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Garden Craft: Paper Flower Garden In A Box

In this post, I will be sharing a "garden" craft. This is a craft project that Lauren did in Brightly Beaming Resources' (Step 3: Sound of the Week) home school curriculum for the "ar" sound as in "garden", Click Here To Find Out Why We Are Doing Homeschooling. 


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The flowers are made by alternately gluing together construction papers and patterned papers creating a variety of fun looking bunch of flowers, buttons and beads are glued on the center of each flowers, barbecue sticks wrapped in brown paper are used as stems.  The paper flowers are then inserted and arranged into a box stuffed with Styrofoam.

READY FOR KID BEFORE STARTING ACTIVITY ALONG WITH OTHER MATERIALS

* deep empty carboard box

* cut flowers, leaves, and grass patterns 

* sticks covered with paper in any color of choice (example: brown or green) for stems

* Cut small pieces of paper to cover top of box

FREE PRINTABLE DIGITAL PAPERS TO CREATE YOUR FLOWERS!

Check out these FREE printable colorful digital papers in patterns of dots, stripes and chevron by clicking on the links below. They are perfect for use in all kinds of crafts and DIY projects, use them to create patterned paper flowers!


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Choose any pattern you like and download for free, locate downloaded file or extract chosen digital paper from a zip file into a specific location in your computer, right-click on the image and click on print in the pop-up that appears. In printing settings, choose the size of paper you will be printing the image to (example: letter or legal size), on the right side choose "full page photo" thumbnail and make sure "fit to picture frame" box is checked then click on "print".

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* "FREE Tri Color Chevron Stripes Digital Paper" by Free Pretty Things For You


* "FREE Diagonal Stripe Digital Scrapbooking Paper" by Free Pretty Things For You

DONE BY ADULT OR PARENT

NOTE: This craft is a collaboration between parent or caregiver and child and is suitable for kids about 7 and above, you may adapt the process to the skill or ability of the child. You may not finish the craft all at once in a day if you can't but you can work on it day by day or in a series of days until you can finish the whole project.

* GARDEN BOX: Take a medium or small sized empty box (preferably a deep one). Depending on the type of box you will be using, if it's the type of box that is printed, you can invert this box to reveal the cardboard material inside and just tape it back again using a white masking tape. If you are using a pure cardboard type material of box, you can skip this process. 

* GARDEN GRASS: Take a green construction paper and draw or trace a grass pattern on it. 

* FLOWER STEMS: Wrap barbecue sticks with any shade of green or brown construction paper. 

* FLOWER LEAVES: Fold green construction paper several times to create multiple sections on the paper. Draw a leaf pattern on top of folded paper then cut to create several leaves in one cutting.

* FLOWERS: Draw or use some flower templates. Create the same flowers or do a variety of flower shapes for your garden box. Click Here For Free Printable Flower Shapes Templates in various shapes and sizes. Create a single size or 2 sizes of flower patterns (big and small flowers), let child choose colors of construction papers and the pattern papers to be used. Trace a flower pattern or print flower shapes template alternately on a construction paper and on a pattern paper. Your child may create a single flower in different sizes, colors and pattern papers or create a double flower in 1 (with 2 sizes of flower patterns glued together: small flower pattern on top of big flower pattern) as shown in our sample.

* GARDEN BOX TOP COVERING: Cut brown construction papers, into smaller strips  (about 1/8 in size). 

DONE BY CHILD

* Draw details on garden box

* Cut flower, leaf, and grass patterns

* Decorate or glue flowers together

* Draw leaf details (optional)

* Tape sticks on flowers

STEPS IN DOING THIS GARDEN CRAFT

STEP #1: Let child draw details on the box using pencil then trace the pencil details with permanent marker in any color of choice (example: blue, red, black, etc.). Afterwards, let child color the box with crayon or oil pastel colors. Set the box aside.


STEP #2: Next, let child create the flowers. Add a button or bead as a centerpiece using hot melt glue. Put hot glue on the spot and guide child to glue bead or button on it.


STEP #3: After creating the flowers, it's now time to attached the stems. Let the child tape the sticks at the back of each flowers. 


STEP #4: Next, let child glue some grass patterns or grasses on the sides of the box from the inside using white or liquid glue.


STEP #5: Next, let child put pieces of foam into the box, we use a large foam ball cut into smaller pieces as that's what we have available but it's better to use foam blocks if you have them. Cut the stems of each flowers to arrange them in different lengths (taller and shorter) than the other. Let the child insert the flower sticks onto the foams one by one. 


STEP #6: After inserting the flowers, let the child crumple the small pieces of cut 1/8 size brown construction papers to cover top of garden box.


STEP #7: Finally, let child glue the leaves on the stems to complete their paper flowers garden. They may draw additional leaf vein details on it or simply glue the leaves as it is using white or liquid glue.


And there goes your "Flower Garden In A Box", get the kids creating their own version of this garden craft today! Below is Lauren's finished project.


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MATERIALS FOR THIS GARDEN CRAFT

* printer * empty cardboard box (any size but preferably a deep one) * white masking tape (optional) * styrofoam blocks * pencil * permanent markers (any color of choice) * crayons or oil pastel colors * assorted construction papers * pattern paper or wrapping papers * scissors * white or liquid glue * beads & buttons * barbecue sticks or bamboo skewers * scotch tape * hot melt glue * glue gun

LEARNING IS MORE FUN WITH A SONG!

Below is a song that talks about a scenery in a flower garden where beautiful and colorful flowers are found and butterflies flutter around.

Flower Garden Song - Garden Song For Kids
Click Here To Watch The Video @ DAILYMOTION

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I'D LOVE TO HEAR FROM YOU!

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POST UPDATED: November 2025

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