Nursery/Childcare: Creative Ideas for Making Rape Blossoms (Nanohana) Crafts
The bright, vivid yellow of rapeseed blossoms instantly makes spring scenes feel cheerful and festive, doesn’t it?
How about incorporating these springtime blossoms into kids’ craft projects?
Here are some ideas for rapeseed flower crafts.
We’ve gathered a variety of ideas—like wall decorations such as wreaths and mobiles, and cards where you can write a message and send it—so try making them together with the children.
It’s also great to actually observe rapeseed flowers, touch them, and notice their scent; it really helps expand the children’s creative ideas!
Decorating a room with the flowers everyone made and turning it into a flower field would be lovely, too!
Enjoy crafting to the fullest with these spring-only ideas!
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[Childcare] Rapeseed blossom craft ideas (1–10)
Flower with leaves made from masking tape and finger stamps
This is an activity to make rapeseed flowers using masking tape and finger stamps! First, stick masking tape onto the backing paper.
If it’s hard to visualize rapeseed flowers, show a photo or drawing, or offer prompts like, “Let’s use long pieces of tape for the stems and slightly shorter pieces for the leaves,” as you go.
After sticking the masking tape, put some paint on fingertips and stamp it on.
The tiny stamps made by children’s little fingers are perfect for creating a cute image of rapeseed flowers! The lovely results are sure to make the children feel proud and satisfied.
Rapeseed flowers with yellow round stickers
This is an art activity making rapeseed blossoms using yellow round stickers.
Draw the leaves and stem on the backing paper beforehand, then use them as a guide to place the stickers.
Peeling stickers off the sheet requires fine finger movements and concentration.
Since nearby stickers can easily come off together, if it seems difficult, it might help to prepare a separate sheet and place the stickers spaced out in advance.
Once a child gets hooked on the fun of peeling stickers, they may start sticking them all over the place.
It could be the start of some busy days for the teachers!
Canola flowers made with handprints
Children’s tiny handprints transform into a field of blooming rapeseed flowers! Prepare a background sheet in a color that makes the yellow blossoms pop, and stamp on the handprints one after another.
You could also cut out handprints made on a separate sheet of paper and paste them on.
Once the paint dries, use paint on your fingers or crayons to draw in the leaves and stems.
Pairing the scene with spring motifs like butterflies or cherry blossoms makes it even more vibrant.
If you prepare a large sheet of paper, everyone can enjoy making handprint stamps together at once!
[Childcare] Rapeseed Blossom Craft Ideas (11–20)
Origami rapeseed blossoms
This is an easy origami nanohana (rapeseed blossoms) that’s great even for kids who are just starting to try origami.
Fold the paper in half, then fold the top layer back down to align with the bottom crease.
With it in that state, fold it in half like a book, and you’ll have a cute piece where the square pattern echoes the tiny flowers of nanohana! Attach it to a backing sheet along with leaves and a stem.
Try different variations—use origami in different colors, or cut a sheet into quarters to make smaller flowers—and enjoy experimenting.
Rapeseed blossoms in watercolor
Let’s try painting rapeseed flowers with watercolors! It can be quite difficult to paint directly onto a blank sheet of drawing paper, and even if there’s a sketch, tracing it or coloring without going over the lines can be a tough task for children.
That’s why I recommend using a template made by cutting out a milk carton! If you cut out the shape of a flower, you can place it on the paper and simply paint over it to neatly transfer the shape of the rapeseed blossoms.
After that, just add green leaves with finger stamps or a brush, and it’s done!
Three-dimensional rapeseed flowers
This is a project for making rapeseed blossoms with charming, pinched 3D texture.
Take a small square of origami, fold it in half twice, cut off the corners, and open it up.
Pinch the center to create creases, and you’ll have a three-dimensional flower piece.
Apply glue to a rectangular piece of green construction paper, attach the flower piece in the center, and assemble it into a triangular prism to complete the rapeseed blossom! Make the stem and leaves three-dimensional as well, then glue everything onto a backing sheet to display.
Kids will enjoy the gluing and the fun step of pinching the paper tightly with their fingertips.
Canola flowers you can decorate with shrink plastic
This is a canola flower craft you can display by propping it up, made with plastic board and origami paper! Stack pieces of origami paper folded into triangles twice and staple them in the center.
Cut off both ends, open them up, and shape them to create the canola flower parts.
For the leaf parts, simply fold around the edges of small cut pieces of origami to resemble leaf shapes.
Attach each part to the plastic board with double-sided tape, and it’s complete.
You’ll end up with a wonderful piece that really shows individuality in the placement of the leaves and flowers!