Because the weather has been nice again this week we’ve been playing in the garden and haven’t done much in the way of crafty stuff, as they love playing in their cars and on their bikes, checking to see if they can see any strawberries growing yet and hunting for worms and caterpillars.
Whilst watching them playing, I noticed that the lawn was covered in dandelions. I known they’re weeds but they’re actually quite pretty, and the kids love picking them and presenting me with a bunch! This gave me an idea – we could use them as paintbrushes and stampers. We collected a selection of the biggest and prettiest looking ones and then sat on our wall. We chose three lovely spring colours and had a go at stamping the dandelion into the paint and then pressing it on to the paper.
The effects were really lovely, especially when you stamp different colours together. The kids absolutely loved it and did sheet after sheet of prints!
Have a go at using various flowers and see what effects they create!
Oh this looks fab! What a great idea 🙂 #weloveweekends
That’s a really original idea – great results!
this is a really good idea. never thought about painting with flowers and we have plenty of dandelions in our back garden
This looks so effective and I adore it.
Beautiful
I would never have thought of using flowers, great idea x
What a brilliant idea! It would never have occurred to me to do this! May have to pinch this idea for my two! Thanks!
That’s a great idea, I’ve never thought of that before
I would kids doing pictures like this so much fun .x
What a lovely idea – and if anyone needs dandelions I have hundreds growing here *shakes fist at the lawn*
This looks like a lot of fun 🙂 I have never thought of painting with flowers before. x
What a great idea! My eldest she’s 5, would love doing this!xx
What a great idea!
Love the end result, it would make a lovely fabric print!
What a great idea, must share this with my friend who runs a nursery xx
This is a great idea it’s much better than throwing them in the compost! x
What an amazing idea!!! i want to try this now with mine 🙂 x
What a lovely idea. We’ve loads in our garden. We will have to try
That’s a great idea and what lovely results 🙂
you’ve got my excited to do this with W! He loves dandelions and painting, win win! x
Never thought of doing that before – what a great idea!
This is very unusual idea but I love it!
I would never think of it…
This is such a fab idea 🙂 Will definitely be giving it a go with my girls x
Lovely idea 🙂 will have to try next spring
Looks great fun especially with the SUMMER holidays here
Love the dandelion painting, looks fun