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Craft Forever Flowers

Share a colorful gift

These flowers will never wilt and are an easy way to share a splash of color and cheer on a neighbor’s door or an elder's lunch table.



What you’ll need

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  • Tissue paper, cut into squares (or purchased as squares)

  • Pipe Cleaner

  • Pony Beads

Instructions

  • Select 3 - 6 pieces of tissue paper and arrange them on top of each other.

  • Slide a bead onto a pipe cleaner to about 1 inch from the top. Bend the top part of the pipe cleaner over and twist it so that the bead stays in place.

  • Poke the bottom end of the pipe cleaner through your layers of tissue paper and gently move the tissue papers up so that they are just below the bead.

  • Crumple the tissue paper around the bead, then gently open and arrange the “petals.”

  • Repeat until you have a total of 3 flowers. Line up the bottom ends of your flower “stems.” Slide a pony bead up to the top, so that the flowers stay held together.

  • Design a card with a kind image, message or a poem to deliver with a bouquet of Forever Flowers.

Reflection

  • What cheers you up?

  • How do you feel when someone does something nice for you — especially when it’s unexpected?

  • What are other ways you can show your appreciation to those who have made a difference in your life and the lives of others?

Resources

  • Jayden’s Impossible Garden by Mélina Mangal
    Jayden’s story highlights the beauty of intergenerational relationships and the power of perseverance in bringing a community garden to life.

  • Sidewalk Flowers by JonArno Lawson
    In this beautiful, wordless picture book, a little girl collects wildflowers while her distracted father pays her little attention. Each flower becomes a gift, and whether the gift is noticed or ignored, both giver and recipient are transformed by their encounter.

  • Plant a Kiss by Amy Krouse Rosenthal
    This book’s simple, rhyming text and lovely illustrations, celebrates how a small act of kindness can grow into something amazing.

Take it further

  • Make enough bouquets to fill the tables for your local nursing home.

  • Establish a May Day tradition of leaving baskets of flowers and other fun treats and kind cards on neighbors doorsteps.

  • Go beyond flowers! Create friendship bracelets, necklaces, rings, key chains or some original token of friendship to give out.

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