All the DAZE Productions: Spring DAZE

Activity Ideas:
Fringed Flowers
Supplies: Construction Paper Straws Scissors Glue Stapler or Tape Cut out 3 paper circles (same or
different colors).
Child cuts a 'fringe' around each circle. Put circles together, largest on bottom, smallest on top. Add a
yellow smaller infringed circle or yellow dot sticker to the middle. Staple all together onto a drinking straw
as stem. Decorate a 'vase' made out of a whole and a half paper plate stapled together around the
edge. Put the flowers in the vase (a bit of play dough in the bottom of the vase will make them stay there)

"I use gumdrops, wooden skewers, and cookies to make a cookie bouquet. We wrap them in cellophane
and add a little curly ribbon. Here is an example...first slide on a gumdrop, then let's say a marshmallow
topped cookie, followed by another gumdrop. The gumdrops help to hold the cookie in place. I bring
several types of cookies that would work, and the children design about three cookies to complete their
bouquet." Barbara

Flower Necklace
Cut out many flower shaped cutouts in a variety of colors. Have the child decorate with markers and
crayons. Laminate the leaves (optional), then punch a hole in the stems and give the child some string
or yarn, and have them thread them on to make a necklace.

Flowers
Materials: cupcake papers, pipe cleaners, green construction paper.
Directions: Take a cupcake paper and pinch the bottom of it. Then take a pipe cleaner and wrap it
around the pinched area. Cut some leaves out of green paper and add them to the pipe cleaner.
Extension: Put some play dough in a baby food jar and have the children place the flowers in the jar like
it was a vase. When the play dough dries they should stand nice. You can also decorate some tissue
paper to cover the outside of the bottle.

Flower Craft
Dye rice and different shapes of pasta using some rubbing alcohol and food coloring. Let it dry. Take
those and have your children or students glue it on paper plates to make flowers. You can even glue
glitter or other things onto the flower. Place precut paper stem and leaves to put under the finished
flower.

Hand Print Tulips
Paint palm and fingers (with or without thumb) any color. Use finger to paint stem and leaves.

Button Bouquet
Materials: Chenille sticks, Buttons, Poster Board, Scissors, Glue
Directions: Insert a chenille stick through one hole in a button and back through the other. Twist the
ends together under the button to make a stem. Cut out several petals from poster board and glue them
together. When the petals are dry, glue them to the back of the button. Bend short pieces of chenille
sticks into leaf shapes and twist them onto the stem.

Flower DAZE