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Thistle Flower Craft

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Scotland Thistle

We created this thistle craft to represent Scotland for all the favourite Scottish celebrations such as St Andrews day or Burns night.  It’s not a craft that needs to look exactly the same as everyone else’s, so feel free to change it up as much as your child wants!  You can also change it up to create other types of flowers, the bubble wrap effect would be perfect for the middle of sunflowers too.

As always it’s very simple to make!

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You will need:

  • White card
  • Cardboard
  • Bubble wrap
  • Glue
  • Green paint
  • Scissors
  • Purple wool (yarn)

To Make:

1.  Cut out a circle of cardboard and glue the bubble wrap on to the cardboard. Trim the extra bubble wrap off to make a complete circle.  We traced round a roll of sellotape to make the circle shape.

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2.  Paint the bubble wrap with green paint (or change up and make it any colour you want!) and print onto the paper.

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3.  Cut the purple wool into short strands and glue on top of the thistle.

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4.  Use fingers to make the thistle stem and leaves.

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Ta-da!  A cute thistle craft!  This could also be used on cards, just print the bubble wrap circle on lots of different cards at once, then move onto the purple hairs and stem.

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  1. Let kids be kids says

    Aw, that’s a lovely simple idea. It looks great too.
    Thanks for linking #LetKidsBeKids

  2. Tickle Fingers says

    What a great idea, both the blog hop and your lovely thistle. #LetKidsBeKids

  3. becky says

    This is lovely, what a nice linky to take part in and a great craft too.

    And of course, Thanks for linking up to #ToddlerApprovedTuesday. We also have a pinboard and facebook page you can join and post to, just tweet us if you would like adding!