Mother's Day/ May Day gift

• Colored paper
• twisty ties, sticks, skewers, anything you can find to be the stems of the flowers that is easily taped to paper.
• tape
• stapler

Flowers

1. Take a sheet of paper and folded it into 1/4ths. Rip or cut the paper along the fold lines.
2. Crumple up each section of the paper separately.
3. tape one stem to the paper and you have an easy flower.

Flower Basket

1. Take a sheet of paper and fold it in half. Rip or cut along fold line.
2. Measure each piece to be a square and rip or cut off the extra paper. (Save the extra)
3. hold to corners and cross them like you are making a frosting tube. Staple it in place. If there is a flap of paper feel free to tape it down.
4. Take the scrap and fold it in half the long way. Use it for the handle by stapling it onto each point of the top of the basket.

I did this today with the sunbeams, they loved it and it was something that they were very capable of doing themselves! I loved that the supplies were cheep and easy to bring to church.

Flower Banner/paper garland

I found a cool new craft book at our library this week. it's 365 things to make and do by Fiona Watts. I LOVE it and hope that it is your Library system so you guys can flip through it too.

Here is my take on one of the projects in the book. There were several examples of banners (Flowers, Pirate theme or a sports theme.)

Here are the templates that I made. All the templates are on 8 1/2 x 11 sized paper, hopefully they transfer easily for you to print out or give you a good reference for making your own templates:

Green Leaves- I needed 10 leaves for a banner on a 10 foot wall. The flower is something I put on the closet doors.

Flower template- I made 4 on pink paper and 4 on purple paper. There was enough extra paper at the bottom that I used it to cut out some extra flowers to put on the closet door.

Flower centers-cut this out of yellow paper. I cut out 8 folded centers and some round centers to add to the wall flowers I made for the room. (Then I had the idea that that these would be fun for a Hawaiian party and made a little hibiscus center to add to the folded flower, but I did not actually use it for my current project.

1. Trace and cut the flowers, leaves and flower centers out.


2. Color with a marker of a matching/similar color.


3. Use a glue stick to apply the yellow flower centers to the flowers.


4. Use masking tape to attach some green yarn to the walls and pull up the slack in the middle.


5. Put the folded flowers and leaves over the yarn.

Wall flowers:

I also made some wall flowers to put on their closet doors. I just traced them out of the patterns above, cut them and let Gwen glue the centers on to the 5 petal flowers. (It was sort of cute when it was off center.) Then I let Gwen write the letters of her name on her flowers and I wrote Maggie's name on the rest of the flowers. We taped them to the closet doors. (I hope to find some green contact paper to make some cute flower stems and lower the wall flowers on the doors to look like they are growing out of the floor.)