Before the summer ends here are some great flower crafts for tweens. These are fun and simple ideas you can do with your tween, or just supply the materials for an afternoon of summer fun.Either way you’ll be getting the last great bit of flower fun from the summer.
- Create homemade clothing sachets  – here’s a simple idea to make cheap sachets for your tween’s closet or even as special homemade gifts. Pick fragrant summer blooms and herbs like lavender. Strip the stems off the blooms and then set your flowers and herbs to dry in the sun. You can lay them on newspaper or on a mesh drying rack – make sure your weigh them down so they won’t fly away in a breeze After the flowers have dried , place them into a small, airy fabric sack and you have homemade potpourri sachets. If you want, you can buy mesh bags online or at craft stores.
- Make a fabric flower design – you and your tween can create a cool tee-shirt with this simple craft . Gather your favortie flowers to create your design Then take a wooden chopping block and cover with three layers of paper towel. Now take your shirt and place it on top of the chopping block and the paper towels. Place the flowers and herbs on the shirt in the desired design and then gently lay another piece of paper towel over it. Take a hammer and pound out the design so that the plants; colors transfer to the cloth . When this is competed , lift off the top layer of paper towel and the flowers and use a hot iron for about 60 seconds to set the colorful design on to the fabric .
- Create a flower memory book – you don’t need a flower press to create your own memory scrapbook of flowers. Consider collecting flowers from all the great summer hikes, walks and trips. Then press them and put them in a memory book , adding pictures and details about where they were found to create a wonderful scrapbook . To press flowers, follow these simple steps.
- Pick the flowers you want to press along with a piece of cardboard, some newspaper and white tissue paper
- lay the flowers on the cardboard and then layer on the tissue paper, the newspaper and another piece of cardboard.
- Weight heavy objects like books and bricks on top of the flowers and cardboard and leave for 2-4 weeks before removing
After the 2-4 weeks you should have pretty, dry flowers that will last as long as your memories.
These simple flower crafts for tweens will help you create some great memories and give you some fun projects for those long summer days.