Give mom the gift of an everlasting bouquet of tulips with our 3D Tulip Flower Craft this Mother’s Day.
Using the scrape painting technique, kids’ will learn how to capture the beauty and color of real tulips within their craft; creating the perfect gift and keepsake for mom, grandma, auntie etc on Mother’s Day.
Our tulip flowers are super easy and fun to make. The craft benefits from a printable tulip template that can be colored in or cut out and traced onto colored card stock. This makes the craft easy to complete at home and transferable within a classroom setting.
As well as making beautiful 3D Tulips, for a well rounded art and craft experience, children may also benefit from following our step-by-step “how to draw a tulip bouquet” to learn how to also draw these pretty flowers.
How to Make the 3D Tulip Flower Craft for Mother’s Day
Materials
- White Card Stock for Printing
- Paper Straws
- Green Tissue Paper
- Paint
- Scrap Cardboard
- Scissors
- Glue Stick
Download the Printable Tulip Template
The tulip template is available to members of the Arty Crafty Kids club.
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Watch the Step-by-Step How to Make a 3D Flower Craft Video Tutorial:
Let’s Make 3D Tulips for Mother’s Day!
The Scrape Painting Technique
As the name suggests, it is the art of scaping paint across a canvas. Scrape painting is such a fun and effective technique for blending colors and creating cool textures.
All you need is paint, ideally acrylic paint and scraps of card/cardboard or an old bank card. Essentially the “scraper” needs to be sturdy with a flat edge. It needs to be easy for little hands to hold and manoeuvre, and strong enough to be scraped across a canvas – in this example, pieces of thick purple card stock.
Apply the Paint
Tulips come in an array of extraordinary colors and combinations, which means Arty Crafty Kids can really have fun with their color selections and explore complimentary colors.
To begin, select two or three colors and apply generous squirts of paint directly onto the card stock, ideally, just under the last tulip head of the row.
Begin Scrapping the Paint in One Direction
Position the scraper just behind the paint and in one motion, scrape the paint from the bottom to the top of tulip head.
Arty Crafty Kids may choose to scrape in a straight line OR they could try scraping with sweeping motions, first to the left and then again to right. This will help to create the impression of the petal layers.
Scrape the Paint in the Opposite Direction
If Arty Crafty Kids experiment with sweeping motions to complete their tulips; once the paint is scraped in one direction, try to gather the excess paint onto the scraper (shown in the video tutorial) and use this paint for the second scrape in the opposite direction.
Using the process of gathering excess paint, Arty Crafty Kids should be able to paint ALL the tulips with the paint that’s applied to the bottom of each row.
Cut out the Tulip Shapes
Once the paint has thoroughly dried, cut out all the tulip heads.
Fold the Tulip Heads in Half
Next, fold each tulip head in half.
Layer the Tulip Halves
To build the 3D element of the tulip craft, apply a generous amount of glue to one half (white side) of the tulip and place another half on top.
Align in tulips and repeat the process to add another tulip half.
Layer all the Tulip Halves
Once all the tulip pieces are connected, open the folds as shown above.
Flatten the Paper Straw Tip
Next, flatten the tip (approx 2-3 cm) of the paper straw.
Position the Straw within the Tulip Fold
Place the straw inside the fold and apply lots of glue to both tulip folds.
Secure the Remaining Tulip Folds
Pull to the remaining tulip folds round to join and gently push the straw into the center to the tulip.
Squeeze the two folds together.
Create a Tissue Paper Leaf
Cut out two leaf shapes from some green tissue paper.
Attach the Leaf to the Tulip’s Stem
Apply a little glue to the bottoms of the leaves and wrap them around the stem.
The 3D Tulip Flower Craft for Mother’s Day is Complete!
I hope your Arty Crafty Kids have enjoyed using the scrape painting technique to create their beautiful and unique tulips. If you happen to share their completed works of art on social media, please tag us to show off how they’ve colored and used their tulip bouquets!
