Let’s craft flowers! Today we have our favorite easy flower crafts to make with kids of all ages, but especially younger kids. These preschool flower crafts require only a few supplies and are easy to make individually or as a preschool class. Make a simple flower craft or easy flower bouquet to celebrate any day!
Easy Ways to Craft Flowers
Everyone loves flower making! We are calling these simple flower crafts, preschool flower crafts because they can be made by little hands without worrying about crafting skills. In fact, making flowers is not only fun but increases fine motor skills and creativity through play.
Related: Tulip Crafts for preschoolers
These craft flowers are also really good kid-made gifts. Kids can make flowers and flower bouquets to give to mom, a teacher or other loved one.
Simple Flower Crafts for Kids
1. Easy Paper Plate Rose Craft
Want to know how to make a paper rose easy? This paper plate flowers activity that is great for a class or at home. I have done this with a second grade class and simply been the adult walking around with the stapler. This is one of my favorite class flower ideas since paper plates are fairly cheap.
Related: So many easy ways to make paper roses
2. Make Coffee Filter Roses
Coffee filter roses are GORGEOUS and could be a great project for even very small kids. This is a flower craft the preschool kids can easily do and one of our many great flower activities for toddlers. Don’t have coffee filters? No problem! You could also do this is tissue paper to make tissue paper flowers.
3. Use Your Handprints to Make Flowers
I am loving this handprint flower craft. This is another great flower craft preschool kids can do. Not only will it work on fine motor skills, but they’ll be able to make a beautiful handprint bouquet for mom, dad, or a grandparent or keep their as your own flowers!
Flower handprint crafts are best made with regular construction paper as the fingers are easier to curl.
Related: Make an origami flower <–so many fun ideas to choose from!
4. Make Flowers with Cupcake Liners
Flower cupcake cups are a simple way to make bright and friendly daffodils. We did something a little different in the video, but these cupcake liner flowers are adorable!
These are such fun flowers to make! Plus, you can mix and match different colorful cup cake liners.
Related: Another cupcake liner flowers idea for preschool
5. Craft Flowers from Egg Cartons
Michele, of Michele Made Me, recycled egg cartons into works of art. These egg carton flowers are lovely and exotic and most importantly, these are flowers kids can make fairly easily. Plus it is one of many different ways to make flowers beyond the traditional paper kind using recycled items from your recycling bin!
6. Create Paper Bag Flowers
Kim at A Girl and a Glue Gun has the cutest preschool flower craft. She made some adorable flowers using brown paper bags! This is simple flower making for kids that not only is cheap, but these preschool flower ideas work on kid’s fine motor skills and they get to color the flower and make them lovely! I bet you could also do this with craft paper as well if you folded it.
7. Plastic Bag Flower Craft
In this easy flower craft for kids, you will need a plastic bag and a Q Tip for each plastic flower you make! Kids will have such fun with this flower making activity!
8. Preschool Flower Crafts Made of Newspaper
Lisa of Simple Journey, a fellow Texan, made these newspaper flowers. They are stunning (even if fragile). These are great preschool flower crafts, and easy to do, but you get to also break out the water colors. And let’s be honest, who doesn’t love water colors? Plus, these have a very retro vibe to them. These colorful flowers would make great decorations.
9. Beaded Flower Bracelet Craft
Do you have a lot of pony beads? We do! Bethany, of My Kids Make, made these pony bead flowers with her daughters. You can easily use the pony beads to make a daisy! It really makes this bracelet nice and bright! The best part is these bracelets can be made with a variety of materials like twin, yarn, wood beads, etc.
10. Construction Paper Flower Project For Kindergarten Kids
Buckland, of Learning is Fun made some Poppy’s with paper and chopsticks! Poppies are so underrated, because they are beautiful. And while we may not be allowed to have a real poppy, this paper flower project for kindergarten kids is the next best thing.
11. Make a Zipper Rose Craft
Design by Night has a flower that they made from a zipper. This is a no-sew craft using glue. These zipper roses are absolutely stunning though! This would also be a great craft for older kids as well.
12. Yarn Flower Bouquet Craft Made on a Fork Template
Mindy from Homesteadin Mama , created some fun spring flowers with her kids using scraps of yarn, a fork, and some scissors, as well as a pipe cleaner. This yarn bouquet is a great flower craft preschool kids can do fairly easily. Being able to use up scraps so I don’t have to throw them out and waste them is one of the best things.
13. Make Ribbon Flowers
And lastly, the Quirky kids and I routinely make ribbon flowers together. They love wearing them and I love making them. We can easily show you how to make flowers out of ribbon, the best part is, these flower ribbons can be turned into barrettes!
14. Printable Flower Craft with Paper Flower Template
This paper flower template is the perfect flower craft for preschoolers, toddlers, or even kindergarten kids. Let them color the flower any way they want, cut it out, and put it together again with a glue stick.
Related: So many cute flower crafts can start with our flower coloring pages
15. Make Pipe Cleaner Flowers
These super easy to make pipe cleaner flowers are adorable and great for a preschool flower craft idea or even trying with younger kids like a toddler flower craft. I love it when I get a bouquet of pipe cleaner flowers!
Related: Here is another way to use pipe cleaner flowers for a handmade card
16. Big Tissue Paper Flowers Kids Can Make
These easy tissue paper flowers are the perfect craft kids can make together. We love these big Mexican flowers to decorate the house or classroom!
Related: This paper sunflowers craft uses tissue paper in a different way
17. Draw a Flower Instead!
Kids can follow along this step by step guide to making their own flower drawing and then color and decorate it as they wish. It is way easier than you might think to learn how to draw a flower with this printable tutorial.
More Flower Ideas from Kids Activities Blog
- Flowers are fun to make, but what if you could eat the flowers you made? These lovely sweets are absolutely perfect. They’re floral and bright!
- Bust out your colored pencils or markers, because you will love these beautiful zentangle flowers. These free printables are so much fun and this set has 3 beautiful flowers to color!
- Sometimes crafts don’t have to be fancy with scissors, paint, and glue. Sometimes a good drawing is all you need! Now you make a sunflower drawing with this step by step guide.
- Looking for some simple flowers to color? Look no further! We have flower coloring pages! These simple paper flowers can be colored with crayons, markers, paints, pencils, pens…make them your own!
- Want another easy craft and other pre k activities? We have over 1,000 of them! You are sure to find something fun for your little one.
- Check out these great flower crafts!
- We love these fun sunflower crafts!
- Turn these egg carton flowers into a pretty wreath.
What was your favorite flower craft? Which of the flower crafts are you going to make first?
