For St. Patrick's day, we made a bouquet of shamrocks/clovers.
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This is an easy to make project. The tutorial can be used to create spring flowers too!
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Green felt/Green Construction Paper (I used 9" X 12" felt sheet).
Felt Glue
Shamrock Shape Cookie cutter or Heart shape cookie cutter
Scissors
Green pipe cleaner
Buttons
Clothespin
Glitter, Decorative beads
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This is an easy to make project. The tutorial can be used to create spring flowers too!
Materials Used:
Green felt/Green Construction Paper (I used 9" X 12" felt sheet).
Felt Glue
Shamrock Shape Cookie cutter or Heart shape cookie cutter
Scissors
Green pipe cleaner
Buttons
Clothespin
Glitter, Decorative beads
Steps Overview:
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- Using the cookie cutter as reference, Cut the felt sheet into a square/rectangle shape. With my cookie cutter size, I was able to make four clovers from the 9" X 12" sheet.
- Fold the rectangle/square into half and fold it again. With the cookie cutter as template draw a petal shape as shown in picture 2
- Cut along the outline
- Unfold the square/rectangle felt. Shamrock shape ready!
- To create the clover stem, run the pipe cleaner through the button hole starting at the bottom of the button and back down through the other hole.
- Twist the pipe cleaner to secure the button firmly
- Cut a slit to center between two leaves of shamrock as shown in picture 7
- Apply glue to a leave next to the slit as shown in picture 10
- Bring the glue leave together around the stem, overlapping the leaves. Fasten a clothespin to hold the leaves together until they dry - picture 11
- When the leaves are dry, you can decorate the shamrock as you wish
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ReplyDeleteThose are so cute! Thanks for sharing your instructions!
ReplyDeleteAnd.. thanks for linking this up with For the Kids Fridays at Sun Scholars. I can't wait to see what you have to share this week! I'll be posting the next party later tonight. Hope to have you stop by!
:)rachel @ SunScholars.blogspot.com