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Home / Uncategorized / Kid-Made Cupcake Liner Flowers

Kid-Made Cupcake Liner Flowers

Shared by Mary Catherine 7 Comments

My preschoolers love to create arts and crafts! Here’s some fun we recently had making cupcake liner flowers.

Cupcake liner flowers - I love how the kids used simple materials to make their own versions

We have a variety of materials in our classroom art center, and they are free to create for a large portion of our day. In addition to those materials, I like to put out little invitations to create at the art center. It’s rarely something complicated – usually just a few items placed on the table for the children to discover. It’s always interesting to see what the children make!

Cupcake liner flowers - colorful collaborative flower art made by kids

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What we used
Cupcake liners
Glue
Colorful buttons
Pompoms
Construction paper

child-made cupcake liner flowers - a simple, open-ended flower craft for kids

What the kids did
Usually, the children do their own things with the items I leave out on the art table. Sometimes a few will create a collaborative piece of art, too. This time, all of the kids chatted and decided to make cupcake liner flowers. It was fun listening to them chat about what the cupcake liners looked like and what they should make with them.

Some children grouped the liners into one large flower, while others made each individual liner into a flower. A few others decided to stack the liners together to make one big bloom. The buttons and pompoms were placed in the center. One of my girls created a number garden, writing the numbers inside each of her flowers! Even though they came up with the same goal, cupcake liner flowers, each of them was different!

Child-made cupcake liner flowers - a fun arts and crafts activity for spring

Since we’re a fan of collaborative canvas art, we also put together a team piece. Some children painted the canvas with purple watercolors. Once the canvas was dried, a few others came and added the flowers. I found it interesting that they flattened the liners for our canvas piece, even though they didn’t like them flattened when creating their individual art. Buttons and such were added before the canvas was declared done!

Towards the end of the day, one of the kiddos pointed out that I’d never made any flowers. Oftentimes, I sit with the children and create alongside them. Apparently they noticed I didn’t do that, and they called me on it! 🙂 So I made a few cupcake liner flowers of my own. While I like mine, I still find the students’ creativity more inspiring!

Making cupcake liner flowers with kids

What would your children make with cupcake liners, buttons, and pompoms?

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  • More flower-themed fun from the #PLAYfulpreschool crew:
  • Done-for-You Preschool Resources

More flower-themed fun from the #PLAYfulpreschool crew:

Alphabet Activities: Flower Vases by Growing Book by Book
Spring and summer are full of opportunities for preschoolers to pick flowers from the yard. Bring a bouquet inside and have fun arranging them while learning about the alphabet in this fun and playful activity.
Lavender Scented Sensory Paint and Pre-Writing Practice for Preschool! by The Preschool Toolbox Blog
There are few things that excite our senses like the fragrance of flowers! Come try a lavender scented sensory paint to enhance pre-writing skills! Free lavender pre-writing printable for use at home (or in the classroom)!
Flower Hunt by Color by Mom Inspired Life
Get outside with your preschooler and explore nature while hunting for flowers by color! Use the included printable to record your findings and then practice various math concepts with your data.
A Honey Bee Craft and Science Activity for Kids from The Educators’ Spin On It
Flowers are not just beautiful, they have a purpose too! Many flowers turn into the food we eat. Honey bees are to thank for this! Grab your markers and celebrate the pollinators with this bee craft and science activity for kids.
 Kid-Made Cupcake Liner Flowers
Children love to create art using a variety of materials. Grab some colorful cupcake liners, buttons, and pompoms and watch their creativity bloom!  – Fun-A-Day
Chalk Art: Flower Power Letter Matching from Tiny Tots Adventures
Take learning outdoors. Fill the driveway with letter flowers and provide your child with plenty of opportunities to practice writing, matching, and tracing the alphabet.
Number Flowers by Still Playing School
There is so much playful math involved with our Flower Number Garden! Our kids especially loved the “magical” way we made them “grow!”
Colors and Numbers Flower Sensory Play for Preschoolers by Life Over C’s
Learn colors, count, and practice fine motor skills with flower sensory play for preschoolers!
Ending Word Sound Flowers by Capri + 3
Make an easy word family game with paper flowers to practice reading simple CVC or consonant- vowel – consonant words.

 

Finger Print Flowers by Powerful Mothering
Ask your child to make a beautiful flower garden with their fingers, sit back, and watch the magic.

Letter Recognition Flowers by Rainy Day Mum
Work with preschoolers on letter recognition with this reusable flowers activity that is simple to make and can be used again and again.

Done-for-You Preschool Resources

Planning meaningful lessons for students week after week, all while balancing other teaching responsibilities and a personal life, can be a daunting task. That’s where Preschool Teacher 101 comes in to save you time!

Preschool Teacher 101 is excited to share with you some amazing lesson plans, activity packs, and much more! We offer a wide variety of themes that are frequently used in preschool classrooms, as well as some less common (but super interesting) themes. Click on the images below to learn more about some of our products related to flowers!

10 Little Flowers Song Pack & Book Set preschool resource cover.
10 Little Flowers Song Pack & Book Set
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Flower Lesson Plans
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Flower Math Differentiated Number Sense Activities

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Cupcake Liner Flowers - I love how kids turn basic materials into pretty works of art!

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  1. Amanda Boyarshinov says

    May 20, 2015 at 6:18 am

    I like how each child’s exploration turned out different, yet all are so pretty. What a creative group of kids you have!

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  2. Cerys says

    May 20, 2015 at 9:30 am

    How cute – I am going to raid the baking cupboard and button box and leave an invitation to create for my kids after school today. Thanks for the inspiration.

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  3. Danielle says

    May 20, 2015 at 3:30 pm

    They turned out so pretty! I love the creativity that is displayed!

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  4. Theresa says

    May 20, 2015 at 6:23 pm

    I love the wide variety of flowers created using the same materials. It is really interesting that some are single cups, others layered and some pressed flat. The different effects are really pretty and unique.

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  5. Jodie @ Growing Book by Book says

    May 22, 2015 at 10:39 pm

    I remember doing this with my older son. Time to do it with my newest preschooler too!

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  6. the preschool toolbox says

    May 25, 2015 at 10:50 am

    These are adorable flowers! I have never thought to use pompom centers! The kids must have had FUN creating. 🙂

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  7. Natasha says

    May 26, 2015 at 7:27 am

    So pretty. I love how each one had their own idea.

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