This handprint sunflower craft is easy and so fun to make, and looks glorious!
Easy handprint sunflower craft
Click here to download your copy of the Sunflower School curriculum and printables.
I do love handprint crafts, and this one is glorious. These handprint sunflowers look great as an individual piece of art – imagine a whole wall filled with them! – and they are also the perfect thing to place at the top of your sunflower height chart.
For this project you will need:
large sheet of paper
yellow paint
paper plate
extra paper plates or shallow dish
scissors
stapler
black or brown tissue paper
glue
How to make a handprint sunflower
Set out a large piece of paper with a plate/dish of yellow paint.
Make lots of handprints.
Once the handprints are dry, cut them out with scissors.
Glue or staple the cut-out handprints around the outer edge of a paper plate, over lapping them to create the petals of your sunflower.
Scrunch up small pieces of black or brown tissue paper and glue them into the centre of your paper plate to be the sunflower seeds.
A family or class can collaborate to create a sunflower with handprints from the whole group. Alternatively everyone can make their own sunflower and you can create a garden of them.
You can make a stalk from a garden cane, or from card, and fix your sunflower on top.
The handprint sunflower is also the perfect topper for our sunflower height chart project.
Sunflower School curriculum and printables
Click here to download your copy of the Sunflower School curriculum.
The Sunflower School curriculum matches a full programme of learning to the natural growing cycle of sunflowers.
It gives you six units of learning:
:: In the spring we’ll focus on planting and watching our plants grow.
:: In the summer we’ll learn about bees and pollination, and celebrate the gorgeous blooms through art.
:: In the late summer and early autumn we’ll turn our attention to harvesting, sustainability, and closing of the growing year.
Bonus sunflower printables
Our Sunflower School curriculum comes with 30 pages of bonus printables that you can use with your children to enrich their learning, including:
- My Sunflower Journal printable
- Lined, plain, and half-and-half journal pages
- Sunflower poems printable
- Sunflower sticker sheet
- Printable plant labels
- Sunflower counting mat
- Sunflower addition mat
- Sunflower subtraction mat
- Sunflower word mats
- Bee number cards
- Bee writing and scissor skills pages
- Garden Creatures page
- Honeycomb alphabet
- Printable seed packets
Click here to download the complete set of Sunflower School resources.
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!!
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 🙂
https://funhandprintart.blogspot.com/2011/08/handprint-sunflower-round-up-saturdays.html
I love this, I’m doing it!