A Pretty Flower Window Garland

 Project completed 8/18/15

I love having fresh flowers in the house, but unfortunately both of our cats like them too - a bit too much. They will find any flowers I put out and either knock the vase over or chomp them to bits. When this happened recently to a bunch of flowers, I decided we could turn them into a pretty window decoration instead. It was easy and still adds that pretty look of flowers.

For this project we used:

• Flowers
• Contact paper (or these laminating sheets)
• Construction paper
• Pencil
• Scissors
• Hole punch (optional)
• Ribbon (or string) 

First I traced a cup eight times on yellow and purple construction paper to form the circles (the rim of the cup for the wider circle and the bottom of the cup inside). I cut these out to form rings.

On the laminating sheets, I laid the rings down on two laminating sheets - four for Tripp and four for me. I let him choose the colors and he picked two purple and two yellow rings.

Then we pulled apart the flowers, talking about the types of flowers, the colors and how sticky the laminating sheet was.

After the circles were filled, I put another sheet on top of both of our laminating sheets and pressed down to seal them together. I cut the circles out and carefully pressed as hard as I could to get all the air out.

These were fun for Tripp to look at. Almost like real nature flash cards or something like that.

Then it was simple to cut out a hole and string the circles on ribbon. Attached to the playroom window, they make a pretty nature display!