Crafts: Flowers

  • Egg Carton Flowers That Look Like Porcelain!

    Egg Carton Flowers That Look Like Porcelain!

    I have started crafting for my son’e upcoming Bar Mitzvah, and as usual have a bunch of ideas that I’m not sure how to bring together, so the best thing to do in that case is simply get started! The first of hopefully many great surprises is that one can quite simply make lovely modern…

  • DIY Paper Plant: Flowering Bromeliad

    DIY Paper Plant: Flowering Bromeliad

    A DIY paper plant can be the perfect solution if you need an inexpensive and festive party centerpiece (especially if you need a bunch) and best of all they can be made in any size that works for you. Not all the paper plants that i’ve seen in blogland have been quick to make, so…

  • Crepe Paper Flowers With Pom Pom Centers (Perfect For Shavous!)

    Crepe Paper Flowers With Pom Pom Centers (Perfect For Shavous!)

    Here is a fun crepe paper flower craft that is done in two steps, and produces great results. Make these flowers in a bunch of sizes, and affix them to a large board, or hot glue a string to the back for hanging. Or how about some on your front door? Whatever you decide to…

  • Crafts For Kids: Gorgeous Flowers From Recycled Materials!

    Crafts For Kids: Gorgeous Flowers From Recycled Materials!

    Egg carton flowers are so much fun to make and can be used to decorate so many things. With the holiday of Shavuos coming up, now is a great time to start filling the house with flowers and greenery to remind us of Mt. Sinai (where the Torah was given), and what better way than…

  • Birthday Letter Banner With Rolled Paper Roses (With Simple Supplies!)

    Birthday Letter Banner With Rolled Paper Roses (With Simple Supplies!)

    A birthday banner decorated with an initial letter covered in rolled paper roses will be sure to please the birthday girl (or woman) and you can whip it up with the simplest of supplies! Last week when we arrived at a lovely dairy farm in Sullivan County, New York for a family get together, I…

  • Felt Rosebud Bouquet Revisited (And How To Wash Your Old One!)

    Felt Rosebud Bouquet Revisited (And How To Wash Your Old One!)

    Back in 2009, when I had just started this little blog, I made a felt rosebud bouquet that was quite a hit, and I’ve been using it ever since most recently as decor on a side table in our tiny guest room. Because I never glued the foam ball into the original vase, I have…

  • Painting Flowers On Cardboard Scraps, Fun For BOYS!

    Painting Flowers On Cardboard Scraps, Fun For BOYS!

    Sometimes the simplest of art projects can have some of the greatest results — like these wonderful flowers that my group of boys painted at Crafting A Future as a part of a project for the holiday of Shavuot. Truthfully, I had so many kid crafted flowers to share, that I decide to hang on…

  • Rolled Felt Loopy (And Not So Loopy) Flowers Mirror Craft For Kids

    Rolled Felt Loopy (And Not So Loopy) Flowers Mirror Craft For Kids

    This week at Crafting A Future, while some of the girls used their egg carton flowers to decorate mirrors, others ditched the egg carton flowers alltogether and made these sweet rolled felt flowers to decorate their mirrors. This would be a perfect little project for a Bat Mitzvah, or a birthday party, and hey even…

  • Egg Carton Flower Bouquet Craft For Kids

    Egg Carton Flower Bouquet Craft For Kids

    How about getting the kids busy making a simply sweet egg carton flower bouquet, just in time for Shavuot, or some other festive occasion? Egg carton flowers are so fun to make, and even if a child only has the patience to make a few, (which was the case here) with some skewers and craft…

  • Newsprint Paper Flowers With Crepe Paper Center Tutorial

    Newsprint Paper Flowers With Crepe Paper Center Tutorial

    Festive, budget friendly and simple to make are how I’d describe these newsprint paper flowers that I whipped up the other day as last minute centerpieces. And since newsprint is used rather than tissue paper or crepe paper, the bottom layers of the flower retain their petal shapes and make a nice sturdy base, enabling…

  • Newsprint & Crepe Paper Flower Centerpieces

    Newsprint & Crepe Paper Flower Centerpieces

    Tons of flower crafting going on around here with the holiday of Shavuot coming up next week, so when I was asked to make some last minute flower centerpieces for a community get together, I just rolled up my sleeves a bit further, and got to work, and came up with these fun newsprint and…

  • Egg Carton Flowers, An Amazing Craft For All Ages

    Egg Carton Flowers, An Amazing Craft For All Ages

    This week at craftng a future, I introduced my lively group of 7 to 11 year old girls to the wonders of making gorgeous flowers using egg cartons. I spent most of the time cutting up flats of egg cartons to give the girls a head start, so I didn’t get to make any myself,…