April activities? This Spring Flowers Craft is the perfect way to celebrate a new season. A Spring time array of colorful flowers. This is also a fun craft for Mother’s Day. Mom will love this never-wilting bouquet!
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The printable template contains images for both the tulips and daisies shown above. These flowers can be folded and attached to a sheet of pleated, green construction paper. This spring flowers craft is designed for older elementary school children since younger children may have difficulty folding the flowers. Another option would be to use small silk flowers instead of the folded flowers.
Materials for the Spring Flowers Craft:
- Printer paper – white or different colors for the flowers
- Green construction
- Scissors
- Craft glue
- Scotch tape
- Pleated flowers pattern (terms & conditions for downloads)
Start by printing out the Pleated Flowers pattern PDF. Use either white or different colors of printer paper. Note: you can use white paper and children can color the flowers with crayons or markers.
Cut out the flowers. It might be easier for children to fold the flowers in half and then cut out. For a large group, print the flower pages on on several different colors of printer paper and allow the children to choose which flowers to use.
Fold the flower pattern in half, vertically so that the print is visible from the outside. Then make folds in the flowers so that there is a tab in the back. Using the flue stick, attach the flowers together where the folded sections meet.
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Folding the Green Paper
Now that you have your flowers ready to go, it’s time to fold the green paper. Starting with the shorter side of the green construction paper, fold pleats accordion style about 3/4 – 1″ apart. Continue until the entire paper has been folded.
Fold the pleated paper in half. With the paper folded, hold all the loose ends together and make a 1″ angled cut at the end. Take the center of the folded paper and tape the two loose pieces together to make a semi-circle of pleated paper.
Let’s Add the Flowers
Glue the tab on the back of the flowers to the folds in the green pleated paper. Attach circles to the centers of the daises. In this example I also attached a sequined butterfly.
