π Earth day is nearly here and Murrieta and Temecula have put together events to help celebrate it!
An Earth Day Craft You can do at home:
A lantern made of dried flowers, tissue paper and glue. This is a simple craft that you could potentially have all the items for in your house. It's a great way to preserve nature and recycle paper into something beautiful!
All you will need is:
Flowers (fresh or already dried and pressed)
An iron if you're going to use fresh flowers and need to press/dry them
Wax paper (if you need to press/dry your flowers)
Tissue paper (preferably white)
School glue
Water
Paint Brush
Twinkle Lights
Balloon
We found beautiful Fresh Flowers in our neighborhood. | I used my heat press to press and dry the flowers between sheets of wax paper. |
Use 1 part glue/1 part water. Do a layer of paper and glue around entire balloon, add flowers and put white paper over the flowers with another layer of glue solution. | Once glue is dry, deflate balloon. Add twinkle lights in it. |
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