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 (11–20)
Various kinds of rapeseed flowers
Rape blossoms are cute with their small yellow flowers.
How about incorporating them into your crafts in various ways? Prepare fluffy yellow construction paper shaped like the whole flower, and try different techniques for the little blossoms: stamp them with a stamper, use finger stamping, apply round stickers, make torn-paper collages, or crumple tissue paper and glue it on—there are many ways to express the look.
Crumpled tissue paper adds a three-dimensional feel, and with finger stamping you can try using various warm colors, too.
They’re perfect for wall decorations.
Puchi-puchi butterfly
When spring comes, don’t you find butterflies more often even in the kindergarten yard? Let’s make butterflies that herald spring using bubble wrap as cushioning material! We’ll use bubble wrap to create the butterfly wings.
Cut the bubble wrap into a rectangle and draw butterfly patterns on it with a permanent marker.
It’s easier to draw on the flat back side rather than the bumpy side.
Pinch and tightly tie the center with a chenille stem (pipe cleaner), then make the butterfly’s body and face with colored construction paper and stick them on to finish.
Try making the antennae with a chenille stem as well.
In conclusion
How did you like the ideas for making canola flowers? There were plenty of ideas, like crafting the yellow blossoms with origami, using finger stamps, or expressing them with stickers.
Find an approach that suits your child’s developmental stage, and enjoy creating them while feeling the spring season.