Easy Summer Flower Crafts to Make with Young Kids

The following summer ideas include, songs and easy flower crafts to do with your young children.

Songs

Daisies Are Blooming (Tune: Mary Had a Little Lamb)

Daisies blooming all around

All around, all around.

Daisies blooming all around

What a lovely sight!

Yellow Buttercups (Tune: Down by the Station)

Out in the meadow

On a summer's morning

See the yellow buttercups

All in the field.

Hold them to your chin, now.

See if you like butter.

Yellow, yellow buttercups

Yes, I like butter.

A Flower(Traditionalfingerplay)

My hand is a bud closed up tight

Without a tiny speck of light (make a fist)

Then slowly the petals open for me

And here is a beautiful flower you see. (slowly open up the hand)

Flower crafts

Muffin Cup Flowers

Hand out a piece of colored paper to your kids and a few paper muffin cups. Have the kids flatten out the muffin cups and glue them onto the colored paper. Add a stem made from a green pipe cleaner or cut out a stem from green construction paper. Voila - a summertime flower.

Lilacs and Forsythia Bushes

Give your kids a large piece of drawing paper and a brown marker. Have the kids draw branches all over the paper. Hand out sponges and yellow or purple paint to each of the kids. Dip the sponge in the paint and daub it over the brown branches to make either yellow forsythia bushes or lilac shrubs. This is a really simple craft that even your toddlers will love to create.

Daisies

Pre-cut white flower petals and have your children glue them onto a colored piece of paper. Add a yellow center and stem after the petals are glued on the paper. Hang the daisies around the room and sing the daisy song with your kids.

Coffee Filter Buttercups

Cut a coffee filter into small circles and have the children use an eyedropper to drop yellow food coloring onto the cutout filters. When the filters dry, attach them to a green pipe cleaner and fold them into flower petal shapes. Hold the buttercups under each other's chins and see if you like butter!

Resource: Karen's Child Care Program