Paper Daffodils

Materials

yellow construction paper

Instructions

1. You can use this activity to talk about the arrival of spring. Daffodils are
usually one of the first flowers to bloom in spring. You could also use this
activity to talk about how things grow and the life cycle of a plant.
2. Cut out two flower shapes with five petals, about 4" wide, from yellow
construction paper.
3. Cut out 3" squares of yellow or orange tissue paper.
4. Help children bunch up the tissue paper squares around their thumbs in
a tube shape to make the middle of a daffodil. Let them glue the tissue
paper to the middle of their flower shapes.
5. Provide green pipe cleaners. The children bend pipe cleaners in half to
make stems.
6. Use another half of a pipe cleaner to bend a leaf around the stem.
7. Help children glue one flower shape underneath the stem and the flower
shape with the daffodil middle on top of the stem. Let dry.