DLTK's Crafts for Kids
Stuffed Corn Flower Finger paint Craft

Even the youngest crafters can make this project.  It's great for the children in the baby room or toddler room in a daycare to make and hang from the ceiling.

The corn flower or corn poppy is Poland's national flower.

Materials:

• paper,
• scissors,
• stapler
• finger paint  (or tempra paint and brush) in red (and green if you have it).
• Cotton balls or shredded newspaper
• IF HANGING:  short piece of string, wool or ribbon

Instructions:

• print two copies of the template (or just draw two poppies freehand but make them the same size).  Do not cut out yet.
• Let the children paint the templates with finger paints or a brush and tempra paint
• Allow to dry.
• Cut out the poppies (adults will need to help with this).
• Staple all the way around the edge of the poppies, leaving an opening at the top.
• Stuff the poppy with shredded paper (kids age 3+ love to help with this step).
• Finish stapling the poppy closed
• staple a short piece of string to the top to hang from the ceiling

Templates:

• Close the template window after printing to return to this screen.
• Set page margins to zero if you have trouble fitting the template on one page (FILE, PAGE SETUP or FILE, PRINTER SETUP in most browsers).

Template     (B&W)

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