Turn any sunny afternoon into a great opportunity for an art activity by using a few flowers from the yard! Your child will learn more about the parts of a flower as well as creating a flower-filled artwork.
What You Need:
- Fresh flowers
- Tempera paint
- Scrap paper
- White paper
What You Do:
- Head outdoors with your child and collect a few of her favorite flowers to use for creating this fun and colorful art project. She can select big flowers, long skinny flowers, or small collections of flowers.
- Before beginning the art activity, invite your child to take a closer look at the flowers and find the petals, stigma, stamen, sepal, and stem!
- Now she can get out a piece of scrap paper along with a white sheet of paper. Invite your child to gently paint over one of the flowers with tempera paint. She can use one solid color or several of her favorites.
- Once she’s finished painting the flower she can carefully press it onto the white paper, pressing on top of it with a piece of scrap paper, and then lifting to reveal a flower print!
- Encourage your child to continue painting and pressing the flowers on her paper, creating an interesting random design or a pattern.
Her finished flowery creation can be proudly displayed in the home, or the flowers can be cut from the paper and used for decorating the front of cards or notebooks.
By Sarah Lipoff
Sarah Lipoff has a K-12 Art Education degree and enjoys working with kids of all ages.
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