Sunflower Vocab Wall Hanging

This is my first ever post and needless to say, am thoroughly excited.

So the other day Yash had to make an English project for his class and the topic was vocabulary wall hanging. The idea was to take a composite word and break into two and then find two rhyming words for each partial word so its kind of a tree with two branches. For e.g., Butterfly = butter + fly. Butter, flutter, cutter and Fly, sly, by.

I had a few words in my mind to play around with like Superman, grasshopper, sunflower. I settled for sunflower as these are Yash's favourite flowers. Yash gladly approved my choice. And he provided the list of rhyming words to be on the wall hanging. Here is the list of words: Sunflower, Sun, Run, Fun, Flower, Shower, and Tower.

Then I went on Pinterest to look for ideas of wall hangings and found an ideal pin on Indian Corn Sunflower(indian-corn-sunflower) for this project. I took the idea of craft with lots of appreciation and sincere thanks to Esther for her craft.  However, I had my own set of materials to use and here is the result.

Sunflower Wall Hanging

Materials
Sunflower disk
a piece of Cardboard (I got from packaging material)

Sunflower petals
sunny yellow coloured Kite paper (very thin translucent paper for making kites)

ribbon (any color, I used the one that I had handy)
glue stick
a pair of scissors

Steps to follow

Cut out a circle on the cardboard. I used a bangle of  diameter 1.5 inches. You can draw the circle as big as you want your sunflower disk to be.

Cut out six smaller circles for the rhyming words.

Cut out two petal shapes (you can see the template here indian-corn-sunflower), a long one and a small one on the cardboard. These will act as our models.

Fold the kite paper lengthwise to form at least 8-9 layers and then fold this in half. Like this you will get 16-18 layers. Put a model of petal and trace the shape on the paper. Cut neatly. Separate the petals.

Now take the bigger circle and apply glue on one side of it ( the one that will be its reverse). Stick smaller petal shapes round the periphery of the circle. Set out to dry. Do the same for all circles.

Once dry, stick another round of petals on top of first layer but with a slight shift so that the second layer forms an interleaving. Set it out to dry. Repeat the same with long petals. Your sunflowers are ready.

Finished flower

Now take the ribbon and stick the flowers on it to form the hanging. Write the words or decorate on the obverse side.

Since I had to make two branches so I pasted two thin strips of cardboard on either side of the main flower (at around 120 degrees angle to each other). On one side were Sun, Run and Fun and on the other side were Flower, Shower and Tower,

I had earlier decided to use maroon bindis on the sunflower disk, however, since I had to write the words, I discarded the idea.

I had much fun in doing this project. Hope you like this too.

--Simply Amrita