It is not May yet, but Mother’s day should take at least a month’s
worth of planning. Mother’s Day is a special day (as it should be) and
you need to start thinking and looking for things to do for mom.
Mother’s day flowers are always a good go-to gift, but what if you can
take that to the next level?
If you are a dad looking to surprise her with your children’s artwork-
here are some ideas for you:
-Create paper/cloth flowers with real flower details
Consider going to your local flower shop, to buy a small assortment of
flowers (make sure to pick colorful ones). With that in hand, suggest
to your children a fun craft day. Encourage them to decorate their
creations with bits and pieces of real flowers. For instance, if they
are creating flowers out of paper, suggest adding some color with real
flower petals.
Another good idea is to make them create paper containers for those flowers.
-Create a flower bouquet holder
Materials you’ll need:
1. Construction paper (square big enough to trace your hand)
2. Scotch tape
3. Scissors
4. Pencil
5. Green long pipe cleaners
Instructions:
Trace your hand on the square of paper. Cut your handprint out-(you
might have to cut your child’s out, if they are making these flowers)
-now you are going to make the petals of the flower. To do this, curl
each finger toward you. Put the end of the finger on the pencil and
roll under all the way to the end. Do all four fingers and the thumb.
Take the hand part and make into a cone with the fingers curling to
the outside. Tape at the bottom of the cone to hold it together. You
have a flower. Time to make the stem. Take the top of the long pipe
cleaner and loop around, then twist. This will make a leaf. Take the
bottom of the flower and attach to the pipe cleaner stem with tape.
Flatten the bottom of the flower and twist tape around flower and
stem. Make several of these flowers with different colors of paper and
you have a paper flower bouquet. To hold them together, wrap a green
pipe cleaner around the bunch. They look nice in a vase. (via
WonderHowTo)
New Port Richey Florist has many years of experience. They carefully
arrange and select Mother’s Day flowers to go with your themes and
ideas at your request; they also take suggestions and give great
advice! You can contact them through Facebook or Twitter, or you could
go by the New Port Richey Florist store in New Port Richey, Fl at this
address: 6835 SR 54. You can also reach them by phone:
Local: (727) 849 – 2222 or National: (800) 749- 5323