
- Card stock
- Watercolors
- Glitter
- Glue
- Hot glue (optional)
- Sticks
- Scissors or craft knife
- Flower-shape punch (optional)
- Bottle or vase
- Marbles or glass stones
- Dough (optional)
- Grab one or two sticks from your nature-walk collection (everyone has a nature-walk collection, right?) and prune them so they begin to take the shape of a tree. If there aren’t enough “branches”, use another stick that could fill in the gaps.
- To keep your sticks in place, fill your bottle or vase with marbles or maybe your rock collection. If you don’t have anything heavy to fill it with, use a ball of dough. Set aside.
- To prepare the flowers with watercolors, paint some circles on white or light colored card stock. Allow to dry.
- To prepare both kinds of flowers, cut out flower shapes with a scissors or use a flower hole punch if you have one. Try to center the flower over the water colored circle before cutting out the shape.
- You can now add some glitter to the flowers by adding a dab of glue to the middle of each flower. Then sprinkle on some colorful glitter. Allow to dry.
- Add some dimension to your flowers by pinching each petal and folding them toward the center.
- Now you’re ready to start gluing your flowers to the tree. A hot glue gun works best but let a grownup do this part. Regular glue will work too.
There, now you’ve got lovely sakuras to brighten up your home any time of the year! Enjoy!
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