Pretty Celery Flower Paint Prints - Easy Painting Idea for Kids

A simple way to create beautiful flower prints!

This is a simple art idea - that turns out with pretty flower shaped prints!

These flower prints are not only fun to make, but look so pretty too!

This easy painting idea for kids would make a great card or painting idea for Mother's Day, a birthday or thank you card. I'm sure that mum, grandma, nan or someone else special would love to receive one of these.

These make a great handmade present idea too!

*Art idea for children ages 3+

Please ensure all art is supervised by an adult.

How to Make Celery Flower Paint Prints

You will need:

• Washable acrylic paint - we used Crayola washable paint

• Plate or recycled container lid to put paint on

• Paper

• Coloured cardboard for cards

• Head of celery (cut of the stalks of the celery to be left with a flower like shape)

• Smock

• Optional - green texta, crayon or pencil to draw the stem in once the paint is dry.

All you need is paint, a head of celery and some paper to make pretty flower prints!

We explored mixing white and red paint to make pink. You can just use a single a colour or explore colour mixing too.

What to do:

1. Pour the paint of your chosen colour on the paint pallette or plate.

2. Dip the celery head into the paint, making sure to get good coverage.

3. Print a flower shape by pressing the celery down firmly onto your paper.

4. Repeat until you have as many flower prints as desired.

5. Optional: Once dry use a crayon or pencil to draw stems and leaves for your flowers.

Stamp the celery onto the paper to make pretty flowers. You could use lots of different colours too!

We turned some of the flower prints into cards. Just print your celery onto pieces of folded coloured card. My girls drew on some stems for the flowers too.

The girls also had fun painting their hands and doing some hand printing too (always a favourite here!).

The flower prints make beautiful cards!

Extend this idea:

• Add more paint colour choices out to create a beautiful colourful garden of flowers.

• Use a large roll of paper and print the flowers on to make beautiful wrapping paper.

• See if there are other things around your house you could use to make prints!

• Add some yellow fingerprint bees above the flower prints. Add in details once they are dry!

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Celery Flower Prints - Easy Painting Idea for Kids

Thank you for reading this blog post!

These prints were not only simple to make, but were also lots of fun too! Great for kids to explore using paint to create prints and colour mix. They would look beautiful with different colour combinations too.

I hope you have found some inspiration and have fun with this simple painting idea.

Until next time, have fun learning in a playful way!

Danica