Plants and Gardens Crafts

Coffee Filter Flowers
Get coffee filters and watercolors and let the children paint them. When they are dry, pinch the middle of the coffee filter with your thumb and pointer finger and twist it so it looks like a blossom or a pansy. Twist a pipe cleaner around the bottom of it for the stem. Spray them with perfume.

Lai Making
Cut out small flowers out of construction paper. Punch a hole in the center of them. Cut colored straws into different sized segments. Cut a piece of yarn for each child large enough for a necklace. Let the child alternate using the flowers and straw pieces.

Vase Decorating
Use clean baby food jars (taller ones) for the vase. Let the children cut crepe paper into small pieces. Using a paintbrush, spread glue on one side of the jar at a time and place the crepe paper on it. If you spread glue over the whole thing at once it is rather messy and hard to hold. The children might need help brushing a thin layer of glue over it to keep it all on an laying flat. They will need to dry overnight.