Create a Paper Flower Bouquet

What You Need:

• White watercolor paper, 11" x 17"
• Flesh-colored paper for the arm and hand
• Various shades of green construction paper for stems and leaves
• Brightly colored construction papers for flowers
• Pencil
• Scissors
• Glue stick

What You Do:

1. Help your child trace their arm and hand on the flesh-colored paper.
2. Have them cut out the traced paper arm. Set it aside.
3. Place the white watercolor paper in a portrait-style (vertical) position.
4. Lay the paper hand across the bottom of the white paper. The fingers should almost touch the end of the paper. Cut down the arm part of the colored paper, so that it aligns flush with the white paper.
5. Help glue just the arm part of the cut-out to the white paper. Keep the paper hand and fingers free from glue at this point.
6. Together, cut and tear the green paper into long, thick, and thin stems. Next, cut and tear the green paper into various leaf shapes, including big, small, round fat, long, and thin.
7. Arrange the stems so that they're in between the "fingers" of the hand. Some of them should overlap the thumb, but all should go under the fingers.
8. Help your child glue down the thumb and the stems from the bottom up. Do NOT glue the tops of the stems just yet.
9. Make the fingers appear to be "holding" the flowers by folding the fingers under and gluing them. (You can also just cut the fingers off to give the effect of bent fingers.)
10. Glue the fingers down.
11. Have your child place the leaves around the stems and glue them down
12. Together, tear, rip, and cut out colored paper into the shapes of petals.
13. Glue down the petals. Overlapping stems and petals look great on this portrait!

This beautiful collage bouquet is ready for your child to present to someone they love.