Showing posts with label sunflowers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sunflowers. Show all posts

Wednesday, September 09, 2009

September Sunflowers

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

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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:

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

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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:

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

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