Hyper Colorful Painted Paper Plate Flowers!

Lately I've been enamored with paper plate crafts.  We always have a ton of cheap, white paper plates lying around and they're the perfect canvas.  A couple of days ago my son was sick and we stayed home all day.  Fortunately, we kept ourselves busy with Lego, lots of book reading, and two paper plate crafts.  We had such fun painting, I thought I'd share our crafts here.  Here's our first paper plate craft-

Hyper Colorful Painted Paper Plate Flowers

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So what do you think?  I'm in LOVE with how these flowers turned out.  Really, really, gorgeous.  And, (even better), they're really easy to make and paint too!  

Oh! If you're looking for some great books to go along with this gorgeous craft, check out the links below!

Our Favorite Flower and Plant Picture Books

• The Tiny Seed
• The Reason for a Flower
• Planting a Rainbow
• Zinnia's Flower Garden
• Growing Vegetable Soup
• A Seed is Sleepy
• The Carrot Seed
• Oh Say Can You Seed
• The Magic School Bus Plants Seeds
• Maisy Grows a Garden

And, if you're looking for some great inspirational art books to get the creative juices flowing, here are

Our current 20+ favorite art books:

• Colorful Dreamer
• The Iridescence of Birds
• Modern Art Adventures
• Mix it Up
• Press Here
• Any Ed Emberley Book
• The Day the Crayons Quit
• Beautiful Oops
• Dog's Colorful Day
• Too Much Glue
• Harold and the Purple Crayon
• Day with No Crayons
• Artist to Artist
• Artist Ted
• The House Baba Built
• A Blue Butterfly: A Story of Claude Monet
• Sandy's Circus
• A is for Art
• The Artful Parent
• This Bridge Will Not Be Grey
• Art Workshops for Children

Ok! Let's make some beautiful paper plate flowers!

Each flower consists of 4 cheap white paper plates.  (I like the uncoated ones the best!)  Then, I cut four different sized flowers from the plates.

Then, I curled the petals of the flowers by curling each petal around a marker.  (Note:  You could also paint the flowers before doing this step.)

Then, I stapled the flowers together.  (You could also glue them together, but I didn't want to wait for glue to dry.)

Then, I covered our work area (with an old Halloween tablecloth!).  I poured a couple of drops of liquid watercolors into an old candy container, and we got painting!

Side note:  We LOVE our liquid watercolors.  They are our current favorite art supplies.  You don't need a lot and you always get such beautiful vibrant colors.  Yes, your hands will get dyed in the process, but everything washes off.  My son wasn't always into painting with me before because he didn't like getting Tempera paint on his fingers.  Maybe it was a texture thing?  But he really enjoys using this paint.

Once everything dried, we covered the centers with circle stickers.

That's it!

 We have over 30+ flower and plant crafts on the blog, and this one is definitely one of my favorites.  If you're still in the mood for flower crafts, definitely check out the whole list!  

5 More Fun and Beautiful Kids Crafts

And... if you liked this craft, you might also like these others too!

• Peg Doll Necklaces
• Easy Abstract Art With Kids
• GIANT DIY Scratchboards
• Folding Popsicle Stick Fan
• Gorgeous Tissue Paper Flowers

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Happy creating, friends!