Paper Plate Flower Basket

You can make the flowers from plain paper (works best for young children), or make fancier flowers from tissue paper. Kids who can color, cut, and glue can do the project themselves or with a little assistance, but they may need an adult to help cut the hole in the paper plate.

Supplies

• two paper plates
• scraps of colored paper or tissue paper
• green paper
• glue
• tape
• scissors
• markers
• ribbon (optional)

Plain Paper Flowers

First, draw flower shapes on colored paper. You’ll need about eight flowers to fill the basket. The basket looks best with lots of different colors. Use yellow for daffodils, purple for irises, pink for tulips or roses, orange for lilies, or blue for pansies. Or make up flowers of your own!

Cut out the colored paper flowers, and decorate the flowers with markers.

Tissue Paper Flowers

Here’s a very simple way to make tissue paper flowers. Cut six squares of tissue paper, about 2” to 5” in size. Lay the pieces on top of each other and trim the edges off, forming a stack of circles. (They don’t have to be perfectly round.) Pinch the center of the circles and scrunch the paper together. Gently ruffle out the layers of paper into petals. Make four to eight flowers of varying colors and sizes.