Summer is a season that is perfect for a variety of crafts with children. We'll show you some ideas on how to make a sunflower with your little ones.
Try making one of these template crafts with the kids at home. Sunflowers are loved by everyone and you can create colorful decorations for your home.
Make a sunflower out of folded paper
This folded paper sunflower craft project is so fun and easy to make! Your children will love it as a gift for grandparents or as a giftMaking decorations for the house. The process of making this paper sunflower project is really super easy.
Materials needed for making sunflowers from folded paper:
- Colorful craft paper - yellow, brown, green and various colors for the background.
- Pencil – for tracing sunflower pieces
- Lineal
- Scissors – safety scissors for younger children!
- Glue – Glue stick or liquid glue or glue dots would work well too!
- Download template
How to Make a Folded Paper Sunflower:
- Download the template and start by cutting out the petals from paper for your sunflower craft project.
- Now we will make the petals. Using one of the petal pieces, form a cone shape by bringing two sides of the circular paper together. Tape the overlapping area together. We do all the petals like this until all the pieces are glued together.
- Choose your colored paper in your favorite color. Glue the petals onto the cardboard in a circle, leaving only the bottom middle piece aside.
- Then glue the stem in place, with the top of the stem tucking into the gap at the bottom of your paper sunflower.
- Once the stem is glued in place, place the last petal over the stem and glue it in place.
- Cut out a brown round piece of construction paper to fit in the center of the flower and glue it in place.
- Cut out the leaves for your sunflower craft project from the template.
- Fold the leaves in a similar way to the petals and glue them to the stem of your paper sunflower. So the sunflower is ready.
Tips and hints:
Before you glue the pieces in place, lay them all out on the box first so you can make sure they all look exactly how you want them. When gluing the pieces, be sure to press them together until the glue can harden and hold.
Make sunflower corn syrup
So cute and pretty to display! You canthese sunflowersDIY with children and decorate your home or give as a gift to friends.
Stock up on thesepretty craftthe following materials:
- white corn syrup
- blue, red and yellow food coloring
- Sunflower seeds
- jars or containers
- Paint brush
- teaspoon
- a sheet of large white cardstock paper
- green construction paper
- Scissors
- Glue stick
- Glue gun
- Pencil
- Sunflower template
- Plastic tablecloth
DIY instructions:
- Download and use the free template for this art project. Cut the sunflower out of cardboard. Set aside.
- Now we make the colors ourselves! Start by pouring the corn syrup into three jars or paint containers. Add a few drops of red, yellow and blue food coloring to a glass and mix with a teaspoon to create a brown hue. Add a few drops of yellow and stir. Mix red and yellow colors in a third container to make orange.
- Next, trace and cut out leaves and stems from green construction paper.
- Then place the paper sunflowers, brown paint and seeds on a table covered with a plastic tablecloth. Paint the center of your sunflower brown and press seeds into it.
- Now paint the petals of your sunflower yellow or orange.
- Move the decorated sunflower onto a large white cardboard background. Glue it in place with a glue gun. Then, using a glue stick or glue gun, add a stem and leaf of green paper.
- The corn syrup paint is thick and sticky and completed sunflower art projects should be allowed to dry for a few days.
Sunflowers with playdough for children
Children love playing with play dough. And this is where you get really creative with these cute sunflowers made from play dough. Let your kids be real artists with this DIY project!
Materials required:
- Printable template of sunflowers
- Kneading mass
- Aquarelle (optional)
Sunflower instructions for children:
- Get your template. Once you've downloaded the printable sunflower, print it out onto cardstock and prepare your playdough.
- Now the children can start recreating the sunflowers. Let them play around and help them, for example with the colors and shapes.
- Play with mixing colors. If you want a darker version of any color, just mix it with some black. Kids love exploring color mixing! If you want to make the craft even more colorful, you can paint the background of the template with watercolors.
