Kids Activity - Paper Flowers in an Altered Vase

June 10, 2020

Kids Activity - Paper Flowers in an Altered Vase

Hello,

I'm here to share an activity I loved teaching and doing along with my 5-year-old daughter Bhuvi. It is a great way to engage kids during these quarantine days, and have fun at the same time.

These are simple paper flowers using the fringe technique and we also made a vase to hold the flowers. Have a look at what we made!

All you need to do this vase are below:

1. Colored papers

2. Scissors

3. Straws

4. Glue

5. Waste plastic box/jar

6. Papers and embellishments to decorate

I took a few colored A4 sheets and cut them into strips of around 3-4 inches wide. I then drew a pencil line across the long side, for my daughter to cut the fringes. She used scissors to cut up to the pencil mark. After she finished around 2-3 strips with wide fringes, I asked her to make them thinner so the flowers look more beautiful. And here is what she did! Wow!! I was amazed at all those tiny straight cuts, all along the way! Even I wouldn't be able to consistently do it! For the age of 5, I never expected this from her! Super proud mom here! :)

We then used straws from juice boxes as our stem. We glued one of the paper around the straw and rolled them tight. Once done, adhere the ends and open up the flowers. They are ready :) We made a couple more in baby pink and yellow papers.

For the vase, we used a plastic box, I believe it was whipped cream :) Bhuvi used it to store some tiny jewels and doll house objects in it :) So, we wrapped the box using a pink patterned paper, and decorated the bottom with a pink lace. She loves all pink, so here we are! She also added a couple of sequins and star embellishments over the patterned paper, to add some bling. To cover the top portion, I die-cut a scalloped stitched circle using Gina Marie Stitched Scalloped Circle dies, from pink cardstock and adhered it to the mouth of the box. We filled the box with some marbles and added the flowers to them, to complete :)