Stamped Flower Craft with Corks and Buttons
2014-03-21
The spring is here!
Good-bye, winter! Who’s ready for some cheery spring craft ideas? I sure am, and I’m so excited to share this one with you! The hooligans are off for spring break this week, and I’ve been playing around with some flower craft ideas that I’ve had in my head for a while now. I thought it would be fun to stamp some spring flowers with wine corks and paint! I intended to simplytest my idea, but it was so fun, and the flowers looked so sweet, I couldn’t stop stamping! Before I knew it, I was elbow deep in colourful, stamped paper flowers! Hmmm, what to do with all of them?
Actually, I came up with several flower crafts for the hooligans to try when they return. I couldn’t wait to share this one with you though! So, you get to see it today!
What you’ll need for your stamped flower craft:
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- white card stock
- acrylic craft paint
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10 wine corks
- rubber bands
- styrofoam produce tray ( or something flat to pour your paint into)
- scissors
- buttons
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green drinking straws
(or pipe cleaners
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glue or glue gun
Before you all ask me just how much wine we drink around here, let me explain. We kind of collect wine corks. We hang on to ours, and our friends give us theirs. Why? Because wine corks are great for fine motor activities, and we’ve made some excellent homemade stamps with them!
Turning your corks into flower stamps:
For today’s craft, I made 2 flower stamps: a small pansy stamp (3 corks),
and a larger flower stamp (7 corks).
To make your stamps, simply assemble them on a flat surface, and secure with a rubber band.
If you don’t have enough corks, fear not! I made a few flowers by dipping and stamping a single cork!
Let’s get stamping!
Drizzle 3 colours of paint on to your styrofoam tray.
Now, press a cork stamp into the paint. You may have to move it around slightly to get good coverage. Go easy though, you don’t want your colours to all blur together.
Press your stamp down firmly on your white card stock. Lift and…. aren’t they PRETTY?
Dip back into your paint and stamp again, and again! You may find it rather addictive. You’ll understand how I got carried away.
Let your paint dry, and then cut out your flowers.
Glue a button to the centre of each flower. I used my glue gun. Kids can use a low temp glue gun
Glue a straw to the back of each flower, and pop them into a little vase or jar.
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