Give Mum a Paper Flower Pot Plant for Mummy’s Day: A Craft tutorial for dads and kids!

In Australia, Mummy’s Day is on Sunday! What a great day. Even if Hallmark thought of it, who cares? Seriously, we say get as much pampering out of it as possible. We hope you all have a teary moment brought on by the cuteness of the creations your little ones offer you. This craft is for the dads to help their kids with and give to the mums. Quick and easy to make and sooooo cute! Point your hubby in this direction…
Tutorial to Make a Paper Flower Pot Plant with Kids

You will need:

• Scissors
• Sticky Tape
• Tissue Paper in three colour
• 3 Bendy Straws
• A tiny clay pot
• Blutack
• A felt pen
• A small dinner plate to trace around
• A few pins

Step One

• Place the small plate on the tissue paper and trace around it three times. A child of about four and up will be able to do this step but may need a little help holding the plate in place.

Step Two


• Pin together three sheets of different coloured tissue paper together (an adult should do this step)
• Cut out the tissue paper circles (a child over five or six will manage this). If you have a younger child keep them involved by expaining what you are doing and talking about it to keep them interested.

Step 3


• Repeat the above steps until you have cut out nine circles, three of each colour.

Step 4


• Take three circles of tissue paper and place them on top of each other. Grab them in the middle and twist the centre to hold them together.

Step 5


• Take a piece of sticky tape and a bendy straw. Tape the scrunched up bit of the flowers onto the top of the straw. Wrap the tape around a few times to hold it in place.
• Repeat this until you have three paper flowers on their stalks (straws).

Step 6

• Now that you have finished the three flowers, tape their stalks (straws together) near to the bottom so that you have a bunch of flowers.
• Now bend the straws so that the flowers face outwards.

Step 7


• Take a of tissue paper about thirty cms long and fold it over. Cut slits in it and make it into the fringe.
• Sticky tape the fold of the fringe around the top of the clay pot. I suppose you could glue this part but I think you would have to use a hot glue gun (don’t let kids any where near it – they leave the nastiest burns, trust me!)

Step 8


• Take a biggish lump of blutack and stick in on the middle inside of the clay pot
• Stick the flowers into it to hold them upright.
• Fill the pot with tissue paper
• I found some fake grass and filled the pot with that

And There you have it. A simple paper flower pot ready to make mummy cry!

Hope you have a lot of fun,

Emma (with help from my gorgeous niece, Milly, aged 7 and a half – don’t forget the half!)

xxx

PS Of course if you just want to make this with your child for no particular reason at all that is quite alright with us!

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