Kid's Craft: Coffee Filter Flowers for Mom

Happy one-day-early Mother's Day! In case you missed it, I shared these sweet flowers over at The Train to Crazy. If you've never been there, go check her lovely blog out!

Since mother's day is coming up super-duper soon, these flowers would be a great quick and easy craft for little ones (I did mine with a three-year-old) to make for their moms or grandmas.
Let's get started...

Supplies:
Coffee filters
Pipe cleaners/chenille stems
Washable markers (must be washable for the tie-dye look)
Spray bottle full of water
Newspaper
Beads (optional)

Step 1: Color a design on your coffee filter. I found it works best if you add lots of ink to each part.
Step 2: Put it on top of newspaper, and spray it with water. The more you spray, the more the colors will mix.
Step 3: Lay outside to dry.
Step 4: Layer them (totally optional) and pierce the center with a pipe cleaner. Fold down the bit that is poking through so it won't slide off. (If you bead the stem, fold the end over the same way too.)
Fluff the flowers as much as you please!

Enjoy your flowers or give a bouquet to Grandma! xoxo Kate
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Guest Post {A Baker's House}

Happy Sunday!

Today we have a {lovely} guest post from Holly @ A Baker's House.

Enjoy the yummy goodness! 

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A beautiful bunch of cupcake roses!

I couldn't be happier to share this sweet bouquet of cupcake roses with you today. Thanks so much to Kate for the opportunity! I hope you'll enjoy making this as much as I did. I orignally saw the idea for a cupcake bouquet on Pinterest and knew I had to try it myself.

Supplies:

Mini cupcakes

Icing

Flower pot or other container

Popsicle sticks

Syrofoam base

Green tissue paper

Step 1: Bake your cupcakes and allow to cool. Poke a small hole in the base of the cupcake
with a toothpick. This is similar to pre-drilling a hole in wood. Making the small hole with
the toothpick first allows the popsicle stick to go into the cupcake with less effort.

Step 2: Put the popsicle sticks into the cupcakes. If the cupcakes seem to fall off the sticks,
just melt some chocolate and dip the sticks into the chocolate first before putting them into the cupcakes.

I didn't have that trouble with these mini cupcakes but regular-sized cupcakes might need the extra step.

Step 3: Insert your styrofoam into the base of the container. You'll need a snug fit so press it in tightly
or use some floral tape (or glue) to secure the base to the container.I added some green tissue paper
fringed to look like grass. Other options are things like parsley or Easter basket grass.

Step 4: This is the only tricky part to this process and it isn't hard to master at all! Go on, try it!
Using a star shaped icing tip, start in the middle of the cupcake.

Step 5: Continue to swirl the icing around in a circle all the way out to the edge of the cupcake.
Look how easy that was-- it's a rose!

Step 6: Keep making roses until your cupcake bouquet is full and beautiful. I used a dozen mini cupcakes in this bouquet.

Wouldn't these be sweet on a dessert table at a baby shower or wedding shower?

Or make them for Mom for Mother's Day? 

Use different colors and themes throughout the year and this will become

a favorite way for you to enjoy eating (and looking at!) cupcakes.

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These are beautiful, Holly!
Don't forget to visit her and say hi! (Or check out these delish Oatmeal Fudge Bars by Holly!)
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