Easy Yarn Wrapped Flowers for Spring or Mother’s Day

Lovely yarn wrapped flowers for any occassion – though this little flower craft is perfect as a fun Mother’s Day Gift, for spring and summer. We love Yarn Wrapping – as it is a great little fine motor skills craft for preschoolers and looks so cute! We have a number of great projects for you browse from Yarn Wrapped Shamrocks to Yarn Wrapped Apples.. but today.. it is all about the Yarn Wrapped Flower!

Today’s craft is designed to be made with easily accesisble materials! I will show you how to make your very own flower template with easy steps to follow! No printable or priner needed.. just some super basic supplies – cardboard, yarn and scissors. Let’s take a peak!

Yarn wrapping is a fantastic craft for preschoolers!

Supplies needed to make these Yarn Flower Decorations

• Recycled cardboard – a cardboard box is perfect
• Two different sized bowls/ cups to trace
• Pencils/ Pens
• Scissors
• Yarn scraps
• Pink paper scraps for cheeks (optional)

Yarn Wrapped Flowers Video Tutorial

As with many of my crafts (sadly not all! ha), I do have a video tutorial here (as well as on YouTube), but have also created step by step photos and written instructions in case you prefer these!

Yarn Wrapped Flowers Step by Step

You will see that make your own flower template is really easy and you and your preschooler will making these yarn wrapped flowers in now time!

Make your own template – trace two circles

You will need to find some bowls or cups in different sizes to trace. As it turns out a regular cereal bowl and the BASE of a kids’ cup I had felt like perfect dimensions to me.

Trace the bowl.

Find the centre of the circle (you may have to move the cup a few times) and trace as well.

You should now have to concentric circles.

Mark out the petals distances and cut

Using a pen add details to the centre circle for the flower face.

Now you will need to mark out where the petals will go. The easiest way to space these out, is to mark “top bottom left and right” first (white arrows).

Then go half way between these to get teh 45 degree angles (black arrows).

Cut out your basic circle.

Cut the petal shapes

Now you need to make your petals. Make straight cuts from your 8 marks to the centre of the flower.

Now shape each of these cuts into a petal.

Make small cuts & start yarn wrapping

Time to get yarn wrapping. You will need to make small cuts into each petal (so it looks a bit like a feather) to help “trap” the wrapped yarn. Else the yarn will slide around a bit.

We made these little cuts, as we went along. Wrapping one petal at the time.

When all petals have been wrapped, cut the string and tie a knot on the back.

Add finishing touches to your yarn wrapped flowers

Now cut some more string and tie one of the petals for hanging.

Add any finishing touches if you wish.. I cut out some rosy cheeks and glue those on!

Your Yarn Wrapped Flowers are FINISHED! Aren’t they cute?!

Love this craft? We have some more great Mother’s Day crafts for preschoolers here, or be inspired by our extensive set of Flower Crafts for Kids!