The 2nd grade teacher and I consolidated lessons in celebration of Mother's Day. She would have the kids use Mod Podge and tissue paper to decorate a glass vase. I would teach the kids how to create tissue paper flowers to put in the vase.
Here were the steps I taught: Stack 4 pieces of tissue paper. Fold accordion style. Fold in half. Insert pipe cleaner. Tie. Staple. Fluff. I instructed them to create no more than 3 flowers using red, salmon, and baby blue tissue paper.
A few common trip ups: Instead of folding accordion style, a few kids rolled and folded which made the "fluffing" process difficult. A few kids stapled so that the staple ended up perpendicular, instead of parallel, to the pipe cleaner. This again made the fluffing process a challenge. For some reason some kids didn't understand how to fluff by separating the sheets of tissue paper until I showed them individually a second time.
I encouraged the kids to be creative by mixing the colors within the same color and using different colored pipe cleaners.
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