Now it’s time to paint! Dip a finger into the paint and paint dots on the paper plate to make center of the flower. For names longer than 8 letters you may need to overlap the petals, which looks really nice too.Īfter the petals are glued down, write the letters of the student’s name in order – one letter per petal. Ours fit nicely around the edge without overlapping. Next, start gluing down the sunflower petals. Doing the Sunflower Name Fingerprint Craft:įirst, flip the small paper plate over so it’s face-down. For kids with more than 8 letters in their name, more petals can be made. That way I had 8 sunflower petals cut all at once. I kept it folded and drew a petal shape to use as a cutting guide, and then cut through all 8 layers of paper. I folded the sheet of paper in half lengthwise, then along the width, and then along the width again. To do this, I folded a piece of yellow construction paper into eighths. One sheet of construction paper can make 8 petals. To get this craft ready, I pre-cut the sunflower petals. Getting the Sunflower Name Fingerprint Craft Ready: Non-toxic, washable paint in black and/or brown.Paper dessert plates (usually 7 inches in diameter or less).Materials Needed for the Sunflower Name Fingerprint Craft: We made ours for grandma and she loves it. If you’re doing this at home with your kids, they make nice keepsakes. Just add stems and leaves with green paper and you will have a nice sunflower field to introduce all of the new students in your class. When doing this with a whole class, these would look BEAUTIFUL as a bulletin board display. To make it extra fun and crafty, we used paint to add fingerprints to the center. When I think of back-to-school season I usually think of apples, but my favorite August and September symbol is the sunflower. The first day of school often involves learning names too, so I thought a sunflower name and fingerprint craft would be great to along with introductions during the beginning of a new school year. With the school year coming to an end, it’s already about time to start planning for next year.
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