You will need:
- Egg boxes
- Paints and brushes
- Scissors
- Lolly pop sticks
- Washi-tape or craft tape
- Fabric craft tape
- Luggage labels
- Glue
- Buttons
- Small plant pots
Instructions to make egg box mother’s day flowers:
Step 1
Cut your egg box so that you have the individual pieces.
Step 2
Make three cuts down to the base to start creating the petals, then each third into 2 to make a total of 6 petals. Splay the petals out a little and then round off the petals. You could experiment with different petal shapes to make differenet types of flowers.
Step 3
Paint your flower with vibrant paints and let them dry.
Step 4
Paint your lolly stick.
Step 5
Cut leaves from card or if you have green egg boxes – from the top flat half of the egg box. Stick your leaves to the top of the lolly sticks and then your flower on top of those.
Step 6
Finally cut a piece of washi-tape or ribbon and stick it around the lolly stick – cutting a sideways ‘V’ shape in to the end.
Top Tips:
To personalise your flowers even further, add a luggage label tag with a hand written message on and stick this to the back of your lolly stick. You could also try adding glitter to the wet paint or add a button to the centre of the flower.
Top Tips:
To personalise your flowers even further, add a luggage label tag with a hand written message on and stick this to the back of your lolly stick. You could also try adding glitter to the wet paint or add a button to the centre of the flower.
You could create a small bunch of flowers as an extra special gift. These flowers have been stuck into a tiny craft flower pot:
