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Regular readers will know we’ve been running a Sunflower Club over the last few months, with families around the world joining us growing sunflowers and having fun with lots of linked activities. I thought you might like to see how our own sunflowers are getting on.
Here’s one we grew:
And here’s one we made:
Now, I hear some of you have sunflowers that are, shall we say, a little vertically challenged? Fear not – with this handprint sunflower you can make it just as tall as you like!
Here’s how: have fun making lots of handprints, cut them out and then staple them around a paper plate. Scrunch up some black tissue paper (which is fantastic exercise for fine motor skills!) and glue into the centre.
We have one more Sunflower Club activity for you, coming up in the next week or so. Then, on Wednesday 25th August 2010 we would love to have a Sunflower Link-up Party. I’ll be revealing just how tall our sunflowers have grown (keeping our fingers crossed!) and my girls would *love* to see what sunflower activities you’ve been up to.
So mark Wednesday 25th August in your diaries and please come over to link up your posts and photos to the Sunflower Party.
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What a great project!!! I love hand-print art
(I am stopping over from ABC & 123)
I LOVE this! We got our sunflowers in the ground a bit late this year so I have been bracing myself for less-than-spectacular end results. Now, come what may, we WILL have awesome sunflowers!
So cute.I love it!
Ooooh, how very pretty Cathy. Love the way you used the hands to make the petals! Fabulous!
Maggy
Fantastic!!! Love this idea…thank you x
Our sunflowers have provided much joy – thank you once again for our seeds x
What an interesting interpretation, well done
Love it! I want sunflowers now.
Loving the different takes this week. Great idea to make sunflowers out of hand prints, will have to try it with mine.
I love sunflowers and those handprint flowers are fabulous
We made a peacock with the children’s handprints in many colours as his magnificent fanned tail, it was very lovely!
That’s a fantastic idea Christine – we might try one.
brilliant, both of them!! Jen
very creative!
i can’t wait to make crafty things with the children i hope to have one day =)
Oh wow, this is awesome! I didn’t know about the sunflower club, but Chipmunk has been lovingly growing his own for the last few weeks. Maybe we can link up- or are we too late?!
No, no, not too late! I’d love you to come and link up.
Love it – this is definatley one we’ll be trying soon
How cute! We made a hand print flower for Mother’s Day, but it didn’t look nearly as nice.
I love this! We grew sunflowers this year too! I need to try this with the little gardeners.
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I will have to remember this for when our summer somes around. Dadda is a big sunflower fan and we will be sure to be growing them when the time is right
That looks like so much fun
that is great love it will be bookmarking it for fall!
I have always wanted to grow sunflowers and must give it a go once the weather warms back up on this side of the world.
What a wonderful idea!! One for the to do list!!
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Love the homemade sunflower! I think we are going to have to do that because I messed up and put our sunflower in a spot with too much shade. It actually grew on the ground until it reached the sun but then got stomped in night by a passing visitor. Poor sunflower=(
Oh no Jill – poor sunflower. I’m sure you could make some just as pretty
I mentioned your awesome craft in a sunflower round up
http://funhandprintart.blogspot.com/2011/08/handprint-sunflower-round-up-saturdays.html
I love this, I’m doing it!
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