Stamped Flower Craft with Corks and Buttons
Use corks and paint is a fun way to make flower prints and a creative way to introduce young children to the wonderful technique of printmaking.
These adorable cork-stamped flowers will brighten up a table-top or window-sill or any little corner of your home! What a fun spring craft for kids.
See all of our wine cork crafts and activities here.
We are so ready to say goodbye to winter and to dive into some spring crafting. The hooligans are off on spring break this week, and I’ve been playing around with some some flower craft ideas ideas that I’ve had in my head for a while now.
The hooligans love stamping, so I often make homemade stamps with things I have around the house. These flower stamps are my latest invention. They are fun to make! When I tested our stamps them to see how they would work, I had so much fun that I couldn’t stop! Before I knew it, I was elbow deep in colourful, stamped paper flowers!
P.S. You might also like our nature stamping activity with REAL flowers from the garden.
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Supplies:
Corks are great for all kinds of crafts and activities!
Before you all ask me just how much wine we drink around here, let me explain. We kind of collect wine corks. We hang on to ours, and our friends give us theirs.
Why?
Because wine corks are great for: fine motor activities, sink or float experiments, Christmas ornaments, and… making homemade stamps.
Turning your corks into flower stamps:
For today’s craft, I made 2 flower stamps. I made this small pansy stamp with 3 corks,
and a larger flower stamp with 7 corks.
To make your stamps, simply assemble them on a flat surface, and secure with a rubber band.
If you don’t have enough corks, fear not! I made a few flowers by dipping and stamping a single cork!
Get stamping!
Drizzle 3 colours of paint on to your styrofoam tray.
Now, press a cork stamp into the paint. You may have to move it around slightly to get good coverage. Go easy though, you don’t want your colours to all blur together.
Press your stamp down firmly on your white card stock. Lift and…. aren’t they PRETTY?
Dip back into your paint and stamp again, and again! You may find it rather addictive. You’ll understand how I got carried away. 🙂
Let your paint dry, and then cut out your flowers.
Glue a button to the centre of each flower. I used my glue gun. Kids can use a low temp glue gun
Glue a straw to the back of each flower, and pop them into a little vase or jar.
I love these little egg-cups. I filled them with buttons, and tucked in a flower.
What do you think? Isn’t it just the prettiest, little flower craft going?
I’ll be sharing more with you when the hooligans return!
Meanwhile… check out these adorable egg carton flowers.
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Jackie is a mom, wife, home daycare provider, and the creative spirit behind Happy Hooligans. She specializes in kids’ crafts and activities, easy recipes, and parenting. She began blogging in 2011, and today, Happy Hooligans inspires more than 2 million parents, caregivers and Early Years Professionals all over the globe.
