Paper Flower Bouquet - With Free Template | MapleSeeds Home Blog

I was feeling crafty today and blog-it-y too, hence this pretty post with the colorful flowers! Cleaning my craft room always leads to things like this! I found some old flower stems leftover from another project AND some old watercolor/salt paintings that my kids did years ago! I hate to throw things like that away, but really who has room to keep every scrap of art your kids make? SOOO I decided to make them into some paper flowers!

SUPPLIES:
Flower stems, or floral wire or pipe cleaners
Hot glue/ Glue gun
Colored paper, or old artwork (preferably on stiff paper)
Paper Fasteners
Template (Below)

TEMPLATES: Right click and save to computer!
Print at 100%

 Print off the templates (I printed them on some scrap card stock that had other stuff printed on the backside). Cut out, trace each flower (3 different sizes each) on your artwork and cut out.

I printed the yellow centers on some card stock that I wanted to use for  the center color.

Once all the pieces are but out, lunch a small hole in the center of each piece and push a paper fastener through all the pieces. 

Bend the pieces towards the center of the flower to give it some movement. Then hot glue the paper fastener to the end of the flower stem and voila!!

Leave me a comment link if you make something using my paper flower template! 

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Summer Reading List | Books that are Movies! | MapleSeeds Home Blog

I'm really trying hard to have some activities organized for my kids before summer starts. I'm not one of those people who believes they need structure all day every day, but with how much they squabbled last summer, I want to be prepared this summer! Last summer we read through The Chronicles of Narnia books, well at least the ones that had a movie that went a long with them. My oldest son is a reluctant reader, so attaching a movie to the book was something he thought was totally cool. So this summer I am creating a reading list of books that have been made into movies! I'm going to aim for 10 books, but there is a good chance we won't get through them all, but this can always carry over to next summer as well. My son will be heading into third grade this fall, so the books are for ages 7-12, some are classics, some are adventures some are fantasy themed. I will be reading the book aloud to all the kids. 

I browsed around on PINTEREST, and the WEB for some ideas of books that were movies and made a list of about 20 books, here is what I have narrowed it down to for this summer's list:

• OLD YELLER (Fred Gipson)    (book)    (movie)
• SWISS FAMILY ROBINSON (Johann D. Wyss)  (book)    (movie)
• WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE (Maurice Sendak)    (book)  
• WHITE FANG (Jack London)   (book)   
• THE NEVER ENDING STORY (Michael Ende) (book) (movie) 
• THE WIZARD OF OZ  (Franks Baum) (book)  (movie)  I'd love to take the kids to see the new animated OZ movie as well. 
• TREASURE ISLAND (Robert Louis Stevenson) this version is abridged (book) (movie)
• THE SECRET GARDEN (Frances Hodgson Burnett) (book)   (movie) 
• MARY POPPINS (Dr. P.L. Travers)  (book)  (movie) 
• THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAYWER (Mark Twain)  (book)   (movie) 

Most of the books I plan on buying, but the movies I will rent or borrow from our local library. 

Here are some other books that we have already read and watched:

The Chronicles of Narnia

Where the Red Fern Grows

Charlotte's Web

I also have younger boys and I may do a few books for them that are cartoon movies:

• The Jungle Book
• The Iron Man (The Iron Giant)
• Dumbo the Flying Elephant
• Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 

I'd love to hear your suggestions for reading books that are movies! 

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