Monday, July 11, 2011

Pastel coloured egg cup wreath

O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind?  
~Percy Bysshe Shelley



We have been playing around with 'colour families' and are currently having fun with pastels!! Think marshmallows, cotton wool, babies and spring, and you'll get the general idea!

Spring is still a few months away and the dismal greyness and wetness of a Cape Town winter sometimes threatens this Joyful Mama's joy in a serious way...so we decided to create our own spring time cheer in anticipation of what's to come! The result: a merry little wreath made of painted egg cup flowers! (I got the inspiration for this wreath here).

We started by cutting loose the cups from some empty egg cartons...and then turned each little cup into a 'flower' by slitting the sides and pushing them open to form petals.


Next, we painted our flowers in pretty pastel colours,


...and painted a cardboard ring light green.


Then we glued pom-poms for the flowers' centers...


and stuck all the flowers onto our cardboard ring.


Spring is nature's way of saying, "Let's party!"  ~Robin Williams



If you've never been thrilled to the very edges of your soul by a flower in spring bloom, maybe your soul has never been in bloom.  ~Terri Guillemets

The day the Lord created hope was probably the same day he created Spring.  ~Bern Williams


Linking this to ABC and 123's Show & Tell

1 comment:

  1. I LOVE your wreath. I'm going to try this in my classroom in the spring. It's hard to find things that don't cost a lot but make such pretty final products! Thanks so much!
    http://pattiesclassroom.blogspot.com

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