Engage the whole family and promote family time with the Children’s Museum’s feature activity.
Spoil Mom with a gift that won’t spoil! These pretty Flower Bouquets make precious keepsakes for moms or grandmas because they are made with loving hands. The various colours and shapes of dried flower petals make unique, scented embellishments in this quick and easy Mother’s Day gift idea.
Supplies
- Dried flower petals
- Paper towel roll
- Pipe cleaners
- Ribbon/cloth
- Scissors/pencil
- Paintbrush
- Paint
Instructions
- Paint your paper towel roll whatever colour you’d like and allow it to dry.
- Using scissors or a pencil, carefully pierce holes in the top quarter of your paper towel roll.
- Thread pipe cleaners through holes and then out the top of your paper towel roll. Bend the pipe cleaners into the positions you want.
- Carefully pierce the dried flower petals through the pipe cleaner and slide them to their desired positions.
- Tie a patterned ribbon or cloth onto your paper towel roll to make a bow and you have your own real flower bouquet that won’t wilt!
Download Previous Feature Activity Sheets
- Flower Bouquets (PDF)
- Ocean-In-A-Bag (PDF)
- Coffee Filter Jellyfish (PDF)
- Potted Plants (PDF)
- Totem Poles (PDF)
- Pet Spider (PDF)
- Perfecto Paper Pizza (PDF)
- Floating Foam Ducky (PDF)
- Caterpillar Critters (PDF)
- Robot Characters (PDF)
- Rainbow Ice Creations (PDF)
- Snowman On A Stick (PDF)
- Magic Puff Paint (PDF)
- Paper Bag Pumpkins (PDF)
- Foam Pencil Toppers (PDF)