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Sunflower Craft

 Sunflowers are such pretty flowers!  They are so big, bright, and sure to bring a smile.  This sunflower craft is perfect for this time of year.  If you’ve grown a few sunflower seeds in your yard, they are super tall and probably starting to topple over by now.  Kids will love to stamp this sunflower and create their own!

Sunflower Craft for Kids

We started with a paper tube, yellow paint, and a paintbrush.  Snip the ends of the paper tube just an inch in towards the center.  Older children could do this part of the craft, or younger kids (with assistance) could work on some scissor skills.  Cutting through the cardboard of the paper tube is great resistance for scissor control.

Once the cardboard tube is snipped, we painted the outside flaps a bright yellow color.  Baby Girl loves all thins painting.  This was right up her ally!

Stamp the wet paint onto white paper.

We made a whole crop of sunflowers.

 

Once the yellow paint is dry, add a big glop of glue to the center of each sunflower.  Sprinkle a little handful of sunflower seeds onto the flowers.
We added stems and petals with a green marker to finish our sunflowers.
Be sure to save your paper tubes for crafts and activities.  You may want to make a few other stamping crafts like paper roll apple stamps or paper roll pumpkin stamps.

About Colleen SugarAunts

Colleen Beck, OTR/L is an occupational therapist with 20 years experience, graduating from the University of Pittsburgh in 2000. Colleen owns and authors www.theottoolbox.com, where she inspires therapists, teachers, and parents with easy and fun tools to help children thrive. Colleen is passionate about play and strives to empower those serving kids of all levels and needs.

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