Real Flower Craft Ideas

Real flower craft Ideas – Flowers, like many items found in nature, make an excellent FREE crafting material. Just look at all the creative fun you can have with real flowers!

Real flower craft ideas help me use all of the wonderful flowers that my daughter picks throughout the spring and summer months.

If your children are anything like mine, they bring home loads of flowers on their daily nature walks. Besides placing them in vases all over the house, I have had to find creative new ways to use flowers.

Below you will find an awesome collection of real flower nature craft ideas for kids, teens, and adults too!

Related: Top 10 Nature Crafts

The Best Real Flower Craft Ideas for Kids, Teens, and Adults

We have placed this fun collection of flower nature crafts into categories to make it easier to navigate all of the fun real flower craft ideas that we found.

Tutorials for each flower craft can be found by clicking on the name of the blog that created it.

You may also like the Nature Arts and Crafts Printable Activity Pack. A fun collection of printable nature crafts and activities that make creating with natural materials (including flowers) easy!

Flower Crown DIY Tutorials

Nature Craft Printables: Masks Tiaras, Crowns, and MORE!
Children’s Flower Crown | Willowday *
Daisy Chain Crown | Be A Fun Mom
Flower Crown DIY | Pro Flowers (video tutorial below)

Flower Art Projects

There are so many fun ways to create art using real flowers. Some of our favorite flower art projects for kids can be found below.

Disney Princess Dress Ups | Mother Natured
Rainbow Flowers 3-D Art | Hello Wonderful
Nature Weaving | Craftiments
Flower Garden Windows | The Crafty Crow
Sticky Garden Sensory Art | Fantastic Fun and Learning
Nature Craft Collage | Kids Activities Blog
Flower Printing | Learning 4 Kids
Nature Art and Sensory Play | Edventures with Kids

Flower Faces and Portraits

Making flower faces and portraits is a fun and easy flower craft for kids. Children love to make faces using real flowers and other natural items as art materials. Check out the fun flower nature portrait ideas below.

Nature Craft Collage | Mother Nurtured
Fun Nature Faces | Happy Hooligans
Gorgeous Nature Portraits | Adventure in A Box

Flower Crafts and DIY Home Decor

Some of the flower nature crafts below would make excellent gift ideas for Mother’s Day.

Flower Petal Candle Holders | Adventure in a Box
Pressed Flower Bookmarks | DIY Adulation
Bookmark Craft for Kids Using Pressed Flowers and Leaves | Buggy and Buddy
Pressed Flower Mobile | Twig and Toadstool
DIY Flower Garland & Hanging Flower Garlands | Soul Makes
Colorful Pressed Flower Clay Tile Pendants | Daily Art Inspiration
Pressed Flowers in Clay | Art Camp

Flower Mandalas

Some flowers are natural mandalas, but all flowers can be used to make a flower mandala. A few more flower craft mandala ideas can be found in “flower suncatcher crafts” in the section below.

Nature Mandala | Nurturestore
Flower Mandalas Nature Art | In the Playroom
Nature Mandala Outdoor Art | Learning and Exploring Through Play

Flower Suncatcher Crafts

Have a look at this fun flower craft round-up that shares 10 of our favorite flower suncatcher crafts. Another fun suncatcher craft that babies and toddlers love is a sensory bag suncatcher made with real flowers. Find the directions for this flower craft over on HOAWG.

The projects listed below are featured in the photo collage below.

Nature Suncatcher Wind Chimes | Hands On As We Grow
Contact Paper Suncatcher in a Wood Frame | The Artful Parent
Flower Petal Stained Glass Door| The Artful Parent
Mandala Suncatchers | Twig and Toadstool

Crafty Flower Activities for Kids that use Real Flowers

Nature Threading | Munchkins and Moms
Butterfly Finger Puppet | While Wearing Heels
Petal Potions for Kids | Mother Nurtured

Flower Suncatchers & Sensory Bottles

Nature Sensory Bag Suncatcher | Hands On As We Grow
For more ideas check out Nature-Inspired Sensory Bottles.

Flower Craft Ideas That Use Natural Materials

For a fun twist on flower nature crafts, use natural items to create flowers! A few gorgeous examples can be found below:

Flower Stones Nature Craft | The Craft Train
Easy Shell Daisy
Shell Sunflower
Pinecone Rose Bouquet| Creative Green Living
Homemade Pinecone Rose Card (photo below)

Real Flower Craft Ideas for Kids & Adults

Take advantage of nature’s most beautiful FREE craft supply with these easy real flower nature crafts for kids. Another fun idea is to press flowers into a nature journal or notebook.

You may also like the Nature Arts and Crafts Printable Activity Pack. A fun collection of printable nature crafts and activities that make creating with natural materials (including flowers) easy!

Make sure to pop over to have a look at our spring bucket list and summer bucket list for even more crafts and activities for kids.

More Flower Craft Ideas and Art Projects for Kids

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