it has a
chance to dry while you're doing the other steps.
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| Set aside to dry.
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| Print out the template of choice.
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are using a black and white printer, you can print the template on green construction
paper.
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| Cut out the template pieces and colour if
necessary.
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| Glue the leaves and the stem onto a piece of
white paper.
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| Glue the two muffin cups onto the top of the stem
(one on top of the other) to form the flower.
| Flatten out the bottom cup a bit more
than the top cup so you can see the petals
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| you can use more than two cups if you want...
the more cups you use, the more petals your flower will have.
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| You can decorate the paper further by colouring
in grass, sky and clouds. Alternatively, you can use balled up pieces of green
tissue paper as grass and cotton balls as clouds.
OR
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| you can decorate the paper further by drawing a flower pot under the
flower
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| Try colouring the muffin cups with pastels, the stem and
leaves with regular crayons and the sky with water colour paints (different mediums are
always lots of fun for the kids). Or just put out a variety of mediums and let your
kids pick which to use.
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Templates:
| Close the template window after printing to
return to this screen.
| Set page margins to zero if you have trouble
fitting the template on one page (FILE, PAGE SETUP in most browsers).
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