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This paper plate flower craft project is sure to put a happy smile on your face. The paper plate flowers are so jolly and springlike! It’s super-easy to make these and you don’t need any fine motor skills for your paper plate project. It’s great fun to do paper plate crafts with the little ones and even preschoolers can manage this project with a little assistance.
Looking for creative ideas for crafting? This paper plate flower craft project is fun, easy and full of the joys of spring! You’ll have fun with this.
If you’re a craft lover, you might also like to try DIY beeswax wraps, pom pom bookmarks or mason jar cocktail gift sets. These DIY birdseed ornaments are fun to make too.
Why You’ll Love This
Easy: This is a very simple project and preschoolers, home schoolers or kindergarteners will be able to make flower crafts with or without your assistance depending on age. It would also be a cute project for grandparents to do with their grandkids!
Pretty: You can use your desired colors and get creative with paper plate craft projects. Choose whichever colors you want to personalize your paper plate flowers!
Cheap: Paper plates, cupcake liners, pain, and wooden sticks cost very little, making this an economical project to enjoy.
Paper Plate Flower Craft Equipment
A complete list of ingredients and amounts can be found in the recipe card below
Paper plates: 6-inch paper plates (here) work nicely to make each large flower. If you don’t want to paint the plates, you can use colored ones.
Cupcake liners: Green ones for the leaves and colored ones (here) or white ones to paint for the flower petals. You need both regular and mini size ones (or just regular size ones with some trimmed down using scissors). Gold mini cupcake liners (here) are used for the flower centers.
Acrylic craft paints: Pink and yellow look pretty or you can pick your favorites.
Brads: If you don’t do a lot of crafting, you might be wondering what a brad is! It’s another name for split metal pins (here) which you push through the middle of the flowers and then open at the back to hold the flowers in place.
Glue: Use whatever you have – hot glue, craft glue, glue sticks, or Elmer’s glue (which can take a bit longer to dry than the other kinds).
Craft sticks: Green craft sticks work well (here) or you could use regular wooden sticks and paint them green yourself.
How to Make Paper Plate Flowers
For more detailed instructions with measurements and amounts, jump to the printable card below
Paint the paper plates: Paint the plates in your preferred colors and then let them dry.
Attach the sticks: Glue a craft stick to the back of each painted plate.
Make the flowers: Flatten out a cupcake liner and a mini cupcake liner and push a brad through the center then close it behind to hold the cupcake liners together.
Make flower petals: Fold some cupcake liners in half and fold each corner to meet in the middle, then stick each petal under the larger cupcake liner.
Add the leaves: Fold the green cupcake liners in half and paste to the back of the craft stick. And you’re done!
Substitutions and Variations
Colored plates: Using colored plates means you don’t have to paint your own.
Wooden sticks: If you can’t find green craft sticks, use regular craft sticks and paint them green.
What to Do with Them
As gifts: These would be ideal as a Mother’s Day or Easter gift.
Home decor: They’d also look cute on the refrigerator or wall for springtime or Easter.
Ideas to Personalize Paper Plate Flower Craft
Photos: Attach a photo of your child to the middle of each flower (grandmothers and aunts love this kind of gift!)
Candy: Attach a Rolo, Reese’s Miniature Cup or Hershey’s Kiss in the middle of each flower and give the finished flower candy bouquet as a charming gift.
Top Tips
Helping the little ones: The amount of help the kids making these will need depends on their age. Even smaller kids will be able to do the painting and maybe also the gluing.
Where to get supplies: You should be able to find all the crafting supplies at your local craft store or on Amazon. The cupcake liners and paper plates you can find at any grocery store.
Mounting them: If you like, you can glue the finished flower bouquets on to a sturdy piece of white or colored card stock, although this is optional.
Paper Plate Flowers FAQs
This depends on the paint you’re using, how thick it’s applied and the room temperature, but allow at least 20 minutes.
Yes you can if you want to. If you’re working with small kids or short on time, this might be easier.
Paper Plate Flower Crafts
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Choose your preferred paint color and paint the paper plates. Allow them to dry for at least 20 minutes.
Once the paint has completely dried, attach a craft stick to the back of the paper plate with glue to serve as the stem.
Take one mini cupcake liner and one standard-size liner. Flatten them out, then secure the mini liner to the standard liner using a brad. Punch through the paper plate and then close the brad.
Fold six cupcake liners in half, then fold each corner until it meets in the middle. Glue them under the standard-size liner attached to the paper plate.
For a leaf, fold the green cupcake liner in half and glue it to the back of the craft stick.
You will love this paper plate flower craft and the cute and colorful paper plate flowers. With just a few basic crafting items, you and the kids can make these fun paper plate flowers for Easter, for the start of the spring or as gifts for grandparents, aunties and so on. This is an easy project that even preschool children can manage under adult supervision.
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