Sunflowers

To finish off our week about Kansas, we made sunflowers today.  All you need is coffee filters, yellow and brown markers, glue, and green construction paper.

 

First take 2 coffee filters for each child and cut it to look like a sunflower......I folded in half and then in half again and snipped out a few points.  When you open it, it will look like this.

Next have the children color the outside yellow and the inside brown (I showed them the circle from the coffee filter that they could use for an outline for the brown if they wanted to)......we looked at several pictures of sunflowers so they had an idea of what one looked like.

Note: we just left the coffee filters together to color and the markers bled through onto both.

Once they are all done coloring, glue the middle of the sunflowers together but offset one so you can see the petals from the back coffee filter.  If the yellow didn't soak through enough, the children can always color some more if they want to.

Then add a green construction paper stem and leaves and you are all finished!

 I love these......they just look so bright and cheery.....especially on a cold winter day!