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Simple Paper plate Sunflower Craft for Kids

July 12, 2021
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by Beth Gorden

Whether you are celebrating the arrival of spring or the tall magestic sunlowers at the end of warm summer days, this paper plate sunflower craft  is sure to be a hit! This sunflower crafts are cute and simple-to-make with toddler, preschool, kindergarten, and first grade students. So gather a couple simple materials and make your own pretty flower crafts together.

Whether you are celebrating the arrival of spring or the tall magestic sunlowers at the end of warm summer days, this paper plate sunflower craft  is sure to be a hit! This sunflower crafts are cute and simple-to-make with toddler, preschool, kindergarten, and first grade students. So gather a couple simple materials and make your own pretty flower crafts together.

Paper plate sunflower craft

With the arrival of spring we think of flowers blooming and filling our world with beautiful, vibrant color and sweet smells. Flowers continue to bloom through summer and into fall! On our walks, my children love to look at all of the things growing in nature and the flowers that are blooming. This super cute Sunflower Craft with Paper Plates is a fun craft to explore beautiful, cheery yellow flowers with children. This sunflower craft is perfect for toddlers, preschoolers, kindergartners, and grade 1 student. Whether you do this along with other flower crafts, as a summer craft for kids, or a s is for sunflower theme durin this summer – this is sure to be a hit with parents, teachers, daycare providers, and homeschooler alike!

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Sunflower Crafts

After our walk today, we created a Simple Sunflower Craft. This flower craft is easy for young children to make and a fun Springtime activity.

Supplies:

  • Small paper plate
  • Yellow paint
  • Large craft stick
  • Green paint
  • Paint Brush
  • Green construction paper
  • Scissors
  • Sunflower seeds
  • Glue
using yellow tempera paint, paint the paper plate

Flower Crafts

First, paint the small paper plate with the yellow paint and paint the large craft stick with the green paint. When the paint is dry, glue the craft stick onto the paper plate.

attach construction paper leaves

Sunflower craft with paper plates

Then, cut two to three leaves out of the green construction paper. If you are working with young children, you may want to draw the leaves on the paper and have them cut them out. Next, glue the leaves onto the craft stick.

glue sunflower seeds on the yellow plate to make a sunflower craft

Sunflower Craft

Finally, glue sunflower seeds onto the center of the paper plate to make a sunflower seed craft.

This easy sunflower craft is perfect to make with toddler, preschool, pre k, kindergarten, and first grade students. I love that his simple flower craft for 3 and 4 year olds uses common craft supplies you most likely have laying around your house.

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Sunflower seed craft

Have extras sun flower seeds? Try this free printable Sunflower Seed Counting Activity too!

Extend The Learning:

While creating this flower craft, your child will work on developing their fine motor skills by painting and cutting, but you can also incorporate these learning activities too:

  • Read informational books about plants and flowers. Your children can learn all about what a plant needs to grow and the parts of a flower.
  • Plant sunflower seeds and watch the plant grow. We plant the seeds in cups first and then transfer them to the ground when it warms up outside. Have your children record their observations in a plant journal.

Whether you are celebrating the arrival of spring or the end of warm summer days, this super cute sunflower craft with paper plates is such a fun, simple craft to make with toddlers, preschoolers, kindergartners, and grade 1 students.   One of my favorite things about summer are all the pretty flowers growing everywhere. And no flower stands out like the tall, cheery sunflower! Learn about flower life cycles in this life cycle of a sunflower worksheet pack with over 65 pages! Not only are there sunflower life cycle worksheet choices, but sunflower worksheets to practice math, and liteary skills such as alphabet matching, tracing letters, counting, subtracting, singular / plural, graphing, telling time, and so much more with preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, and first grade students. Simply download pdf file with flower worksheets and you are ready to play and learn with these life cycle worksheets. sunflower activity

Sunflower Activities for Kids

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Flower Crafts

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Learn how to make these beautiful chromatography flowers using coffee filters and markers. This is both a fun art project AND a simple science experiments for kids that explores colors while making pretty craft flowers for spring and summer.  This STEAM project is the perfect spring activity for toddler, preschoolers, pre k, kindergarteners, first grade, 2nd grade, and 3rd graders.  capillary action experiment  grow your own crystal flower experiment There are certain science projects that make you go WOW! This color changing flower activity is one of those! Children learn about capillary action for kids with this amazing, colorful flower experiment. Try this colour changing flower experiment with toddler, preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, first grade, 2nd grade, 3rd grade and 4th garders too. Simply print pdf file with food coloring flower experiment worksheet and you are ready to play and learn with flower science!

Flower Science Experiments

  flower scavenger hunt  Planting Carrots CVC Activity for Kindergarten Flower Beginning Sounds Activity One of my favorite things about summer are all the pretty flowers growing everywhere. And no flower stands out like the tall, cheery sunflower! Learn about flower life cycles in this life cycle of a sunflower worksheet pack with over 65 pages! Not only are there sunflower life cycle worksheet choices, but sunflower worksheets to practice math, and liteary skills such as alphabet matching, tracing letters, counting, subtracting, singular / plural, graphing, telling time, and so much more with preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, and first grade students. Simply download pdf file with flower worksheets and you are ready to play and learn with these life cycle worksheets.

Flower Printables

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Beth Gorden

Beth Gorden is the creative multi-tasking creator of 123 Homeschool 4 Me. As a busy homeschooling mother of six, she strives to create hands-on learning activities and worksheets that kids will love to make learning FUN! She has created over 1 million pages of printables to help teach kids ABCs, science, English grammar, history, math, and so much more! Beth is also the creator of 2 additional sites with even more educational activities and FREE printables - www.kindergartenworksheetsandgames.com and www.preschoolplayandlearn.com

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