Cupcake Liner Flowers

What You Need:

• Cupcake liners
• Glue stick
• Construction paper, green and another color of your choice
• Small decorative objects of different textures: beads, sequins, cotton balls, buttons, candies
• Pencil
• Green pipe cleaners
• Scissors

What You Do:

1. Lay out a piece of construction paper. Fold it in half if you're making a card.
2. Ask your learner to place cupcake liners onto the paper to see how many they will need. They can place the cupcake liners where their flowers will be and mark a dot at the base of them to show where the stems will be placed.
3. Encourage them to fill the inside of their cupcake liner flowers with various textures including beads, sequins, cotton balls, buttons, candies or anything you can think of. Glue the textures in place. While these dry, they can work on the stems.
4. Have them glue the green pipe cleaners in place starting from the dot they drew to the bottom of the paper. If the pipe clearners go over the bottom of the card, have your learner cut them flush to the base of the paper.
5. They can now use the green construction paper to cut out the leaves for their flower stems and glue them in place.
6. Finally, have them glue the bottom of the cupcake liners into place at the top of the stems.