Idea for the Week: Pressed Flower Frame

This activity will lead you to explore your yard, collect some beautiful flowers, and create the perfect gift for Mother’s Day. 

To begin this project, head outside with a pair of scissors and cut a few flowers that you think would look nice together. Then, fold a piece of white paper and insert it between two pages of a book along with your flowers. Leave the flowers for 4-5 days so that they have enough time to set. Use hot glue to place a small amount of glue behind each flower to hold it in place before closing the frame.

Here are some materials that you may need:

• Frames (you can either buy one with two sheets of glass or use two of the same size frames to combine both glass sheets in one frame)
• Hot glue
• Scissors
• Books
• White sheet of paper

For a faster version of this project, this page has a shortcut for pressing your flowers using cotton fabric and firebricks.

Image by Наталья Шадрина-Чепель