An Easter Daisy Craft

Easter Daisy

1. Take a sheet of pink and a sheet of cream colored construction paper.

• Put them together and fold lengthwise.

2. Cut into one inch wide strips.

3. Cut along the fold lines to create four piles of strips each containing four strips.

4. Cut off the corners making each pile into long ovals for the petals of the daisy.

Just arrange the petals on the paper first. Don't glue yet.

5. Make a plus sign in the middle of a sheet of purple construction paper with four of the pink petals.

6. Take two cream color petals and fan them out like a hand of cards.

• Place the fanned out cream petals over the first pink petal so it peeks out at the top.

7. Fan out the next two cream petals.

• This time place the cream petals over the second pink petal.

8. Fan out the fifth and sixth cream petals.

• Place these two over the third pink petal.

9. Fan the seventh and eighth cream petals.

• Place these over the forth pink petal.

10. Now add the last four pink petals between the cream ones forming a kind of four point pink star.

• Check out your daisy and adjust any petals you'd like to make them more evenly placed.

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Now that we can see how the petals fit, we're ready to start gluing them on. 

We'll follow a sightly different order, so we can adjust nearby petals as needed before the glue dries.

11. Glue on the pink plus sign.

12. Glue on the first two fanned cream petals.

13. Glue on the second two fanned cream petals.








Here the order changes.

14.  Glue on the first pink petal of the star and then adjust (if needed) the cream petals before the glue dries.

15. Glue on the fifth and sixth cream petals.

16. Glue on the second pink petal of the star, and adjust the cream petals if needed.

17. Glue on the seventh and eighth cream petals.

18. Glue on the third pink petal of the star and adjust the cream petals if needed.

19. Glue on the last pink petal of the star and adjust other petals as needed if the glue hasn't dried yet.










Now a 2" x 2" square--or diamond

2-D Daisy from Plain White Paper and Construction Paper

2-D Daisy on Blue Construction Paper

1. Fold a piece of white paper in half lengthwise.

2. Cut one inch wide strips.

3. Four white strips all together.

4. Cut the strips on the fold line making eight strips.

5. Take the strips two by two, and fold them in half lengthwise.

6. Cut the corners off the open ends only.

7. Eight pairs of strips with corners cut off for the daisy petals.

8. Arrange the petals, crease down, on the blue background.

9. Turn over four petals so the crease is facing up.  

• Put a line of white glue along the crease. 

• At this point it's helpful to move the other petals further out of the way than I did in the picture.

10. Glue the first petals on. 

• These first four are guides for the other petals.

11. Turn over the next four petals which are inbetween the petals already glued on.

• Glue on the next four.

12. Now work by quarter sections. 

• In the first quarter section, glue on two petals. 

• These two fit between the petals already glued on.

13. In the second quarter section, glue in the 11th and 12th petals.

14. In the third quarter section, glue in the 13th and 14th petals.

15. In the forth quarter section, glue in the 15th and 16th petals.

16. The last petal going in.

17. Fold a yellow sheet of construction paper in half lenghthwise.

18. Cut two strips an inch wide.

19. Two strips.

20. Cut these strips into one inch squares.

21. Squares for the middle of the daisy.

22. Cruch up the squares and put in the middle of the daisy to see how many are needed.

23. Not all may be needed.

24. Fill the middle of the daisy with white glue.

25. Add cruched up squares applying more glue as needed.

Finished Daisy.