Flower Crowns

On a recent trip to the park, after my 3 year old was plum tuckered out we noticed along the side of the park a huge blanket of amazing and vibrantly colored wild flowers. As much I appreciate the well chosen beautiful garden flowers that I see inside those white picket fences around town, there is something about wildflowers, daisies in particular, that just make me glow from the inside. So I wasn’t too surprised when my daughter was equally as thrilled and set about picking them one by one. By the time she was through, she had a huge handful and said to me in a saddened tone, “But mommy, what are we to do with them now?” Her sweet innocence was just too much for my heart to handle; and that’s when it hit me … “Let’s make flower crowns!” I shouted with glee. Ahem, I mean flower “tiaras”, as my littlest one corrected me with. For all of you who are drawing a blank on just how to create the timeless piece here you go:

 1) Grab long-stemmed (almost weed-like to be honest) wild flowers and slice a one inch slit in the upper portion of its stem. You can use your car key, a fine tip pen or a long fingernail if you are out and about. Make this slit in about 10 or so flowers.

 2) Put the stem of one flower through the slit opening in another and continue to do this for about 20 or so flowers. Be sure to pull the flower through the slit enough that the crowns of the flowers meet each other.

 3) Once your strand seems long enough to create a circle wide enough to fit on your little one’s head, you are done. Tuck the end of the final flowers stem into the beginning of the first flowers slit and place tiara on head.

Grab your girls’ hands and start spinning around in circles ‘til you both get so dizzy you fall to the ground filled with laughter.

Suburban Share: Anyone have a craft to share that we can make with wild flowers?  

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