It’s never too early to get your young ones started on craft projects.  Craft projects engage all their visual and motor skills and encourage them to practice using their creativity in a fun & safe environment.  There are a few special tips for choosing preschool craft ideas.  The best craft ideas for kids this age should be simple, easy to clean up afterwards and use readily available objects that can be found in the house.  It helps to have projects that can be finished in 10 to 20 minutes since kids have shorter attention span.  If you must work on a longer project with your kid, choose projects that can be broken into separate components.

This is the first in a series of posts featuring easy preschool children craft ideas.  Today, I’m going to show you how to make a pressed flower picture.

Pressed Flower Picture Supplies:

1. Fresh flowers
2. Paper towels
3. A few heavy books
4. Glue
5. Some paper for the background – you can use construction paper, scrapbook paper, newspaper or other recycled paper for variation
6. Picture frame (optional)

Pressed Flower Picture Instructions:

1. Gather flowers with your kids. Take advantage of late summer blooms now.
2. You’ll press flower between hardcover books. Line the pages with paper towels. Put flower petals in between the paper towels. Be careful not to overlap the flowers.  Close the book and put something heavy on top of the book.
3. After 2-3 weeks, the flowers are ready to be put into a picture.
4. On a piece of construction paper (trimmed to the same size as your picture frame if you want to frame it), apply a dab of glue on a small area.  Let your kid decide how to arrange the flower petals.  Gently press the flower petals on top of the glue area.
5. Repeat the above step – continue to put a little bit of glue and press the flower on the piece of paper.
6. Once the picture is finished, seal the picture with sealant before framing.  This will ensure that the flowers get preserved.

That’s it!  Here are some photos of pressed flower picture for your inspiration!

This is the first of five preschool children craft ideas brought to you by Kid-Craft-Project.com.  If you liked what you’ve read, you can read more about easy preschool craft ideas at Kid Craft Project.  In the next few blog posts, I’ll show you how to make pretty button clips, quick stamp magnets, edible pasta jewelry and beautiful beach treasure pendants!

Secrets of Flower Pressing

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