23 July 2008
Making : Lily paper flowers
Category : Activities for kids, Arts & Crafts Permalink
Welcome to Leonny's site! If you're new at Everyday Things and you enjoy the site, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. This way you'll be notified whenever there's a new post! Thanks for visiting!
We had quite a bit of coloured straws and coloured paper at home, and so we made these paper flowers (that are supposed to look something like this if they’re real)
What you need :
>> Coloured paper
>> Coloured straws (for the stems)
>> Crayons, glue, scissors and scotch tape
What you do :
>> Place kid’s palm on paper and using a crayon, make an outline
>> Cut the outline (older kids may help out)
>> Paste a bit of glue on one side of the ‘handprint’ and make a ‘cone’ (on the lower part of the handprint cut-out)
>> Stick a straw in the middle of it
>> To ensure the paper flower stays put, use a scotch tape to stick the paper flower to the straw
It’s that easy!
I do feel this activity is more for older kids though as it is slightly more complex.
Vai - who is turning 2 years old next month - couldn’t really contribute much, other than lending his palm.
And so he did a simple hand-eye coordination exercise (while Anya and I worked on the flowers) : he placed coloured matchsticks into the straw.
And since we keep the ’stretchy’ part of the straw slightly bent at the bottom, the matchsticks remained inside the straw. Only when it’s full that he straightened up the straw, and let the rest of the matchsticks fall out!
[Matchsticks do get 'jammed' in the tunnel]
Anyway, we liked the flowers we made!
And Anya held on to the bunch and pretended to be : a salesgirl at a flowershop, then a flower girl walking down the aisle!
7 Comments »
CLICK HERE to follow subsequent comments and replies on this post
· TrackBack URILeave a Comment
Similar Posts from our Archives:
- Making : School Bus
- Making : Colourful caterpillars and Beard Men
- Making : Sticky Straws
- Wanting one. Making one.
- Making : Stick man
- Making : Prickly Creatures
- Scribble, cut & paste
Posted by valentine
24 July 2008 @ 9:19 pm
hi, have you tried making edible dough with them? Like playdough, but its edible.
I tried once with valencia although she is still quite young to really knead out something, but just allowing her to feel different texture and taste.
Posted by Jim Davis
26 July 2008 @ 2:01 am
Great Flower story, you really deliver great stories on flowers and roses, they are my favorite.
Thanks,
Jimmy
Posted by kkf
26 July 2008 @ 4:54 pm
great idea! thanks! will try that with my boy!
Posted by Leonny
28 July 2008 @ 12:43 am
Hi Jim! Thanks for your comment!
……………………………………………………………….
Thanks KKF,
Am thinking of posting these photos sometime soon on the site!
and when you do get to make them with your son, if you don’t mind, do send me photos of them ?
xxx
Leonny
Posted by Leonny
28 July 2008 @ 12:47 am
Hi Val!!
No I haven’t actually made them yet, though I’ve always thought about making them! Keep forgetting to buy some food colouring for the dough! (somehow I just feel it’d be more interesting if it’s not white-coloured’
)
For kneading activities, I sometimes let the kids ‘mix’ my minced meat and let them make meatballs out of them (though the shapes are not always that ’round’!) hehe …
Thanks for the dough idea though! Perhaps sometime soon
Posted by gowri
7 August 2008 @ 11:32 pm
thats sooo cute!
Posted by Leonny
11 August 2008 @ 9:58 am
Thanks gowri!
Have a great week!