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Kids Craft Idea: Drip Painted Paper Towel Flowers

This post is sponsored by Maxima.

This post has a little something for everyone – a simple process art idea for younger children and a fun craft for tweens or teens – that also makes a great gift. And it’s all thanks to a roll of paper towel!

Kids Craft Ideas: Drip Painted Paper Towel Flowers

My small girl is in love with dripping liquid watercolours! She loves watching the colours spatter and mix. In fact, she loves it so much that she completely covered a huge ‘canvas’ that I made by sewing together three long strips of paper towel. You heard me right, I stitched together paper towel! Maxima 4-ply paper towel to be precise. It’s super strong and perfect for kids’ craft projects – both the doing and the cleaning up!

Kids Craft Ideas: Drip Painted Paper Towel Flowers

Drip painting is so simple to do. All you need are pipettes or eye droppers (we used both but the pipettes work best because they hold more liquid) and liquid watercolours in your favourite colours. While little sister worked on our huge paper towel canvas (that now hangs proudly in the playroom), big sister drip painted a heap of single sheets of paper towel to use to make these gorgeous, oversized paper towel flowers.

Kids Craft Ideas: Drip Painted Paper Towel Flowers

How to Make Paper Towel Flowers

You will need:

  • Paper towel
  • Liquid watercolours
  • Pipettes or eye droppers
  • Scissors
  • Pipe cleaners
  • Hot glue gun (optional)

Colouring your flowers:

Before making your flowers you will need to colour them. You can try drip painting or just as easily tie dye or spray bottle paint your paper towel with liquid watercolours. Leave to dry thoroughly.

To make your flowers:
1. Stack three single sheets of paper towel one on top of each other.

2. Fold the stack of paper towels in half and then in half again.

3. Trim the paper towel into a petal shape (see below) being careful to keep the petals connected on the fold.

Kids Craft Ideas: Drip Painted Paper Towel Flowers

4. Unfold the paper towel sheets.

5. Re-stack the paper towel sheets so the petals are staggered.

6. Pick up the paper towel stack, pushing down in the centre of the flowers and pinching the layers together from underneath.

Kids Craft Ideas: Drip Painted Paper Towel Flowers

7. Twist a pipe cleaner tightly around the base of the flower to hold the layers of petals in place. Dab with a little hot glue to secure.

8. Separate and fluff the petals to form the flower.

Kids Craft Ideas: Drip Painted Paper Towel Flowers

My number one tip for managing the mess of art experiences with kids is to have your clean up ready before you even begin. I always have paper towel on hand when my girls are busy with art and craft projects as it’s handy for wiping down both messy hands and table surfaces, and the Maxima paper towel stays strong when used wet or dry, making it particularly perfect for arty messes.

Paper towel drip painting

Maxima Paper Towel is available across Australia at Woolworths. Find out more via the Maxima by Emporia Facebook page.

Christie Burnett is a teacher, presenter, writer and the mother of two. She created Childhood 101 as a place for teachers and parents to access engaging, high quality learning ideas.

Filed Under: Art, Bigger Kids Play, Featured Tagged With: tween craft ideas

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Read the comments or scroll down to add your own:

  1. kate says

    July 13, 2016 at 10:36 AM

    These turned out so cool! My kids are very keen to have a go!
    • Christie Burnett says

      July 13, 2016 at 4:12 PM

      We had lots of fun with this one!
  2. NouNouLiLi says

    July 14, 2016 at 4:56 PM

    ohhh very cute !!! I love it Merci pour ce partage !! Lili
    • Christie Burnett says

      July 18, 2016 at 7:36 PM

      Thank you so much for saying so :)
  3. Kate Lloyd says

    July 20, 2016 at 10:54 AM

    What a great idea and something we will try this afternoon. Looks like a great product too. I love that it's still strong even though it's wet!
  4. Kelly says

    July 20, 2016 at 11:55 AM

    Love the colours! So bright and vibrant
  5. Emily @ The Benson Street says

    July 23, 2016 at 3:00 AM

    This is such a cute idea for the kids. Thanks for sharing over at the Monday Funday Party. - Emily
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