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Who doesn’t love getting roses on Valentine’s day? I just love getting flowers, but am sad that they never seem to last very long. Some of my roses had started to wilt and fall off the petals.  I came up with an easy way for Preserving Valentine’s Flowers. For more ways to preserve flowers check out Pressing Flowers with Kids.
 Preserving Valentine's flowers so that you can enjoy them longer. This is a great project to do with kids.
Hubby challenged me to come up with a kids activity using the rose petals. Like I need him giving me more work! But a challenge is a challenge, so I pulled the rose petals off the stem and came up with a petal sun catcher type of thing.

Supplies you will need:

 

Cut off a piece of wax paper and give it to your child along with some rose petals. Older kids can make a design or their initials, but my little ones just arranged the rose petals on the wax paper.

 

 
This is how A’s looked when she was done arranging the petals. The next part was a little tricky. I had to move this over to a towel where I would be doing the ironing. Just keep it steady and you’ll be fine.

Lay your petal covered wax paper on a thin towel and place another piece of wax paper over it, creating a wax paper sandwich.

Before you iron, place another thin towel OVER the wax paper sandwich. The photo I took of this step had a big shadow, but please remember to place another towel before ironing. Now you will use the hot iron to seal the wax paper. I found that I needed to hold the iron over various places for 10 seconds or so for the paper to seal. This time might vary depending on your iron. Lift your towel to check your progress. When the paper is sealed you will notice that you are able to see the roses more clearly. If you do not yet, return the towel and just keeping iron until you can see the flowers better. Here is how ours looked after ironing.

Then hang in the window and enjoy! I think this would work well with any kind of flower petals. I can’t wait to experiment some more. I am sure they won’t last forever but we will enjoy our roses for a little while longer thanks to this preserving Valentine’s flowers technique.

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If you liked preserving Valentine’s Day Flowers, here are some more flower activities you’ll like:
Popsicle Stick Flowers 
Coffee Filter Flowers Made From Tissue Paper

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  3. I used to do that all the time with pretty fall leaves when I was a little girl. Love that it works with flower petals too! I'll definitely have to try that with my littles!

    So happy to have found your blog. Awesome ideas here! 🙂

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  7. I love this! Really simple and fun project – thanks for following me, I'm going to start following you as well so I don't miss anymore good ideas like this.

    Also, I would like to invite you to share this or any other project on my "Get Inspired Monday Blog Party" next Monday. My fav projects will be featured on my blog, my business facebook and personal facebook pages.

    -Pamela, InspiredbyFelicity.blogspot.com

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  18. Fun challenge! Sweet hubby for getting the roses! I have droopy roses right now and I just don't want to throw them out! I think mine are past preserving unfortunately! Thanks for sharing at the Rock ‘N Share!

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  21. Great activity! I'm challenging myself to re-use my Valentine's flowers this year too! Would you mind if I used this idea in a round-up of activities on my blog? I will link back to you and give you credit of course! You can visit the post here: http://munchkins-and-moms.blogspot.com/ Thank you!
    Also- forgive me for not asking through an e-mail, for some reason your contact information won't pop-up on my computer 🙁

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