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Celebrate the love of math by making a beautiful flower (or even a whole garden!) with operational symbols and multiplication facts!
This fun craft takes about one half hour per flower and is appropriate for ages 6+ (with some help from a parent), or ages 9+ working alone.
1. Print out your Math Flower stencils. Cut out the pieces that you will need - the dotted lines show where the upper piece of the petal should be glued over the bottom piece. Cut only on the solid lines.
2. Trace the correct number of petals onto the card stock with the pencil, and cut them out with scissors. If you want to make any of the smaller flowers, trace and cut those pieces on card stock too.
3. Use the compass and instructions on the stencil sheet to create a large circle background to hold the petals, and a small center circle (the flower's ovary).
4. Carefully arrange the pieces of the flower evenly. Glue them down using the glue stick.
5. Allow to dry and add the numbers and symbols to the petals.
6. The largest flowers use an entire ruler as their stem. The medium-sized flowers use half a ruler. Use the glue gun and its glue to glue the flower to the ruler - make sure the central number is facing up the right way before you attach the flower! I taped mine down too just for good measure.
7. The small and tiny flowers use the green chenille pipe cleaners as stems. You can cut them short or leave them long and twist them so that they have "leaves." Use the glue gun to attach the smaller flowers to the pipe cleaner stems.
8. Put the styrofoam into the flower pot.
9. Stick the flowers you made into the styrofoam and add the dried moss to cover it.
Voila! Your flower is finished!
To make the math garden, simply create All The Flowers You Want, and put them in a large block of styrofoam. Add the moss and you're done!
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I’m an illustrator, surface designer and educator based in Atlanta, GA. I live with my boyfriend and our three rescue kitties, who very often make it into my art, especially the two black cats.
I feel very comfortable creating art for kids, because I'm really a kid at heart. I love cute animals and bright colors. I find it particularly satisfying to distill complex concepts into simple shapes that are stylized but easily recognizable.
Sienna Farr was one of Princess Awesome's first models, before our Kickstarter, before we were much more than a dream and a few dresses made of tee shirts and quilting material. She died in a fire that also seriously injured her mother on August 11, 2023, aged 13.
Princess Awesome is so proud to partner with Women in Aviation International to sponsor a design contest during the summer of 2023. We are looking for your awesome ideas for new clothing that features airplanes, helicopters, engineering concepts, schematics - anything that has to do with aviation.
