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How to Paint Fake Flowers
Not all of us can keep real flowers in our homes, but we all love having flowers around to lend a splash of color. This tutorial for How to Paint Fake Flowers will give you vibrant maintenance-free flowers that stay perfect year-round. Painting fake flowers is quick and easy, so you’ll have a bouquet of colorful flowers in no time. The tutorial will teach you how to make the flowers look more life-like. Extra creative crafters can use multiple colors of paint or even make their own designs to create flowers that are truly individual and unique. This DIY painting idea is a great, no-fuss solution for crafters who want to create their own home decor on a budget.
Time to Complete Under an hour
Primary Technique Painting
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Does this mean I can change the colors of my fake flowers at home, all the time? That’s great! It’s like buying new ones.
I always wondered how you could paint the flowers. What I love is that you can switch the color out with any you want. I can see changing the colors each season or holiday. It is a much cheaper way to do home decor than buying new all the time. I love Ashleroo’s comment about being a bride on a budget. This is a neat idea. We used a variety of homemade items for our wedding and had everything we wanted for $800 including my dress that was supposed to cost that much alone.
As a bride-to-be that is on a really tight budget, I think that this tutorial would be very useful! I’ve been looking for ways to have some fake flowers mixed in to the decorations so that I can save some money. This tutorial is going to be so handy, because I can actually customize the colours of my flowers now! I’m really excited to give this a go.
What a great and easy idea. I have gone nuts running all over town for a certain color of flowers. I could have stopped at the discount store and gotten the color I wanted and be done by the time it took me to go to the first store. Thank you for sharing this.
What a great idea to paint fake flowers instead of running all over to find the color you want like I have been doing. I found the flowers just wrong color and did not have them in color I wanted. I have hand painted boutonnieres about 6 years ago because we could not find the teal. Took a long time we used acrylic paint. Turned out nice but too long. Love this tutorial. Never would have thought to just use spray paint. Great and quick. Anyone doing this for the holidays?
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Painting with Artificial Flowers
Artificial flowers are fun to use in a painting activity with toddlers. Use these pretty flowers as paint tools to provide fine motor and creative play. Welcome summer with beautiful flower paintings made with artificial flowers.
A painting activity with toddlers is a great way to support early learning skills such as fine motor and creative.
Kids will love the bright colors of the paint and flowers.
Set out the materials and let your toddler engage in his or her own way. Don’t be surprised if finger painting is part of the process!
We always like to match our activities to a book and for this one I recommend Planting a Rainbow (available HERE on Amazon)
Artificial flowers (you can always use real ones just before you throw them away too).
Flowers can be found in a crafts store or stores like Dollar Tree Separate individual flowers from a main stem, leaving enough stem on each flower for your child to grasp like a handle.
Pour paint colors into foam trays or jar lids.
Guide your child with the motion of dipping a flower into paint and spreading paint on paper.
- Swish a flower back and forth.
- Press a flower onto the paper like a paint stamp.
- Dip a stem of leaves, like the gold one in the image, into green paint and roll it over the paper to create a stem and leaves for a flower painting.
The different ways to grip and move the flowers around the paper engage developing hand and finger muscles.
Kids might see pictures emerge, such as flowers or a rainbow, or they will just have fun making patterns and designs on the paper.
Since this is a child-led activity, there is no end result that is expected. This process art activity supports the experience and not the outcome and includes: identifying and naming colors; using language to talk about the activity; making hand and finger movements that engage small motor skills.
This a simple activity to set up but one that kids will love. The activity prompts use of early learning in a number of ways as kids explore the materials.
This is a fun activity to welcome spring and summer with toddlers who love to paint!
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About the Author
Heather is a former preschool teacher and founder of preschooltoolkit.com, a website providing early learning resources for teachers and parents. She focuses on creating fun crafts and activities that engage developmental skills while promoting hands-on learning through play. Follow her on Facebook, Pinterest, Twitter, Instagram
