Mother’s Day Paper Towel Tulips

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(Mother’s Day) Paper towel flower tulips…
You’ll have fun with your toddlers making these easy colorful tulips. The perfect craft just in time for Mother’s Day! First, take a few sheets of paper towel and cut out some tulip shapes. Then get some washable markers or a little washable kids’ paint. Then take a plastic cottage cheese lid (or small plate) and put a few drops a water on it. Next let your toddler draw with the markers on the lid, moving the water drops around. Then give her a paper towel cutout of a tulip to clean up the colored water on the lid. The paper towel will absorb the water and the marker colors to create a fun colored tulip. (see photo below right) Let it dry and then glue to a card for that special mother in your life!

Supplies Needed-
– paper towels
– small plate or cottage cheese container lid
– washable markers, or washable kid’s paint

Tips/Suggestions-
– Let your toddler have fun with using the paper towel tulip to absorb all the water and marker colors. She can squeeze the water out and do it again!

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  1. Julie

    My 2.5 yr old loves this activity. I give her a small cup of water and a syringe (the kind that comes with infant tylenol), and she laboriously fills the syringe and sprays her own water on the cottage cheese lid. She loves all the steps, and I love the small-motor control she’s gaining! We did discover a fun switch the other day. She decided to write on the paper-towel tulips first, then syringe drops directly on the tulip, and we got to watch the ink spread. What fun! Thanks for sharing your ideas.

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