DLTK's Winter Crafts for
Kids:
Paper Poinsettia Flowers
Paper Poinsettia Flowers are easy enough for young children learning
scissor skills to make, but lovely enough for anyone to craft to put on
cards, gift tags or to hang as Christmas decorations. We even made a
Christmas wreath out of them - my 11 year old is
very fond of making them.
We usually make ours with 3 inch petals but you can make them as large
or as small as you need.
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Materials:
- red and yellow construction paper.
- scissors,
- glue,
- hole punch.
Instructions:
- fold a piece of red construction paper in half. Rub your
finger along the crease so it's a nice clean fold.
NOTE: older children and adults can fold 2 or 3 times before
cutting to make a group of petals. Young children should stick
to a single fold.
- Cut a half petal shape out along the fold, so that when you open
your petal it's symmetrical (the same on both sides) with a fold down
the center.
- Repeat this process until you have five petals
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- Use a hole punch to punch out a number of yellow dots from the
yellow construction paper.
- Assemble your flower by gluing the five petals in a circle and
gluing the yellow dots in the center.
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