Mother's Day Craft

 For Story Hour this week we made a flower pot with some dessert cups and straws I picked up at Tuesday Morning, and I also made use of my Cricut to make the flowers and leaves for the kids to use on their project. If you don't have a Cricut it would be simple to make a flower template using free clip art from online. Since I'm working with a large group of young kids (most who are unable to handle a scissors as of yet), it just makes it easier for me and the moms.

I simply turned the dessert cups upside down and punched a hole in the center of the cup using a sharp tool. I printed up labels for the kids to apply to their flower pots.
It works best to glue the two sides of the flower together with the straw in the middle. You can cut the straw to the height you'd like. After the flower is glued the kids can add their thumb prints to the flower and then add the leaf and put the flower in the pot to dry. Adding candy to the top is optional. They can also color the top of the cup as shown below.