Big Flowers

My son did this craft at Cherubs before I ran the group - he loved the glitter otherwise known as "Shake Shake" when he was two. Five years later on we still do this craft. What's better to a two year old than dribbling gloopy PVA glue and shaking glitter everywhere!

Originally the flower was a pre-bought foam flower, but now we just cut them out of cardboard. The flower is more or less exactly the same shape as this template I found from DLTK. A jumbo sized lollipop stick is cellotaped onto the back to make form the stalk, and the flower centre is a circle of coloured paper.

My tip for when you use glitter at a toddler group is lots of newspaper, and several paper plates in the middle of the table with "shake excess glitter here!"

By drizzling the glue on the flower, it gives a more lined pattern, rather than a solid glitter covering from spreading the glue.

The toddler LOVED shaking their glitter, but the parents stress levels were raised slightly as the glitter flowed.

Here are flowers that the toddlers made this morning: