My search for a suitable Memorial Day craft on the Web yielded nothing. Oh, there is a galore of fantastic ideas, but somehow none of them looked appealing enough to try to make with a bunch of 4-to-9-year-olds. That is the age range in my Sunday School class at the moment. So, I rolled up my sleeves and came up with this simple picture that involves just coloring and pasting, and following instructions. For my class, I will prepare all the poppy pieces, so all that is left for the little hands to do is to assemble the flower and glue it together.
This is what Andrew and Saara will be making on Wednesday evening during their Children's Hour.
Materials needed for the poppy: cupcake liner, red tissue paper, pencil, scissors, black construction paper, glue stick, and one brown craft pom-pom.
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| Flatten the cupcake liner and use it to trace three circles out of the tissue paper. |
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| Fold each circle in half and cut wavy edges. I cut each circle a bit smaller than the previous one. |
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| The tree layers of the flower are ready to be twisted. |
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| Holding the circle from the center, twist it around. |
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| Untwist the circles. |
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| Add just a dab of glue to the center of the circles and glue them on top of each other. |
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| It is beginning to look like a poppy. |
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| From the construction paper cut out two rectangles 1 1/4" x 3/4" in size. Fold them in half and cut off the folded corners. Cut the open edge into a fringe, open the paper and curl the fringed edges around a pencil. |
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| Glue one fringed paper piece in the center of the layered circles with the curls facing up. |
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| Glue the other piece crossways on top of the first one, again with the fringed edges curling up. |
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| From the pom-pom assortment, find the right size pom-pom. |
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| Glue the pom-pom in the center of the flower. |
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| For my class, I printed out a card I will have the children color and then glue the poppy on the circle in the middle of the card. |
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| Should be easy and fun to make. |
My search for a suitable Memorial Day craft on the Web yielded nothing. Oh, there is a galore of fantastic ideas, but somehow none of them looked appealing enough to try to make with a bunch of 4-to-9-year-olds. That is the age range in my Sunday School class at the moment. So, I rolled up my sleeves and came up with this simple picture that involves just coloring and pasting, and following instructions. For my class, I will prepare all the poppy pieces, so all that is left for the little hands to do is to assemble the flower and glue it together. 
