First Grade Fun
Spring is in the air… so I had my first grade students make daffodils!
How to Make Egg Carton Daffodils
- You will need 6 cardboard egg cartons, 26 tongue depressors/jumbo craft sticks, 26 yellow or white flower petal cutouts (you can do by hand or use the Ellison die cut), glue, and green markers.
- Ask your parents to donate empty cardboard egg cartons. Each 12 pack egg carton will make 5 cups (I used the pointer cup versus the cups the eggs sit in…it makes a better cup in the daffodil). For a class of 26 students I needed 6 egg cartons (leaving me with a few left over, just in case).
- Adults should cut the egg cartons. My husband and I sat watching television while we cut each cup out. It was not an easy task due to the dull scissors! But well worth it!
- BEFORE doing this art activity, make sure your students know what daffodils look like. I showed my class images via Google.com plus I read a story about daffodils. Here are a few books that you could read:
- Give the students yellow and orange tempera paint. They need to paint the inside and outside of the cup. I encouraged them to paint the center of the cup one color (to look like pollen) then paint the remainder the other color.
- While the cup is drying, the students can use green markers to color one side of the tongue depressor (they can color both sides if you really want them too, but it is not necessary).
- Next they will glue on the flower cutout to the end of their tongue depressor.
- When the cup is dry, you may need to clip a portion of the end so it will glue flat onto the flower cutout. I told the kids to use a lot of glue and hold the cup for 30 seconds. (In my class we don’t use a lot of glue, so this was a treat for them. How funny that using more makes things that much MORE FUN!)
- The daffodils had to dry over night.
The daffodils turned out PERFECT! My students were so proud of themselves…and I was very proud of them too!