With a few sheets of craft foam, a craft stick or two, a few chenille stems, a heart-shaped stencil, and some glue, kids can make flowers to decorate an Easter basket, set in a vase on a breakfast tray to surprise mom on Mother’s Day, beautify their room, or adorn a party table. Children under the age of seven may need assistance cutting the foam hearts and gluing the components together.
Gather Craft Supplies
For each flower, you’ll need
- A small piece of yellow craft foam for the center of the flower
- A small piece of green craft foam for the leaves
- A piece of craft foam in the color you want the petals
- A heart shape stencil or cookie cutter
- Craft stick
- Green chenille stems or a length of green yarn
- Hot glue gun or glue for craft foam
- A pen and a pair of scissors
Make Decorative Flowers
- Trace the heart stencil onto the sheets of craft foam. You’ll need one yellow heart, two green hearts, and at least five hearts in the color of your flower.
- Set a chenille stem or a pencil at one end of the yellow heart. Turn the pencil, rolling the heart into a twist. Add glue and squeeze the foam until the glue sets.
- Hold one of the petal hearts against the yellow twist and glue it in place.
- Continue adding petal hearts, staggering their placement to round out the flower. Set some of the petals a bit higher than the inner petals. As you reach the outer petals, set them a bit lower. Glue each in place individually.
- Glue the green hearts halfway down the flower petal hearts.
- You can either use one craft stick as your stem or glue two together to make a longer stem.
- Add a bit of glue along the length of the craft stick(s). Wind green chenille stems or green yarn along the craft sticks. Allow the glue to dry.
- Slide the stem into the base of the foam flower.
- If desired, squeeze glitter glue in the same color as the petals along the edges of the foam petals.
- Place the flower in a vase or create more flowers to display in a bouquet.
Not only can you use these directions for a craft foam flower, but you can use construction paper, scrapbook paper, cardstock, or felt. You’ll have to tweak the instructions, for materials that are lighter by adding more petals and eliminating the craft stick as support for the chenille stem. You can also try using other shape stencils to create different forms of flowers. You can also Make Easy Fabric Flowers, Ribbon Flowers, and Crocheted Flowers.
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