Celebrate the first flowers of spring with a craft that's easy for little hands. These cheerful blooms are great on an Easter table or a sunny windowsill.
You need:
Pipe cleaners
Plastic spoons
Green plastic twist ties (on spool)
Low-temperature glue gun and glue sticks
Scissors
Decorative pot or urn
Moss
To make:
Fold over end of pipe cleaner 2.5 cm (1 inch) and twist together; repeat on other end.
Repeat 3 more times, for total of 4 pipe cleaners. Gather pipe cleaners together and bend in half, twisting pipe centers loosely to form single unit.
Apply hot glue to top of handle of plastic spoon; adhere pipe cleaner bundle to handle, overlapping loose pipe cleaner ends with bowl of spoon.
Repeat with 3 more spoons to form flower.
Cut two 20.5 cm (8-inch) lengths of twist tie; twist around spoon handles and curl as desired.
Make more crocuses. Bundle together and arrange in pot. Fill in spaces around crocuses with moss.
Excerpted from Create, Update, Remake by Austen Gilliland and Canadian Living Magazine Copyright © 2011 by Austen Gilliland and Canadian Living Magazine. Excerpted by permission of Transcontinental. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.
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