Crafts
Mother’s Day is less than a month away so it’s the perfect time to gather up all our flower themed crafts for kids and share them in one easy spot for you to find them. Over the years we have done a number of easy flower crafts for kids and toddlers that use common household materials so they are frugal too. Here are our top 21 flower crafts for kids.
Daisy Math
Fruity Flower
Poppy Craft
Flower Cookie Cutter Prints ( great for toddlers)
Flower Cupcakes
Foam Flower Magnets
Pool Noodle Bouquet For Mother’s Day
Fingerprint Flower ( another great toddler craft)
V Vase
Spring Flower Mural
Dried Lentil Flowers
Newspaper and Button Flowers
Paint Chip Flowers
Cupcake Liner Poppies
Felt Flower & Color Mixing
Paper Roll Pop Out Flowers
Easter Egg Flowers
Family Flowers
Pool Noodle Flower Garland
Pasta Flower Centerpieces
Giant Sunflower Craft
I don’t usually re-do other bloggers ideas but when I saw this DIY Bird Bath , I knew my son would love it. We get a lot birds in our yard and we love making it more friendly for them. We had a great time painting this while my daughter took the longest nap ever . It was much needed mama and son time and I like how cheery the bird bath is in my back yard even if it does resemble the Stanley Cup.
To see the original inspiration and the how to pop over to The Culinary Cougar.
Here are a few other bird crafts we have done over the years .
Bird Treats
Yarn Nest
Bird Collage
Paper Birds
Recycled Bird Feeder
Books About Birds
Birds
Riki’s Birdhouse
After reading to your child daily the best advice is to surround your child with a print rich environment. Point out the letters all around you, read recipes, read food boxes, read the letters you see around you and show them to your child and play with letters. There is no need for flash cards when you are learning all the time. These alphabet peg dolls were made because my daughter loves babies so I made her some babies with letters to play with. This is the 4th part in our series Alphabet For Starters – easy and fun ways to introduce letters to your little learner.
- Gather your materials. I am using left over Martha Stewart Craft Paint from my Mother’s Day Bag I made. However you can use any paint made for wood. Read the instructions to see if it requires a sealant etc… ours didn’t which is good because I didn’t have any. Also make sure it’s non toxic because even though I am not suggesting these dolls go in any mouths , you still want to be as safe as possible. I also used painter’s tape, wood peg clothes pins, and a few brushes.
- Start by taping off a section of the doll. This will be where you paint the letter later.
- Next start painting. I painted in batches. You can paint however you want but I started with the mouths.
- Then I added hair, and a body color. I am clearly not an artist but my daughter doesn’t care at all.
- When dry peel off the tape.
- Paint the letters on and let dry.
- Play !
Some ways we have played with these dolls :
- Put them in a bag and discover them one at a time.
- Play with them in the doll house.
- Hide them in the family room and go on a hunt to find them.
- Count them.
- Make them kiss . My daughter grabs them , makes them kiss then I ask which two are kissing and she tells me. Not a bad game !
Alphabet Board Books
ABC, Baby Me!
Flora McDonnell’s ABC
Winnie-The-Pooh’s ABC Book
Grandmas love to brag. It’s what they do and I plan to brag like crazy when I have grand kids too. Grandmas have their photo books, or iPhones packed with images of their far away grandchildren but now thanks to Martha Stewart Crafts by Plaid my kids and I made their Mimi ( Grandma in Texas) a brag bag. When I agreed to be part of this Mother’s Day campaign I knew I had to do something with my kids because that is what No Time For Flash Cards is about. The bag was created by my kids and I and we even tried to make sure it was a little fancy cause they like it fancy in Texas. You gotta check out how I turned my son’s writing into a custom stencil, enough talk you just have to see it.
- Gather your materials. This is what they sent me.
Amazing right? What we ended up using were the heat tool, the stencil film, stencil tape, craft paint ( I am in love with this paint), sponge tip bottles, stencil brushes and stencil adhesive. I also bought a tote bag and we used some wood cut outs, thread, needle, glass, paper, marker and a thumbtack we had. - I started by getting my son to write Mimi on some paper. This was the central idea for this craft. I wanted to make sure it was his writing on the bag.
- Then I put the paper under some glass and taped the stencil film on top.
- Time to cut with the heat tool. Now as you see my kids are not doing any of these steps and no child should. This is adult time for sure. This heat tool is seriously hot. It’s easy to use and hold correctly but please it’s only for adults. It cut so easily through the film. I am in love with this idea of custom and re-usable stencils. I am thinking hand prints, silhouettes… the possibilities are endless. I specifically kept the edges rough to make it match my son’s writing.
- Next I sprayed the adhesive on the stencil and applied it to our bag. I totally put it on wrong and just like the can said, I could reposition it no problem.
- Then using the stencil tape I added a few stripes as per my son’s request. I let my kids choose the colors , ok so really I let them choose pearl or satin.
- Then I painted the bag.
- I think it turned out really well. Also something for moms like me that can fit adult crafting in only if you can do it fast, this paint dries quick. I love that it does. It’s also non toxic which is so important to me.
- We weren’t done yet though. I wanted my daughter to add her touch as well. These sponge tips that can be added right to the paint bottles were the perfect tool for her to help. { There are no warnings on these products but please use the utmost care and give any young child your complete attention when crafting}.
- I used some wooden flower cut outs we had and made them into buttons by hammering a pushpin into them. Use one as a guide so all will line up.
- Then I taped then to a paper towel and let my daughter paint them.
- Once they were dried I threaded them together into a cluster.
- Then sewed them on to the bag as the dots on the i’s .
Now all we have to do is send this to Mimi in Texas for her to carry around telling everyone how her brilliant grandchildren made her this amazing Mother’s Day gift.
This post is part of a wonderful campaign you can find more great ideas for Mother’s Day using Martha Stewart Craft Paint by Plaid by connecting to them on Facebook , Twitter and my fave Pinterest .
I wrote this post as part of a paid campaign with Plaid and Blueprint Social. The opinions and creations in this post are my own
I don’t know many households that don’t have a few empty paper rolls hanging around. They are great for crafts and we have 15 fun ideas to use paper rolls for. Earth Day is coming up and making one ( or more) of these crafts is a wonderful hands on way to teach your children about recycling.
1.Recycled Sailboat
2.Toilet Roll Frankenstein
3. Paper Roll Rocket
4.Turkey
5. Music Shaker
6.Toilet Paper Roll Puppets
7. Toilet Paper Roll Airplane
8.Campfire
9. Paper Roll Apples
10.Wrapping Paper Roll Flag
11.Family Bowling
12. Paper Roll Necklace
13. Paper Roll Flutes
14.Superhero Cuff
15. Paper Roll Flowers
