Do you have an empty egg carton laying around the house?
Preschoolers and kids of all ages are going to love the entire process of creating this fun spring craft.
Making each flower is a simple process by using pre-colored green craft sticks, cupcake liners and buttons.
Adding polka-dot or other patterned liners is another fun way to create some fun flowers for your garden.
Read our simple step-by-step instructions below for how to make this amazing flower garden craft.
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Instructions for making your own flower garden craft
1.
Set aside the egg carton to dry completely.
Print shapes and cut out flower pieces
Download and print out theflower craft template.
Print the flower petal shapes on green cardstock and the 2-inch circles on white cardstock.
Each page has enough pieces for six flowers.
Cut out each of the pieces of the template.
This add stability to the flower and creates a place to glue the flower onto the stem.
Use scissors to cut slits around the entire perimeter of the cupcake liner rim to make flower petals.
Glue a mini cupcake liner inside the regular one
Add glue in the center of the flower.
Slightly flatten out a mini cupcake liner and glue it down in the center of the flower.
Glue buttons inside the flower
Glue buttons on the inside of the flower.
We used these adhesive buttons.
They are amazing because they dont require any glue at all.
Simply peel the backing off and place them on the inside of the flower.
Make several flowers in different colors to plant in your flower garden.
We recommend between 5-8 flowers per egg carton.
check that the slot is long enough for the craft sticks to fit into.
Use scissors or herb scissors to cut slits along the top of the paper strip to make grass.
If you dont already have a set ofherb scissorsin your craft supplies, I highly recommend them.
See pictures above for reference.
This is ideal if you are using the flower garden for a center piece on a table.
Plant your flowers in the garden
Now comes the fun part!
Once the egg carton garden is created, children can plant each of their flowers in it.
Plant only a few flowers, or fill your garden up completely with colorful flowers.
You might even like making some extra flowers to interchange them throughout the season.
