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Wednesday, April 30, 2014

Shredded Paper Flower Bouquet



Want to make a flower bouquet for someone special in your child's life? Your youngster will love ripping up or cutting out colorful sheets of paper to make his very own floral bouquet. What a great gift for Mother's day or for a special grandma.


These flower collages will remain beautiful for years to come! 
Eclectic Red Barn: Paper Flower Bouquet for Mother's Day

This is a great gift for children of all ages. They can cut out flower petals or tear them. Either way, the result will be their own creation.

What You Need:

Watercolor paper, 11" x 17"

Flesh-colored paper for the arm and hand(you can use brown paper if you can't find flesh colored)

Various shades of green construction paper for stems and leaves

Brightly colored construction papers for flowers

Pencil

Scissors

Glue stick

What You Do:
1. Help your paper florist trace his/her arm and hand on the flesh colored paper.

2. Have him/her cut out his/her paper arm and put it aside.(You can do the cutting for smaller children)

3. Place the white paper in a vertical, or portrait-style, position.

4. Now he/she can lay the paper hand across the bottom of the white paper. The fingers should almost touch the end of the paper. Cut down the arm part of the colored paper so it matches flush with the white paper.

5. Help to glue just the arm part of the cut-out to the white paper. Keep the paper hand and fingers free from glue at this point.

6. Together, enjoy cutting and tearing long thick and thin stems out of the green papers, then cut and tear various leaf shapes out of the green paper including big and small, round and fat, and long and thin shapes.

7. Arrange the stems so they're in between the "fingers" of the hand. Some of them should overlap the thumb, but all should go under the fingers.

8. Help your child glue down the thumb and the stems from the bottom up. Do NOT glue the tops of the stems yet.

9. Make the fingers appear to be "holding" the flowers by folding the fingers under and gluing them, or just cut the fingers off to give the effect of bent fingers.

10. Glue the fingers down.

11. Now he can place the leaves all around the stems and glue them down

12. Next, you can both tear, rip and cut colored paper into the shapes of petals!

13. Glue down the petals. Overlapping stems and petals will look great on this project.
Eclectic Red Barn: Paper Flower Bouquet for Mother's Day
This would be great framed or sent via "mail" to someone special.
*Found this idea on Education.com



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1 comment :

  1. Just darling. My boys are to old to think of making "mommy" a mothers day gift. I hope someday to have grand children that will create lovely little Mother's Day sentiments for their Mom and me.... :) I have several grand children by marriage but they don't do much in the way of sentiments.... :(

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