Our favorite craft materials, namely egg carton, paper, pipe cleaners and the like, are once again used to make cute early bloomers. How about starting with the first spring flowers and making snowdrops?
Even though it's still winter when they bloom, they create a pleasant spring mood because we know: It won't be long until the days get sunnier and warmer. And until then, just use cold, dark afternoons for nice crafts to get in the mood.
Make snowdrops with egg carton and pipe cleaners
If you want it to be particularly quick and easy, the egg carton cups are simply perfect as a base! Because all you have to do is cut them out and paint them. No shaping, gluing or complex redesigning with templates is necessary, which makes the idea perfect if you want to make snowdrops in kindergarten.
- Eiercarton
- green pipe cleaner
- Scissors, preferably pointed, so that you can also use them for piercing
- Acrylic paints in white and green
How to make crafts with the egg carton – instructions:
- Cutfrom the egg cartonFor each snowdrop, take a cup, a longer tip and the tip of an egg carton tip.
- Then cut out the cup in a wave shape to form three petals.
- Paint the cup and long tip with white acrylic paint.
- Paint the cut tip of the cardboard tip green again. Also use the green paint to paint the green decoration on the white lace.
- Allow the paints to dry and then poke holes in the tops of each element.
- Take the pipe cleaner and put it first through the green element, then through the cup and finally through the white tip and you get the complete flower.
- Bend the end of the pipe cleaner that is inside the flower so that the wire can no longer slip out. At the top end, bend the wire downwards so that the flower can hang down like a bell.
- You can decorate flower pots, vases or other things in the house with the snowdrops.
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Snowdrops as a window picture - silhouettes in a round frame
You can make such romantic snowdrops using tracing paperDecorate windows. Not only white paper is suitable, but it is the perfect choice for a more puristic look. Feel free to combine with some color like yellow circles for a sun or a bunch of green grass.
- Templates for snowdrops and frames (you can also draw the motif freehand and the frame using a compass)
- white tracing paper (or any other color) or tissue paper
- normal, white paper
- Scissors/cutter with base
- Hole punch (or something else to poke a hole for hanging)
- String for hanging
- Glue (if you use glue stick, avoid accidentally applying larger pieces as they may later be visible through the transparent paper)
Make snowdrops with a printable template:
- First, print or draw the ring and cut it out. You need two pieces per window picture. You can use its size as a guide if you want to draw your own snowdrops.
- Now prepare the snowdrop silhouette by either tracing and cutting it out or printing out the template, cutting it out, tracing it onto white paper and cutting it out again.
- Now cut out two circles from the tissue/transparent paper that go approximately to the middle of the rings (design one and then use it as a template for the second).
- You can also cut out elements for mountains if you want.
- Glue one of the two circles onto one of the rings.
- Arrange your picture on it. For example, start with the mountains and glue them together and onto the circle.
- The flowers are added last.
- Finish with the second transparent circle and then the second ring.
- Poke a hole in the top of the ring and tie twine (or secure it to the disk with tape). That's itWindow picture for springcomplete.
Free ring and snowdrop template
Sweet pendants for the winter bouquet
Winter bouquets made from twigs are often quite bare, but in principle that is intentional. But if that's too boring for you, you can add a few matching pendants. Snowflakes would probably be the first thing that comes to mind, but they are far from the only possibilities. How about these incredibly cute snowdrop figurines you toodo with kindergarten childrencould?
- white felt
- Wooden beads in three sizes: a large one in natural color, a medium size in white and a small one in green (or paint them yourself)
- Felt-tip pens (green, red, black)
- Yarn
- Hot glue
How to make the pendants in January with children:
- Make the snowdrop flowers out of felt. Cut out 6 small petals from the felt and color the tips of half of them green with a felt pen.
- Take a piece of yarn of desired length and fold it in half.
- Thread the loop of yarn through the smallest bead (the green one) and set it aside.
- Glue the white pearl to the large, natural colored one.
- Draw a face.
- Glue the loop of yarn to the head.
- First glue the three petals with the green tips on top and then the remaining three above them.
- Slide the green bead down onto your head and secure it there with hot glue.
- Tie the yarn together and hang your first snowdrop.
Make snowdrops out of paper for greeting cards or pictures
You can easily fold the snowdrop flowers to create pictures or greeting cards with a 3D effect. Not only regular craft paper is suitable for this project. If you want, you can use the snowdrops toomake from crepe paper.
- white paper
- green paper
- any paper as a background
- Cotton pads or regular cotton wool
- Scissors
- Glue
How to make snowdrops out of crepe paper (or construction paper)and cotton wool:
- Cut out plenty of leaves/stems from the green paper and distribute them on the card or the selected background. Do not attach the entire leaves, only the lower part.
- Using a pencil, bend the leaves and stems outward to create a 3D effect on them too.
- For the flowers you need white teardrop shapes. It's best to cut out a teardrop shape and use it as a template for all others.
- You need three petals per flower, always folding two of them in half lengthwise.
- Glue the tip of the unfolded element to one of the stems.
- Now take one of the folded elements, apply glue to one outside and stick it to the flat petal that you just glued on. The other side should now stick up. Repeat with the last petal and all other flowers.
- Finally, spread cotton wool on the lower part to imitate snow. You can also see the inside ofUse cotton pads.
More ideas for snowdropscan be found here.
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