This flower craft for kids comes in four designs, making a beautiful mixed bouquet. It’s made from simple craft supplies, is easy to make, and lovey to give as a gift of have as a decoration to celebrate spring. Here’s how to make each type of flower.
Flower craft for kids
There are four design ideas here suitable for all ages so you can pick your favourite or make them all! We’re using egg boxes, cake cases and tissue paper for the flowers. For the stems, bendy drinking straws are perfect, as you can tilt the flower heads in the vase, and pipe cleaners work well too.
Egg box flowers
These are super simple and great for toddlers as anyone can paint and sprinkle some glitter. To make them: Cut out some flower shapes from egg boxes. Mix a little glue in with your paint and then put the paint on your flowers. Sprinkle on some glitter and leave them to dry. Make a little hole in the centre of your flower and poke through a bendy drinking straw or pipe cleaner to make your stem.
Cake case flowers
These are good for younger children too, especially fans of glue and glitter. To make them: Glue a mini cake case inside a bigger one. Choose some coloured or patterned cake cases, or decorate some plain ones. You might like to turn the cake cases inside out so you can see the colours and patterns. Add a blob of glue in the centre of each flower and around the outer edge, then sprinkle on some glitter. Once they are dry you can stick a pipe cleaner or drinking straw on the back with glue or (our preference) sticky tape.
Simple tissue paper flowers
This design is better suited to slightly older children, as toddlers can find it quite tricky to use a pincer grip to scrunch up the flowers. To make them: Layer three to five squares or circles of tissue paper, whichever colours you love. Pinch the centre of the tissue paper and scrunch a little to make your flower shape. Use sticky tape to fasten the flower around a bendy drinking straw or pipe cleaner.
Opulent tissue paper flowers
I think these opulent flowers are my favourite of the four styles but they’re a little tricky for younger children who find the concept of folding one way, then the other, to make the concertina shape a little difficult. You can of course give them a try but your toddler and pre-schoolers might find the other designs easier to make themselves.
To make the opulent flowers: Layer four rectangular pieces of tissue paper (we used approx. 10cm by 30cm sizes). Fold them in a zigzag concertina shape. Fasten in the centre with a piece of thread or yarn (or wrap with your pipe cleaner stalk). Open out the concertina on each side.
Then, crinkle up each layer of tissue paper to make the ruffled petals. (If you’re not using pipe cleaners) thread a drinking straw through the thread at the back, bend it over and use some sticky tape to hold your stalk in place.
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How lovely! Neat Ideas! We had also created Egg foam flowers. We had mod podged tissue paper to the egg foams. May be during spring break we will try to make daffodil flowers and the tissue paper flowers!
I love them – great ideas. I think we will try both 1 and 4.
Beautiful flowers! I really like them:)
C:)
you have such lovely ideas on your site! my daughter is now 19 months old and we have so much fun doing the activities you share with us. today is a perfect day for making flowers 😉 thank you for keeping our days so filled with fun xoxo
Thank you Shireen – have fun making the flowers!
Oh my goodness! I love everything about this project! I adore vibrant colors and glitter. I am definitely saving it to do one day!
Thanks so much!
Kerri
BEAUTIFUL FLOWERS! I love tissue paper projects!
Great ideas for flowers! I also like making cut outs of hands, and wrapping them around straws to make them look like lilies.
That’s a lovely ideas Holly – I always like handprint crafts. Thanks for the idea.
ooh, great ideas! Thanks!
Wow, I made so many tissue paper flowers as a kid. I cannot believe I’ve not tried it with my kids. Thanks for the reminder.
These are fab! Thank you so much for linking up to the Resource Centre! There are so many teachers out there who get stuck for ideas! See you next week!
lovely bouquet! thanks so very much for sharing on Craft schooling Sunday!
This is such a great idea! I like how it turned out, I would display this… DEFINITELY!!!
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-Karli
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Thanks for the great ideas! I remember making the opulent tissue paper flowers a ton as a kid – they turn out so pretty!
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I love those tissue paper flowers!
These are so fun! Thanks for sharing such a great tutorial!
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Oh my! What a fabulous bouquet! And so many different types of flowers! I love them all! How wonderful!
Maggy
(And thanks for the Kids Get Crafty link!)
Beautiful! I love seeing all the different flowers in one big bouquet!
Those are so cute!!! A great spring project for the kids!
Thank you so much for sharing this at last week’s For the Kids Friday link party! This week’s party is up and running. If you haven’t already stopped by, I’d love to have you sharing again this week!
https://sunscholars.blogspot.com/2011/04/for-kids-friday-6.html
:)rachel
Brilliant site and gorgeous idea. I have four kids of different ages and it can be difficult to stimulate them all at the same time. The wee ones are doing the egg box ones and bigger the opulent ones. Thank you.
Thanks Victoria. I have an age gap with my girls so I’m always trying to think of something that suits them all – glad you liked this idea.
I once made over two hundred of those tissue paper flowers for a play prop in high school, but I’ve never made them with my kids! Time to change that!!!
Thanks for linking up to the all year round spring carnival =)
These are great and no reason we can’t make them for fathers day so thanks
Such pretty flowers! Thanks so much for sharing them with our Spring Carnival 🙂