Sunflowers are such a cheerful flower and what better way to celebrate the ending of summer and coming of autumn with a handprint art sunflower, a perfect craft for preschoolers
We love sunflowers and last week we had a lot of fun making a giant sunflower with our handprints. Today we decided to use our favourite flowers as inspiration again for a craft activity.
What we used:
- Pre-cut card handprints
- Paint
- PVA non toxic glue
- Glitter
- Paper Plate
- A2 White card
- Stapler and staples
What we did:
- We painted each of the pre-cut handprints with autumnal colours, sprinkled them with a little red and gold glitter and left to dry
- We kept 3 or 4 to cover in PVA glue and glitter.
- While waiting for our handprints to dry we cut out the centre of a paper plate and painted the circumference with autumn colours.
- When they had dried I helped Oodles (2.5y.o.) to staple them around the circumference of the paper plate – this would make a lovely Autumn/Fall wreath on it’s own.
- Using a plate Doodles (5) drew a circle on brown paper and cut it out and stuck it onto the large sheet of white card.
- We then stuck a strip of green paper onto the card to form out stem. I cut out a few large green leaves (D wasn’t feeling too well and didn’t want to complete the project and O is still getting to grips with a scissors) and added these to the stem.
- Taking our handprint “wreath” we stuck it onto the brown circle to create our cheery, glittery, sunflower!
Oodles has this gorgeous work of art displayed on her bedroom door for all to see.
This project could easily have been done using a child’s own handprints and cutting them out. We used these pre cut handprints as I found them in a discount store for 75 cents and thought this would be a perfect project for them!
What Autumn/Fall arts and crafts have you been doing or are planning! We would love to try out your ideas! Feel free to share a link or photo of your projects on our Facebook page!
Have fun!
Ciara x
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20 responses to “Sunflower Handprint Art 2 – Autumn/Fall Art Activities for Kids”
I loved this idea the minute I saw it on Pinterest! It’s definitely on our to-do list 🙂 #letkidsbekids
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Thanks so much Tarana, and thanks for pinning! 🙂
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[…] it only took a matter of minutes. O did this while she was waiting for the leaves of her handprint sunflower to dry, another project you may like to […]
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I love this idea. Pinned it for one of the many rainy days we are experiencing at the moment #letkidsbekids
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Thank you. Thanks for pinning! Way too many chilly/rainy days at the moment! Feeling v autumnal already! Thanks a mil for stopping by!
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Awww so nice! This craft project is nice as it keeps memories! Hand prints are always special =) #letkidsbekids
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Thank you Merlinda. There’s something very cute about little handprints xx
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I love this, its so bright, colourful and simple.
Thanks for linking #Letkidsbekids
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Really cute! I love that kids can do this together too – a group flower, or a family flower 🙂
When I first saw your image on #letkidsbekids I thought the hands were simply stamped on. It’s much more effective stamping, then cutting them out!
Great project – love it!
…Just realised, you’re the one with the gorgeous fireplace, that I follow on instagram too!!
Hi! 🙂
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Hi there and thank you! It’s a great activity for kids to do together. Thanks for stopping by! My fireplace has been a bit of a hit, maybe I should feature it in a post lol 🙂 thanks again x
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That’s really sweet – we made a massive 3 foot tall tree once with hand print leaves 🙂 #letkidsbekids
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[…] the past few weeks. We have spent a lot of time having fun with fall art activities such as our sunflower crafts and our autumn trees so I wondered if we could possibly make leaves with the […]
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I love this! Pinning it so I can try it with my kids.
Thank you for stopping by the Thoughtful Spot Weekly Blog Hop this week. We hope to see you drop by our neck of the woods next week!
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LOve handprint crafts – such a wonderful way of seeing how much they have grown (well thats also sort of sad if you know what I mean!)
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[…] and over time you can see how much your little ones have grown. Ciara shared this wonderful handprint sunflower craft and I think it would be incredibly cute to make the stalk out of longer sections of paper so that […]
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The hand print sunflower is so beautiful! I pinned it. I will also share this on the Capri + 3 FB page.
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Thanks so so much for your lovely comment, for pinning and for sharing xxxxx
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