September Sunflowers

Inspired by these books, the Super Stars used blue, yellow and brown construction paper to make our September sunflowers:



The brown circles were die-cut, but the sunflowers' petals were cut from 2 inch by 4 inch rectangles that the Stars then cut the corners off of:



Centering the brown circle, the Stars tucked the petals behind while arranging them:





The Stars then colored black "seeds" onto the brown circle, and dotted the seeds with white paint (a wand of White Out works well; and remember you can always glue real sunflower seeds to the brown circle). Then I cut stems and leaves and arranged the sunny art on our hallway bulletin boards:



("Ss is for the Super Stars' September Sunflowers")



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