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Milk Carton Vases for Mother’s Day

Create a beautiful vase of paper flowers in this unique craft project.

  • Grades: PreK–K, 1–2, 3–5

Your students will have fun creating this craft to give to their moms on Mother's Day!
 

What You Need

  • Milk carton
  • Construction paper
  • Scissors
  • Glue
  • Tissue paper
  • Stickers
  • Markers
  • Pencil
  • Pipe cleaner

 

What You Do

  1. Open the entire top of the milk carton and rinse the carton with warm water. Let the carton dry overnight.
  2. Cut a length of construction paper to wrap around the sides of the carton.
  3. Glue the construction paper to the milk carton.
  4. Decorate the vase by gluing on tissue-paper designs, adding stickers, or drawing with markers.
  5. To make the stem of a flower, apply glue to the sides of a pencil and carefully wrap the pencil with green tissue paper.
  6. Form the blossom of your flower from tissue paper.
  7. Use a pipe cleaner to attach your tissue-paper blossom to the pencil.
  8. Create as many stems and blossoms as desired.
  9. Place completed flower or flowers in the milk carton vase.

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