Making flowers with children

" Colorful craft ideas for the start of spring "

At the beginning of spring, you can't do without the right decorations to welcome the beautiful season in style. Making flowers with children is a wonderful way to dress your home in colorful splendor. You can find creative craft ideas here.

Blumen sind im Frühling ein beliebtes Bastelmotiv für Kinder

Flowers are a popular craft motif for children in spring

Hooray, spring is here

As soon as the days get warmer and spring graces us with its presence, the first flowers start to bloom in all their colorful glory. Snowdrops, crocuses, tulips and the like bid farewell to winter and herald the start of the sunny season.

However, flowers are not only found in nature and in the garden, they also make great decorations in the home - whether real plants or home-made decorations in floral motifs. Making flowers with children is an activity that is fun for young and old alike.

Preparations: You should have these craft materials ready

Nature provides us with the most beautiful patterns for inspired craft ideas. One look outside and you'll see countless ideas. With the right craft materials, many creations can be easily realized.

You should have the following materials in your craft box:

Thread cords in many different colors
Nuscheli mixed colors
Craft beads
Crochet beads
Craft wire
Pipe cleaners in green
Sewing needles
Hot glue
Wooden sticks
forks
Scissors

Tassel flower: quick and easy

Let's start with the so-called tassel flower method. This may not be a well-known method, but it's still a great way to make flowers with children. All you need for this are threading cords in different colors, craft wire or pipe cleaners and forks. An incredibly simple and great way to create spring flowers in different colors.

Wrap craft wire

Take some craft wire and wrap it with green string. Alternatively, you can also use pipe cleaners/chenille wire in green.

Wrap the string around the fork and sticks

Now take the fork and place the wire directly next to the first prong. Now find a string of your choice and wind it around the fork and the stick between 20-30 times. Now place the upper end of the wire over it and secure it by simply folding it over once or twice. Secure the end of the flower strings underneath the wrapped flower.

The last step

Now simply pull out the fork. Take the scissors and simply cut the upper part completely. This will create countless individual petals.

Tip: Using the method described above, you will always end up with single-colored flowers. With a little skill and practice, you can use different colors to create colorful flowers.

Craft spring flowers in their varied splendor from fabric

Eine Stoffblume mit einem Knopf oder einer Holzperle in der Mitte

A fabric flower with a button or wooden bead in the middle

Making flowers with children doesn't always have to be limited to crepe paper and colored paper. With fabric, you also have a versatile material that is ideal for creating flowers. Among other things, you will need the following for our fabric flowers:

Cardboard
Nuscheli in different colors
Hot glue
String
Wooden beads

Pre-draw the shapes

First draw different petals on the cardboard. Be sure to vary the size and shape. This will create beautiful unique and individual pieces. After all, flowers do not always look exactly the same in nature. Also draw several circles to which the petals will later be attached.

Pre-paint the template on cardboard

Wrap the flowers with fabric and glue them on

Now color comes into play. Wrap the individual petals with the soft fabrics. Be creative and show your courage with color! The more colorful, the more lively and beautiful the flowers for your spring decorations will look.

Place the individual petals around the circles as you wish. You are welcome to overlap individual petals. There are no limits to your imagination. It is best to fix these elements in place with hot glue.

Craft beads for decorative finishing touches

You can create pretty accents in the center of the flower with small beads. Use a wide and sturdy needle for this. String various wooden beads in the middle.

Making these flowers is anything but difficult and is therefore ideal for young children to help with. You can attach these flowers to a wooden stick and display them as decoration. But these flowery eye-catchers also look great as wall decorations.

Spring flowers made from beads

Creating a pretty flower from beads is one of the most beautiful craft ideas of all. There is something for all ages and even the youngest children will love helping out. A wealth of different craft beads are now waiting to be used for spring crafting.

Before you start, it's best to lay out the beads. Sorting them by color makes it much quicker and easier. The craft wire is also important. This serves as the basic element.

Cut the wire to size and prepare the petals

Cut the craft wire into different lengths. For craft ideas for small children, it is advisable to choose pieces of the same length. Older children are welcome to work with different lengths. Now shape the petals. These can be drop-shaped, round or simply elongated. Nature itself gives you the best craft ideas for this.

Basteldraht zum auffädeln in verschiedenen Längen zuschneiden

Cut craft wire in different lengths for threading

Stringing craft beads

Get started and string the different beads to your heart's content. You can vary between plain and colorful. After threading, close the ends by simply knotting them well. You can now place these wonderful flowers as table decorations or arrange them as a small bouquet. To do this, attach the flowers to small wooden sticks. You can also use small twigs from the garden. This gives this spring decoration a natural flair.