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Paper Crafts for Summer - Paper Daisy Plant Poke
Within a short time, you can make a simple daisy like this to decorate any green plant in your home. Another charming idea is to make a group of these daisies. Fill a charming terracotta pot with sand and stick the finished daisies in the pot for a bouquet. It makes a nice decoration for a shelf or a window sill.
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For this project you will need:
- Pattern below for the flower
- heavyweight textured cardstock in white
- yellow cardstock
- thin wooden stick or skewer
- green acrylic paint
- natural raffia in green
- craft glue
- hot glue gun
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Instructions:
1. Print out and trace the flower pattern twice on the white cardstock.
2. Cut the flowers out.
3. Cut 1 circle out of the yellow cardstock to fit the center of the flower.
4. Bend the petals of one of the flowers inward.
5. Glue the circle in the center of that flower.
6. Glue the flower with the bent petals onto the flat flower. Turn the top flower so that all of the petals can be seen.
7. Paint the stick green and let it dry. It dries within a matter of minutes.
8. Hot glue the dried stick to the back of the flower.
9. Take 1 piece of raffia and cut it in half. Then knot the raffia onto stick just underneath the flower.
When children are helping, please supervise them when using the hot glue gun.
Pattern: Daisy
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All Artist Trading Cards
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Greeting Cards and Birthday Cards
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Summer and All Occasion Craft Patterns
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