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Kids Crafts: Flower Collage

May 27, 2020

Welcome back to our weekly easy kids crafts! We decided to make a collaborative Arty Flower Collage.

We save all the tissue paper and wrapping paper from the flowers and collected more over the weeks that followed. It was also a very timely craft, as Red Ted is doing lots of things about “growing” and flowers in nursery. So it is nice when our home activities tie in with those at school. We put a photo of our finished craft in his homework book!

First published in May 2011

A print out of the photo of this craft will be going into our Art Calendar for May!

The Flower Picture book:

Planting a Rainbow

Planting a Rainbow, Lois Ehlert

Firstly, I want to say, how much I am being (positively) influenced by my American crafty blog friends – Lois Ehlert is another author I came across thanks to them. It is what I love about blogging: the world becomes very small all of a sudden and I am inspired by people from the US, Canada, Down Under, Scandinavia and Croatia to name but a few… And Ehlert is of course a “classic” in the States. So here we are: Planting A Rainbow.

Planting a Rainbow is a beautifully illustrated book about well.. erm.. planting a rainbow: it begins with a trip to the garden centre to buy bulbs and seeds. It then shows them growing and turning into beautiful flowers. Wonderfully illustrated and colourful. Talking about lots of different pretty flowers. However not one our “favourites”.. as some of the drawings are a little to abstract for us – e.g. the daffodil looks like a star or sunflower to Red Ted. Also, we like to get excited about plants that turn into fruit and vegetables – especially since we have a lot of tomato and strawberry plants in our garden. But it is still a lovely book – especially for flower loving families. Pip Squeak (18mths) however adores all the colours. And it is a great book that you can use to explore the both flowers and rainbows! So I guess it is down to personal tastes and interests!

The Arty Flower Collage Craft

We decided to make a big bouquet of flowers! I had a rather “grand” idea of taking all the wonderful flower craft posts that have recently been linked to kids get crafty and create this “awesome collage”.

We decided that we needed to keep things simple!

So we made some Tissue Paper Flowers and we cut out lots of leaves and “blossoms” from the clear printed wrapping paper that the flowers came in.

Art Flower Collage Materials

  • One large sheet of paper (we used some off a roll),
  • paint for background and vase (the vase is made from an old craft where we used poppy husks to stamp with),
  • tissue paper,
  • pipecleaners,
  • paper,
  • clear foil with leaf and blossom prints,
  • scissors and glue.

How to make your Flower Collage with Preschoolers

1) First we painted out background – Red Ted did the sky (and decided to add clouds), Pip Squeak did the grass

2) We cut out a vase from an old craft and stuck it on

3) We stuck on our leaves and blossom

tissue paper flowers
tissue paper flower

4) Made some tissue paper flowers: cut out 4 circles of tissue paper (all salvaged from the bunch of flowers/ gifts) – pierce with pipecleaner and twist to make a little centre. We also cut out yellow circles and Red Ted practice his cutting skills but cutting some petals out and some “red centre bits”. We also cute out pink petal shapes and added scrunched up tissue paper as the centres.

Paper flowers

5) Glue on

Sit back and enjoy!

See more wonderful Flower Crafts for Kids here:

Fun flower crafts
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Filed Under: Flowers, Kids Craft, Spring 42 Comments

Comments

  1. Scuttlebutter says

    May 25, 2011 at 10:02 am

    thanks, love these. These will be the Sunday craft of the week ๐Ÿ˜‰

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  2. maria says

    May 25, 2011 at 10:04 am

    What a lovely bunch of flowers! We love making flowers too:)

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  3. Esther says

    May 25, 2011 at 12:03 pm

    Beautiful bunch of flowers! The book looks so colorful. Thanks for sharing!

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  4. Red Ted Art says

    May 25, 2011 at 12:45 pm

    Oh how lovely to have them as Sunday Craft! Thank you!

    Maria – yes, I saw your wonderful poppies… they are fabulous!

    Esther – thank you ๐Ÿ™‚

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  5. se7en says

    May 25, 2011 at 12:50 pm

    Since the theme is flowers… sent you some, enjoy!!! Thanks for hosting!!!

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  6. Red Ted Art says

    May 25, 2011 at 4:37 pm

    Oooh fab! Love flowers! ๐Ÿ™‚

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  7. mermaid says

    May 25, 2011 at 10:36 pm

    Your artwork is LOVELY!

    Sending you some flowers as well.

    Reply
  8. Roopa @ Putti prapancha says

    May 26, 2011 at 2:24 am

    Beautiful bunch of flowers!! Thanks for hosting the linky and sharing our pista shell flowers ๐Ÿ™‚

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  9. Red Ted Art says

    May 26, 2011 at 9:03 am

    Oh thank you – lovely to have more flowers join the party!

    And Roopa thought your shell flowers were lovely!

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  10. Melissa @ The Chocolate Muffin Tree says

    May 26, 2011 at 1:08 pm

    Love the book and the project!

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  11. Olive Tree says

    May 26, 2011 at 2:26 pm

    Lovely idea for children crafts activity. Thank you for stopping by at my blog earlier and commenting.

