I’ve been doing a art club at a local camp after school program and we did these projects in honor of spring last week.
One of the third graders said to me after “This was just such a wonderful idea, and it wasn‘t that messy, I just love that my flower will always be alive”. (SO cute!)
Materials:
Flowers:
- Coffee filters (the bowl ones, not the triangles)
- Food coloring
- Eye dropper or Paint brushes (we used paint brushes)
- Paper towels (hopefully you won’t need them!)
- Pipe cleaners
Pots: (I got all materials at the dollar store.)
- Foam shapes
- White Glue
- Googly eyes
- Pom poms
- Glitter
- Tissue paper
- Anything else you have!
Directions
Filters:
- Get plastic bowls, drip as much food coloring as you desire into about a cup or water.
- Flatten or leave round (you can do 2-3 filters layered, really looks pretty.)
- Drip with eye droppers on to filters. Or brush with your brushes. (a few kids actually folded their filters and carefully dipped into the colored water)
- Let dry. They dry super fast.
- Grab from center. Twist two pipe cleaners together and then around pinched filter.
- Fan out!
Pots:
This may be one of these easiest crafts ever!
- Label pots, if you’re doing with a group.
- Hand out all the materials to kids. I put a little glue in a Dixie cup and a paint brush.
- Decorate!
Put it together:
After they are dry, make a ‘sitting O’ out of the bottom of the pipe cleaners, a little bigger than the bottom circle of the pot and push flower down.
Some of the girls in the Art Club made bracelets out of the flowers.
Great craft for Mother’s Day as well!
Happy Crafting
