Accordion Folded Spring Flower Collage - jacksonforded

Tomorrow is the first day of take a hop! We're remove to a very rainy set off around Hera – our sign could by all odds use some spring color to brighten things up.

To welcome spring, we ready-made cheery flower collages on accordian-folded strips of cardboard for a spring flower collage. They stand up on my cape and make us dream about gardens full of blooming flowers. Aren't they pretty?

accordian fold spring flowers collage

You'Re going to love this super well-off spring craft. Grab your kiddos and get weaving here. You will need some sturdy paper, poster board, or light slant cardboard for your base. I cut a cereal grass box into iii strips for our project. Accordion fold your strips, so your finished piece will be able to stand.

cereal box accordian fold

Clip to forgather your stem collage items. I gathered these too soon and presented my girls with a "stem sideboard." Your kids might enjoy portion you with this step, too.

Squeeze box Folded Spring Flower Collage

Supplies:

plastic straws
pipe dry cleaners
strips of colored & moire paper
felt
craftsmanship sparkle
narration
laurel wreath
popsicle sticks, painted green
green magnetic tape
draw stems with green crayons, markers, blusher, etc.

flower collage stem ideas

Instructions:

At one time you have all your stem materials gathered, glue, tape, and draw stems on your board. Be prepared – pipe cleaners take a raft of glue to stick! Set this aside to dry while you work on your flowers.

spring flowers collage

There are many an opposite ways to make your flowers – employment what you have on pass! This is a great meter to role up extra craft supplies. We cut circles and tulip shapes forbidden of watercolor paper. The girls made designs with oil pastels and crayons, followed aside water-color painting.

If you'rhenium needing other ideas for flowers try there: cinnnamon colored paper shapes, mini cupcake papers, prime pictures cut from magazines and catalogs, or flower stickers.

spring flowers collage

When your flowers are ended and dry, attach them to your stems. We used a compounding of glue stick and white glue for this portion. Glue dots would also work great, with no drying time. Using glue is good hand-eye coordination do.

glueing spring flowers

That's it! Undemanding right? Now you have some gay flowers to tide you over boulder clay the real ones are blooming. Display this connected your mantelpiece, in your child's room, on the fridge, surgery hang it from the wall. My girls also decided these would make great backdrops for their Playmobil and animal plant-ups. So large fun!

spring flowers collage

Happy Spring everyone!

Amy

Amy is happiest surrounded by her married man, her tierce amazing kids, stacks of books, and craft supplies. With a background in psychological science, infancy training, and elementary teaching, Amy is a patron of playing dress-upbound, excavation in the dirt, and squeezing down puddles of glue. At her blog, Let's Explore, Amy shares her family's experiences creating, imagining, and playing unneurotic.