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    • Red Ted Art says

      May 26, 2011 at 2:32 pm

      My pleasure and ditto!

      Reply
  12. Janelle says

    May 26, 2011 at 3:10 pm

    Ehlert is from Wisconsin, and we had the pleasure of attending one of her book signings last fall. Love your craft!

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    • Red Ted Art says

      May 26, 2011 at 5:19 pm

      Oooh you are lucky! And thank you!!

      Reply
  13. Amy @ Hope Is the Word says

    May 26, 2011 at 7:07 pm

    WE LOVE Ehlert, and I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE the craft! Thanks for linking up to RAT!

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    • Red Ted Art says

      May 26, 2011 at 7:52 pm

      Oh thank you Amy! ๐Ÿ™‚ you are lovely!

      Reply
  14. Lori/ Beneath the Rowan Tree says

    May 26, 2011 at 9:55 pm

    Love this!
    Great for so many ages, too!
    I would love if you would share this at our weekly Playdate at http://beneaththerowantree.blogspot.com/2011/05/new-and-improved-playdate-link-party.html

    Cheers!
    Lori
    http://www.beneaththerowantree.com
    Come & Play :: Playdate

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  15. Charlene @ Adventures In Mommy Land says

    May 27, 2011 at 6:27 pm

    Aww that came out great and looking at the links, you weren’t the only one inspired by all the flower posts lately!

    Thanks for popping by my blog and saying hello!

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  16. Anna @ The Imagination Tree says

    May 28, 2011 at 3:06 pm

    Beautiful collage! That’ll cheer you up every rainy day ๐Ÿ™‚

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  17. jfb57 says

    May 28, 2011 at 4:19 pm

    I love the 3d effect of these Maggy! Thank you for linking ot the Resource Centre!

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  18. Almost Unschoolers says

    May 28, 2011 at 11:18 pm

    Going simple was a good idea – they turned out beautifully!

    Reply
  19. Aimee says

    May 30, 2011 at 1:20 am

    I am a huge fan of Van Gogh- and I think he would be pretty jealous of these flowers! Thanks for linking up with The Sunday Showcase- I added a craft to yours ๐Ÿ˜‰

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  20. Natalie says

    May 30, 2011 at 2:55 am

    So pretty – what a fantastic idea! Thanks for joining WMCIR!

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  21. Red Ted Art says

    May 31, 2011 at 8:55 pm

    Oh my, to be compared to Van Gogh.. Aimee that is just too lovely a thing to say!! Must go and look at the Sunflowers with Red Ted now.. we have a nice artbook we can look at!

    Thanks to you all for you oh lovely comments ๐Ÿ˜‰

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  22. Liz Burton says

    May 31, 2011 at 8:57 pm

    That looks beautiful. Really soft and delicate – and you don’t have to change the water in the vase which is a bonus!

    Great to meet you and Red Ted today x

    Reply
  23. Mama Pea Pod says

    May 31, 2011 at 10:30 pm

    Oh, this is beautiful! I love the idea of recycling old artwork into new pieces! I always feel guilty throwing the kids’ old art away.

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  24. Stacey says

    June 1, 2011 at 6:42 pm

    How about making their own African Masks? Explain the purposes behind the masks, their uses, beliefs, etc., and have them make their own!

    Tribal Art Hunter

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  25. Aimee says

    June 5, 2011 at 12:28 am

    Hello there mama- just stopping by to let you know that we featured this craft this week at The Sunday Showcase! Have a great weekend!

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  26. Debbie Clement says

    June 5, 2011 at 2:02 am

    Love the combination of illustrations from Ehlert’s picture book, thru the process. Three cheers for simplicity.

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  27. Red Ted Art says

    June 5, 2011 at 9:00 am

    Aimee – ooh thank you! Very much appreciated!!

    And Debbie – yes, simplicity is often best!! Especially when crafting with kids!

    Reply
  28. Messy Missy says

    June 5, 2011 at 8:48 pm

    I just wanted to let you know that I featured this adorable craft in this post: http://marvelouslymessy.blogspot.com/2011/06/marvelous-mess-16-and-features.html
    Feel free to grab a featured button!!

    I’d love it if you would come back and link up again this week. I always look forward to the crafts you bring to the party!!

    Reply
  29. Red Ted Art says

    June 6, 2011 at 9:33 pm

    Oh thank you! So much appreciated! and have been back already!

    Reply
  30. Birthday Flowers says

    June 7, 2011 at 8:56 am

    What a fabulous idea! I am going to help my children make this for their nana’s birthday! Thank you for the idea ๐Ÿ™‚

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  31. Jaz says

    August 9, 2011 at 8:43 am

    Well this sure will keep my little sister busy as gift for our parents. Thanks for this idea!

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  32. Sandeep Mall says

    December 29, 2017 at 6:23 am

    Beautiful and a fun thing for kids to make, they will enjoy making it.

    Reply
    • Red Ted Art says

      December 29, 2017 at 4:04 pm

      thanks!

      Reply

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