Crafts
Mother's Day
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Henry and I had a little fun making some tissue paper flowers! We made two different types of tissue paper flowers for my mom’s Mother’s Day craft that kids can make!
Tissue Paper Flowers on Contact Paper:
Henry got to work cutting up different colors of tissue paper (sneaking in some scissors practice). I had tissue paper with dots and stars on it, too. Those were his favorites.
I laid out a piece of contact paper, right side up on the table. (I took a tip from Melissa at The Chocolate Muffin Tree and taped down the edges so it wouldn’t curl up.)
Henry and I stuck the pieces of tissue paper that he cut onto the contact paper to make a tissue paper collage. Then flattened them out as much as possible, and covered with another piece of contact paper.
I got my cutting practice in too! I cut lots of flower shapes out of the tissue paper collage.
Henry chose buttons and pipe cleaners for each flower and I hot glued them on.
Speaking of pipe cleaners, Henry got a kick out of making shapes with them. He made a T at first and was thrilled that he could do it. Then made an R and a bridge!
Tissue Paper Flowers:
We also made flowers out of just the tissue paper. We made these for the Valentine’s Tissue Wreath, only this time Henry drew on the circles with markers instead of dipping them in paint.
Happy Mother’s Day Mom!
I featured five Mother’s Day ideas on It’s Playtime this week, too!
More Mother’s Day craft ideas:
It’s Playtime! : Mother’s Day
Wrapped Yarn Vase Craft for Mother’s Day
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I cut lots of flower shapes
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Flappy Bird says
So creative
tiny fishing says
impressive. It’s definitely a gift that mom loves on Mother’s Day. It not only shows the love of the doer and the receiver but also strengthens the emotional attachment between mother and child.
foodle says
I think it’s great that your son is getting practice with his fine motor skills and that you both got a nice present out of the activity. How original!
diy Thought says
Love the flowers, my wife and kids made their own version using – We would love for you to have a go and let us know what you think http://www.diythought.com/diy-paper-pipe-cleaner-flowers/
Marlene says
Such a sweet idea ! Thanks so much for linking up to Good Tips Tuesday! This is going to be one of our featured posts! :)
Heather H says
I love projects like this one – your son gets fine motor practice AND you end up with a sweet gift. Very creative!
Jolanthe says
What a cute craft!
Ruby Saul says
So Cute, like the paper craft.
Francesca Kotomski (@exerciseyourway) says
What do you do with left over scraps from this project?
Faigie says
I’ll bet after they cover up the contact paper with the other piece and u give them some pictures of flowers, that they can draw different flowers on the contact paper & cut them out themselves
Kristen @ Busy Kids = Happy Mom says
Love this! I just added this to the 25 Kid Crafted Gifts Tutorial!
Becky @ UCreate with Kids says
I love this. I featured in on UCreate with Kids.
Raising a Happy Child says
This is great – I plan to reuse our Easter tree for flower crafts, and this one will be perfect.
Monica says
Very cute! I like contact paper projects…little ones can have fun sort of throwing things onto it, and then it can be cut to look "like something".
Hannah Sommerville says
These look beautiful! I love handmade flowers.
Ps. Thanks for mentioning my blog on Facebook last week. I have been on holidays without internet access and it was a lovely surprise to come home to :)
Elle Belles Bows says
Very cute!!!
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Melissa @ The Chocolate Muffin Tree says
Really cute! Great idea!
Anna @ The Imagination Tree says
Those are gorgeous! I hope you saved some for yourself!