Making flowers with children

"Colorful craft ideas at the beginning of spring"

At the beginning of the spring, the right decoration should not be missing in order to welcome the beautiful seasons. Crafting flowers with children is a wonderful way to dress the home in colorful splendor. You can find out creative handicrafts here.

Flowers are a popular handicraft motif for children in spring

Flowers are a popular handicraft motif for children in spring

Hurray, spring is there

As soon as the days get warmer again and spring is honored with its presence, the first flowers thrive in all their variety of colors. Snowdrops, crocuses, tulips and the like say goodbye to winter and announce the beginning of the sunny seasons.

Flowers are not only found in nature and in the garden, they also represent a great decoration in the house - whether real plants or homemade decoration in floral motifs. Crafting flowers with children is an employment that is young and old alike fun.

Preparations: You should have this handicraft material ready

Nature provides us with the most beautiful patterns for inspired craft ideas. A look out and you can see countless suggestions. With the corresponding Craft material Many creations can be realized in a simple way.

You should have the following materials in your handicraft box:

Nuscheli, plain colors

Tassel Flower: simple and quick

Let's start with the so -called Tassel Flower method. A perhaps not yet known, but still a great way to make flowers with children. All you need for this are thread cords in different colors, handicraft wire or pepper cleaner as well as forks. An incredibly simple and great way to create spring flowers in different colors.

Wrap the handicraft wire

Take a little handicraft wire and wrap it with green thread cords. Alternatively, you are also welcome to use Pfeiffen cleaner/chenille wire in green here.

Fread cord 5m piece

Wrap the thread cord around fork and chopsticks

Now take the fork on hand and put the wire right next to the first tines. Now look for a thread cord for your choice and wrap it around the fork and the chopstick between 20-30 times. Now put the upper end of the wire over it and attach it to just put it over once or twice. Fix the end of the flower cords below the wrapped flower.

The last step

Now just pull out the fork. Take the scissors and simply cut the upper part completely. In this way, countless, individual petals are created.

Tip: In the way described above, you always get single -colored flowers. With a little skill and practice you can use different colors and thus create colorful flowers.

Crafts spring flowers in their diverse splendor from fabric

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

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

Tinking flowers with children does not always have to be limited to crepe paper and colored paper. With fabrics you also have a versatile material that is ideal for designing flowers. For our fabric flowers you need, among other things:

  • cardboard
  • Nuscheli in different colors
  • Hot glue
  • Thread cords
  • Wooden beads

Distinguish forms

First record different petals on the cardboard. Be sure to vary the size and shape. In this way, beautiful unique and individual pieces are created. In nature, the flowers don't always look just the same. Also draw several circles on which the petals are later attached.

Pre -paint the template on cardboard

Pre -paint the template on cardboard

Wrap the flowers with fabrics and glue

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

Place the individual petals free around the circles as desired. You are welcome to let individual leaves overlap. There are no limits to your imagination. It is best to fix these elements with hot glue.

Craft beads for decorative rounding

You can set pretty accents in the middle of the flower with small pearls. Use a wide and stable needle here. Thread different wooden beads in the middle.

Linse beads large 14mm

Crafting these flowers is anything but difficult and therefore well suited to help even small children help. You are welcome to attach these flowers to a wooden stick and set up as a decoration. But these floral eye -catchers also look very nice as a wall jewelry.

Spring flowers made of pearls

Designing a pretty flower made of pearls is one of the most beautiful craft ideas. There is something for every age and even the smallest helps with joy. An abundance of different handicraft beads is now waiting to be used during spring tinkering.

  

Before you start, it is best to get on your pearls. In terms of color, it is then much faster and clearer. The handicraft wire is also important. This serves as a basic element.

Cut the wire and prepare petals

Cut the handicraft wire into different lengths. As craft ideas for small children, it is advisable to choose pieces of the same time. Older children are welcome to work with different lengths. Now form petals. These can have a drop shape, be round or just elongated. Nature itself gives you the best handicraft ideas for this.

Cut the handicraft wire for threading in different lengths

Cut the handicraft wire for threading in different lengths

Threading handicrafts

Get off and now thread the different pearls to your heart's content. Feel free to vary plain colors and colorful. After threading, close the end in which you simply knot it well. You can now place this wonderful bloom as a table decoration or put together as a small bouquet. For this purpose, the flowers are attached to small wooden rods. You are also welcome to use small branches from the garden. This gives this spring decoration a natural flair.

Tinker flowers with children: become creative and try it out

You have now received three beautiful and also simple handicraft tips with step-by-step instructions that you can easily implement with children. Now it is up to you to become design and create a beautiful spring decoration for your home.

Greet spring with this pretty decoration. The handicrafts with children sell the last dark hours and with the wonderful handicrafts for children are now different tasks for you

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