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April showers bring May flowers, but why wait until May? Create your own beautiful bouquet with goodies from around the house. All you need are some plastic cups and whatever else you have on hand to decorate them with!

You will need

plastic drinking cups
scissors
hot glue gun
white craft glue
12" dowel or stick
items to decorate with (beads, buttons, pom poms, tissue paper, paint, etc)

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What you do

Use a pen (parents please!) or other fairly sharp object to poke a hole into the side of the cup, about one inch from the bottom.

Cut slits halfway up the cup with your scissors. Bend slits outward.

Lay cup on table with bottom of cup facing upward, this is the center of your flower.

Use anything you have on hand to decorate the center. We used pom poms, buttons, tissue paper squares (wrapped around a pencil eraser) and pony beads. Use white craft glue to adhere them to the center of the flower and set aside to dry.

Warm up the hot glue gun.

Insert dowel into the hole you made in the side of the cup (see figure 1) earlier. Insert the dowel until the end of it hits the other side of the cup (see figure 2). Hot glue in place.

figure 1

figure 2

Special thanks to Debbie Knechtel of Ontario, Canada for this craft idea!

See more of Amanda Formaro's craft projects and kid's recipes on FamilyCorner.com

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About the Author:
Amanda Formaro is the crafty, entrepreneurial mother of four children. She loves to bake, cook and make crafts. She is the craft expert for FamilyCorner.com and Kaboose.com. You can see her crafty creations on Crafts by Amanda and her delicious recipes on Amanda's Cookin'. She is also the owner of Fun Family Crafts.