Making Sponge Flowers

As flowers bloom in the spring rain, Sponge Flowers are one of the most fitting spring activities for kids to make in celebration. As you can see from this Flower Counting activity and these Coffee Filter Flowers we made, my girls love flowers.

This simple craft was perfect for them and it will be great for anybody looking to get in the spring mood!

Making Sponge Flowers - use paint and a common household object to create pretty flower paintings.

Supplies:

Paint
Scrubbing sponges
Paper
Green marker
Paper plate

I found the scrubbing sponges at Target where they have the dollar items. I am pretty sure you can find them at the dollar store too.

I drew some stems with a green marker on some art paper. This is about the extent of my artistic ability, drawing stems on paper.

I used some thicker coated paper plates as paint palettes. I squirted some paint colors onto a plate. We went with red, yellow and orange since that seemed very spring-y.

Give your child the stem paper, a scrubbing sponge and the paint and let them explore.

Even my youngest, "C", was able to get the flowers right on the stems. At least at the beginning...

She eventually decided that this looked better.

When the kids were done making flowers, I gave them some paper and just let them create whatever they wanted.

I love to paint with different objects and these sponges were a big hit. The kids even liked playing with them when they were clean and dry. If you see something around the house or in a store that you think might be fun to paint with, give it a try. I bet you will love the results.

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