Even if it’s not warm where you live, you can still teach your children about growing flowers and fruits! I picked these cute kits up at Target, and my husband planted them with our daughters this past weekend. I would love to have a garden outside, but we have critter problems. Yep you guessed it…iguanas. Ick! They eat everything, even my hibiscus tree. (Oh the perils of living in a subtropical climate.)
So we do small container gardens that seem to do well. I’m curious to see how the strawberries grow, but my pineapple is doing ok!
Paint with Flowers!
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| I love how Emy’s painting turned out! |
Why not paint with flowers? We did this at my toddlers art class today…so fun! The teacher just picked up a bouquet of flowers from the supermarket and laid out several bowls of paint.
We talked about the size of each flower, and they learned how to press the flower imprint onto the paper. I can’t wait to show this to my 5 year old!
Coffee Filter Flowers
This is another cute project courtesy of Miss Jo at Nova Southeastern University. She had giant coffee filters of all sizes, and gave each child a different medium of paint for each layer. To do this at home use a coffee filter for the bottom layer and give kids 3 types of green washable paint. I used kelly green, and mixed yellow in for one color, and brown in for a darker green.
For the next layer we used watered down paint and sponges and watched how the paint expanded onto the filter. For this layer at home I would use a jumbo cupcake liner.
Then for the 3rd layer use a regular sized cupcake liner and try bingo dabbers.
And for the center of the flower use a mini cupcake liner and let your kids shred paper, or punch using a hole puncher and then glue a collage inside. You can always hang these on the wall or glass doors with a brown stem and leaves for super cute Spring or Easter decorations!
You can pin this for later. Happy Spring!
We usually plant things in the spring too. I’ve tried one of those strawberry towers before…but it didn’t work. Usually between the dogs and the heat…I lose my plants! But I bet they’d love painting with them!
Me too Sarah…plus I have a black thumb, which is why my husband did this!
And even up north we have raccoons and rabbits and groundhogs that eat our gardens! But definitely no iguanas. 🙂
I take a bunny or racoon any day!
I love the idea of painting with flowers. My kids will love it too. In a month or two we’ll have lots of flowers to choose from 🙂
Very cool idea to paint with flowers! I always have such a hard time throwing my flowers away, even when they’re rotting in their vase. So now I have a second use for them before they wilt!
I love the idea of painting with alternate brushes. My preschooler isn’t into finger painting, so it is fun to find new ways to paint!
Renee @ CreativeMamaMessyHouse
Cute ideas…but I’m going to keep the paint away from my boys for at least another year! lol
No Aubrey! I started letting them finger paint at 18 months. ANd if you don’t want the mess, try doing bathtub paint. It’s a great sensory exercise!
What a cute idea! My preschooler doesn’t like getting her fingers dirty (what?!) so flowers are a great idea.
I’ll bet the children had a wonderful time doing this. Love this idea!
So much fun! I nanny a two-year-old girl and she loves flowers and getting messy! I will need to give these ideas a try.
This looks like a great project, Kristen! My little guy just turned 16 months and I can’t wait to get him painting and coloring.
LOVE this idea!!!! You’re such a creative mommy!
What a great idea to paint with flowers, I’m definitely going to try this with my toddler!
Oh, The Girl would LOVE to paint with flowers… we’ll have to try that some weekend soon!
How fun to paint with flowers, it’s a great idea. Thanks for linking up to Sweet and Savoury Sunday, stop by and link up again. Happy Easter, have a great weekend!
This is SO cute and fun. My daughter would LOVE this!! Pinning and stumbling for you! Thanks for linking up at Wordy Wednesday!
Wow, what an explosion of colour! Looks like a lot of fun.
Where the heck do you find coffee filters that big?? Love these ideas! It’s so fun to paint with different objects.