Easy and fun to make! Sunflower craft ideas
How about incorporating sunflowers—blooming energetically toward the sun in the hot summer—into your crafts? In this feature, we’ll share creative sunflower project ideas.
You’ll find plenty of ideas, from origami to using everyday materials like paper cups and paper plates, as well as techniques that let kids enjoy interesting textures, such as stamping and finger painting.
By adapting the steps, these projects can be used with children from infants to kindergarteners.
Be sure to include this in your summer childcare activities and have everyone make adorable, energetic sunflowers together! Because we focus on ideas that emphasize children’s free expression in their creations, we use the term “seisaku” (制作, production/creation) rather than “seisaku” (製作, making/manufacturing) in the text.
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Easy and fun to make! Sunflower craft ideas (11–20)
Paper cup sunflower
Here’s an idea for making a three-dimensional sunflower using a common material: a paper cup.
Cut off the rim of the paper cup, then wrap double-sided tape around the bottom part.
Use the double-sided tape as a guide to cut the cup into 16 equal sections.
Peel off the tape and attach each strip by rolling it inward one by one.
Add color with pens or crayons, and the sunflower’s blossom is complete! For the finishing touch, make the stem and leaves out of origami paper to create an even more realistic summer scene.
Some steps can be tricky for children to do alone, so it’s best to enjoy making it together with a teacher or guardian.
A three-dimensional sunflower with distant strings
This is a three-dimensional sunflower craft that uses lacing—perfect for children’s fine motor play.
It’s also great for summer crafts or wall decorations, so try making it together as a parent–child activity! Cut thick paper and colored construction paper into circles and glue them together, then use a hole punch to make holes around the edge.
Next, thread your choice of ribbon or yarn through the holes to create patterns.
To finish, make loops from strips of construction paper and origami paper and attach them to the back to complete the flower.
The sunflower alone looks vibrant, but if you’re making a wall decoration, you can also arrange leaves and a stem!
A sunflower made with a paper plate, origami, and tissues
Let’s use everyday materials to make cute, summery sunflowers! This project is full of ideas that kids and adults alike can enjoy.
Tear origami paper by hand and glue the pieces around the rim of a paper plate.
Next, cut a circle out of construction paper, draw the sunflower’s center pattern with crayons, paint over it, and before it dries, lay a tissue over the top to make a rubbing/transfer.
Besides tissue, you could also use Japanese calligraphy paper or floral tissue.
Cut it into a circle and glue it to the center of the paper plate, and you’re done! For the step where you tear the origami petals, you can also have children use scissors depending on their age.
Sunflowers drawn with fingertips
Here’s a sunflower art idea that even 0-year-olds can enjoy using their fingertips! Place blobs of paint on white drawing paper in the shape of a sunflower and add a small amount of water.
Next, put the paper inside a storage bag.
By spreading the paint from the outside of the bag, children can enjoy a sensory play experience without getting their hands dirty! They’ll love the squishy feel and watching the colors blend, making it easy to introduce even in infant classes.
To finish, take the paper out of the bag, let it dry, and add a frame made from black construction paper.
With the frame, each child’s unique creation becomes a delightful piece of art.
Cute sunflower
Let’s make a sunflower in origami that blooms toward the summer sun.
Glue yellow and orange origami paper together so that both colored sides are visible.
Make firm creases as you fold.
When you open and fold the paper toward the center, do it gently and carefully.
Fold each corner inward, then align the folded sections to the center and fold the left and right sides.
Open the folded sections, fold the top upward, then tuck the corners inside to shape the sunflower’s petals and finish the flower.
To make the center, fold a piece of brown origami paper in half into a triangle twice, then fold the corners toward the center.
Insert the brown piece into the middle of the sunflower, and you’re done.
Please give it a try!
sunflower
Let’s make a sunflower—one of the iconic flowers of summer—using origami.
Prepare one sheet of origami paper.
Fold the paper in half into a square twice to make crease lines.
Once you have the creases, fold each corner toward the center.
Continue folding the paper in sequence from the outside toward the inside.
Finally, draw a pattern in the center of the sunflower with a felt-tip pen to finish.
It might be cute to make many of them and arrange them like a sunflower field.
Let’s brighten up the room with sunflowers!
In conclusion
We introduced many sunflower craft ideas perfect for summer.
There were lots of fun projects that use a variety of materials and techniques, letting kids create with excitement.
Before you begin, make sure to confirm in advance what the teacher will prepare and what the children will work on, according to their ages and developmental stages.
It’s also recommended to observe real sunflowers before starting, as this makes it easier for children to form vivid images.
If you display everyone’s work in the classroom to create a dynamic sunflower field, it will help you get through the hot summer with energy!