Basket of Flowers

Choose from a collection of printable flowers and basket templates to color and decorate.	Safety Tips Young kids (3 to 8 years) should use child-safe scissors.
Materials Printable paper or card stock Green construction paper Crayons, oil pastels or colored pencils Scissors Glue stick

Steps

	1.	Create a basket by following the instructions in our Paper Basket craft.
	2.	There are a lot of ways to decorate this basket, some of which were shown in the Paper Basket craft. For this basket, I want to show how to make a woven effect that's really easy to make. First, cut out paper into short strips.
	3.	Glue the strips onto the basket in rows. Don't worry about going over the edges and you can decorate both sides of the basket if you like.
	4.	Cut out the excess length of paper strips along the basket's edges.
	5.	Print out any of these flower templates or draw your own flowers.
	6.	Color the flowers.
	7.	Cut them out.
	8.	Cut 4-inch long strips from green construction paper for the stems. Glue a stem at the back of each flower.
	9.	Slip the flowers inside the basket. Trim the stems if necessary.
	10.	This basket of flowers can be carried around or glued onto a paper background.
	11.	You can slip in a note or a mini greeting card before giving this flower arrangement to your loved one.

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