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Daffodil bunting

Cathy @ NurtureStore — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 20:37:19 +0000

Welcome spring into your home this week than with a daffodil craft. We used recycled card and egg boxes to make this daffodil bunting – here’s how to make it.

Start by looking at some real daffodils with your children, counting the petals and talking about the shapes and patterns.
Draw out some daffodil ‘star’ shapes onto card, either freehand or by using a template.
Paint your daffodils yellow. We used a sponge to apply our paint and enjoyed using a different technique to our usual paint brushes and noticed the patterns we created were just like the real flowers.
Cut out your daffodils once the paint has dried. We used a fairly thin card and the wet paint made the card bend a little as it dried – which turned out to be perfect as it gave the daffodils a more 3D shape.

Cut out the centre part of some egg boxes to make the trumpets for the daffodils and paint them yellow or orange. Paint them inside and out.
Once the trumpets are a dry, glue one into the centre of each daffodil star using craft glue and leave the daffodils flat until the glue dries.
Attach some wool, string or ribbon on to the back of each daffodil using sticky tape and then hang up your daffodil bunting to decorate your home.

For more daffodil craft ideas have a look at our daffodil pinwheel craft.

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St. David’s day craft

Cathy @ NurtureStore — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 00:09:16 +0000

Spring is in the air! Well almost, but you can cheat a bit and fill your house with gorgeous flowers with this idea for a daffodil windmill. It’s very easy to make and the children can have lots of fun blowing it and making it spin round. You can find full instructions for how to make one in our daffodil windmill tutorial.

They’re just the thing if you’re celebrating St. David’s Day, the patron saint of Wales, on March 1st. And if you are you might like this recipe for delicious Welsh cakes.

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Daffodil windmills for St. David’s Day

Cathy @ NurtureStore — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 21:04:58 +0000

To celebrate St. David’s Day or Dydd Gŵyl Dewi Sant we have been making daffodil windmills today. I think they look so cheery that they’d be great to make on any Spring day – and a vase of them would make a lovely Mothers’ Day gift. Here’s how we made them.

You’ll need: yellow card (or card and yellow paint), green card, a egg box, a paper fastener, yellow and/or orange paint, a small paint brush, a stapler, a ruler, a pencil, a pair of scissors, (a craft knife – optional) Start by cutting a square from your yellow card. We only had white card in the house, but as Little is painting-crazy at the moment this wasn’t a problem as we did have some yellow paint. If you are going to paint you will need to paint both sides of the card. Cut out the cup part of the egg box – this is going to be the trumpet part of your daffodil. Paint it either yellow or orange, depending on what colour you would like in the centre of your flower.

Once any paint is dry you need to cut lines into the yellow square of card as shown in the photo below. You can draw the lines using the pencil and ruler and then cut along them with the scissors.

Now you need to fold in four of the edges, as shown below. Fasten them in place with a stapler.

Make a stalk for the flower by rolling a piece of the green card in to a tube. Now you’re going to use the paper fastener to join the egg box trumpet, the daffodil and the stalk all together. You can poke the paper fastener straight through the card but you might find it easier to make a hole with either the pencil or craft knife first. You want the hole to be loose enough for the daffodil to twirl around to give you the windmill effect. And there you have it – a beautiful daffodil. You could make a few of them in different shades to make a lovely spring bouquet.

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