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 Spring
art projects and crafts – Flower press
To get beautiful dried leaves and flowers, you do not need to go
out and buy an expensive flower press. Many people just use books
as flower presses, even. We, on the other and, love spring art projects
and crafts, so we are going to make our own flower press. All you
need is cardboard and rubber bands. Cut the cardboard into multiple
pieces of the same size – how big you cut your cardboard is
dependent on how big of flowers and leaves you will be pressing.
Stack all of your cardboard together. Decorate the top piece and
even the bottom piece with paints or markers or whatever. Go out
and find some fun leaves and flowers. Put them in between the cardboard.
Take the rubber bands and rubber-band the cardboard pieces together
tightly. How long it takes for the plants to try is dependent on
time and also weather – they will dry out more quickly in
dry climates. Wait a few days and then check on them.
The best part about using a flower press as one of your spring
art projects and crafts is that you end up with dried plants that
you can turn into another art project. You can use these dried plants
to make bookmarks (just take two pieces of packing tape and stick
them to either side), stationary, and many other beautiful things.
Spring art projects and crafts – Mod Podge and plant
pictures
If you have never used Mod Podge before, you have been missing
out. Mod Podge is a wonderful substance that acts as a glue and
also a sealant. You can use Mod Podge in a variety of spring art
projects and crafts. For one, you can have your students or children
go out on a scenic hike and gather things that they find interesting
– or you can even send them off on a scavenger hunt in search
of sticks, flowers, dirt, feathers, or whatever. Then they take
all that they have found and arrange it on a piece of heavy-duty
paper and paint Mod Podge over and beneath everything. Mod Podge
can even keep rocks on a piece of paper and preserve flowers.
If you do not want to work with plants and objects from the outdoors,
you can have your students or children cut out pictures of flowers
and trees, etc., from magazines and then Mod Podge them to a piece
of paper in a fun design. You just need to Mod Podge the piece of
paper, stick down your cut-outs, and then Mod Podge over them. For
an extra fun and memorable spring art project, you can find a wooden
box or a picture frame or even a chair and Mod Podge your cut-outs
all over it.
Spring art projects and crafts -- Coffee filter butterflies
For this spring craft, you will need a pipe cleaner, a paper coffee
filter, watercolor paints and a paint brush, and water. Let your
students or children paint the coffee filter with whatever colors
they want to. Let the coffee filter dry. Accordion pleat the coffee
filter in about ½ inch pleats. Wrap the pipe cleaner around
the middle of the pleated coffee filter to make the body of the
butterfly – your two ends will be the antennae. Fan out the
coffee filter to make the butterfly’s wings. You can stop
with just one butterfly, or you can make a butterfly mobile by tying
your butterflies to yarn or fishing line and hanging them from a
hanger.
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