Art and craft are very important for children and playing while learning about the world’s most valuable resource can be a great deal of fun!  Preschoolers and early elementary kids love to get messy and do crafts, and they are a great way to fine tune those fine motor skills and let your kid’s creativity shine while learning something along the way.

These traditional Fower crafts for your grandkids teach them about the rich and colourful world of fragrance and flowers.  Play games, create and have fun!
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Flower experiment for kids

This experiment is great for teaching children about plants and flowers and how they thrive.  It is also just plain fun!  Read on to see how you can turn white flowers into rainbow flowers!
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You’ll Need:

• White flowers 
• Food colouring
• Cups or glasses
• Scissors

​Here's how:​

1. Begin with six white flowers.  We used daisies this time, but other flowers will also work.
2. Trim the flowers so that they will fit nicely into whatever cups or glasses you are using. Giving the flowers a fresh cut also helps them to absorb the coloured water more quickly.
3. Fill your cups with the desired amount of water, and then have kids add several drops of food colouring and a flower to each cup. Then, place the flowers in a sunny window.
4. It is now time to observe! In just a few hours you will start to notice a slight change! After a handful of days, you may not be able to believe your eyes!
5. As the flowers drink in the coloured water, they transform into a beautiful rainbow right before your eyes!

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Notes: What do the children learn by doing this experiment?
This experiment takes more time with certain flowers.
The first time we tried this we used white roses, and those changed colour overnight. I was surprised to discover that the daisies took much longer.
While the daisies started to change after a few days they were not fully saturated until 14 days later.

Paper flower party hats

Who can resist paper flowers? We love making party hats because when you take a group photograph, the theme of the party is unmistakable – and in this case your guests would look like a bouquet!

You’ll Need:

• Green cardstock
• Petal coloured cardstock
• Scissors
• Pencil
• Hot glue gun
• Elastic cord
• Washi tape (optional).

Here's how:

1. Trace a bowl or other circle onto the green card stock. The bowl pictured has a diameter of 5″/13cm.
2. Cut out the circle and cut a slit to the approximate centre of the circle.
3. Use the hot glue gun to form the circle into a cone – the paper should overlap about 2 1/2″/6cms.
4. Cut a stem and leaf out of the green card stock. The leaf should have a small tab at the end for attaching it to the stem later; you can also crease the leaf lengthwise.
5. Fold a 1/2″/1cm flap at the bottom of the stem and hot glue it next to the tip of the cone – have the stem flap facing the seam of the cone so that your hat will have a nicer front side. Hot glue the leaf tab onto the back of the stem.
6. Cut petals out of card stock. This flower used eight petals 7 1/2″/19.5cms long with a 1 1/4″/3.2cm base, but the yellow and pink flowers pictured used six petals 8″/20cm long with a 2 1/4″/5.2cm base.
7. Hot glue two petals to the underside of the cone, directly across from one another.
8. From there, fill in the two gaps with petals, trying your best to keep them evenly spaced/overlapped depending on their size.
9. Gently roll the petals to give them a subtle upward curve.
10. Cut a piece of elastic cord and hot glue it to the underside of the cone, keeping in mind the front and back of the flower. Use washi tape over the hot glue if desired. (The cord used was about 18″/45cm long but this may be too long for children.)
11. Repeat for as many hats as required!

Paper flower craft

You’ll Need:

• Circle paper punch – we recommend extra-large if this craft will be done by a younger child
• Yellow paper
• Paper in a variety of colours (we used regular print paper)
• Paper cutter or scissors
• Stick glue
• Green paper drinking straws
• Clear tape (or patterned for some fun)

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Here's how:

1. Punch a few circles out of yellow paper. You will need one circle for 1 flower. We recommend you use larger punch if you are working with small children as it will be easier for them to handle.
2. Cut strips of paper. There is some trial and error with the next step. Depending on your circle size, different lengths (and widths) of paper strips will work. We recommend you first make one strip of paper and make a loop (as seen in the next step) and see if it works with your circle size. Once you are happy with the size of the loop in relation to your yellow circle, start cutting strips of paper in that size.
3. Glue the ends of paper strips together, making a paper loop. You will need quite a few (the number depends on the size of the flower you are making).
4. Glue the loops on one side of the paper circle. We started by sticking 4 at a 90° angle, then another 4 in between and another 8 in between those.
5. Once you are happy with how full your paper flower craft is looking, apply some glue onto the green paper straw and press it in the middle of the flower. Secure with clear tape.
6. Your paper flower craft is complete!