Valentine/Spring Hand Flower

This is what my children had made for their Grandmother for Valentine's Day but it would also make for a nice Spring time craft.



Needed
Paper
Crayons, pencil crayons and/or markers
Scissors
Glue
Anything else you would like to add

Directions
I will discribe the way my kids and I made this but it can be made many different ways......

1. Take paper and trace out your child's hands. Depending on age the child can do this themselves. There are three kids in our family so we traced out both hand of each child once - making 6 hand traces.

2. Have children color their own hands that were traced. I had each child use one color for both the hands but different colors for each child.

3. After they are done coloring cut out each hand. Again, depending on age the child can do this themselves.

4. Glue hands together to make a flower. (see above picture)

5. draw out a stem with its leaves, color and cut

6. Glue flower to stem

7. Your flower is done unless you would like to add anything else to it. Seeing that my kids made this as a Valentine's gift they decided to use glitter glue to make a heart in the middle of it. (Red and Gold)

This is a fun family activity so enjoy and be creative!