Spring Flower Craft: Frugal Fun!

Materials:
1-2 Magazines
Cardstock Paper (1 per child)
Glue Stick and Liquid Glue
Scissors
Pop bottle caps or buttons

Look through magazines and rip out colorful pages, set aside any pages with green on them (for the stem and leaves). Gather colorful pages so you can cut the flower shapes, we panted to make poppies so made mishapen wavy circles. We cut about 7-10 pages at once, and first we cut them into squares of different sizes (8-9 different sizes depending on how much depth you want your flower to have). We cut the"circles" out and laid them in a row from biggest to smallest. Then we cut green strips and circles/tear drops for the leaves.

Glue the steams on the paper, and then start with the largest "circle".

Glue progressively smaller circles on top of the first one. Some of us tried to stick to a color theme and others did not. The finished product looked really pretty either way. 

Once you have added all the circles and you are happy with how the flower looks, use the liquid glue to attach either a button or a small pop bottle cap for the center of the flower. 

If you dont have old magazines or buttons/caps kicking around the house, you can buy magazines at Value Village for less than $1 each and buttons for around 1-5 cents each. 

 

The only real cost involved in the craft was the cardstock paper which is $5 for 50 sheets. Frugal fun at its finest!