Hammered flower art is an amazing art and science activity all in one! Encourage the kids to experiment with different flowers, grasses and leaves and discover the imprints they leave on the fabric or card. Try different patterns and flower arrangements to see which you like best.
Preparing to make Hammered Flower Art – Picking flowers
Firstly, you’ll need to pick some colourful petals and blooms. Take a nature walk or explore your garden and pick some colourful flowers (the more colour the better).
Make sure you pick a variety of colours and types of flowers and leaves, so you can experiment with them and see which ones work the best.
Gather Your Supplies
- Hammer, mallet or rolling pin
- Flowers from the garden or a nature walk
- White or natural cotton fabric (an old pillowcase, shirt or hanky is perfect)
- If you don’t have any fabric you can use, you can use thick paper
- Kitchen towel
- Chopping board
- Newspaper
- Sticky tape or washi tape
How to make Hammered Flower Art
- Lay a couple of sheets of newspaper on top of your chopping board, and then lay your fabric on top of the newspaper.
- If you’re using a pillowcase, you might want to put the chopping board and newspaper inside the pillowcase, so you only dye one layer of fabric.
- Place your flowers on top of your fabric (randomly or in a pattern).
- Put 2 sheets of kitchen roll on top of the flowers and sellotape your ‘sandwich’ of layers together (so the flowers don’t move around).
- Take your hammer, mallet or rolling pin and bash all over the top of the kitchen roll. Please take care of your fingers!
- When you’ve bashed the whole design, take off your sellotape and carefully peel off the kitchen roll. If you’re happy with the effect, take off the petals and discard them. If the imprints are faint, put your ‘sandwich’ back together and continue to bash the design.
- Display your creation with pride, you could frame your design if you used a scrap of fabric or perhaps turn it into a flag or bunting.
Alternatively, you can watch the recorded hammered flower art craft along video on YouTube. (Start the video at 2.45).
Tips and Side Notes
Adult supervision is recommended for this activity, and I highly recommend you try it too – it’s fun and therapeutic!
It’s a good idea to do this activity outside or on the floor to protect your furniture.
Feeling inspired? I’ve put together a huge blog post, full of easy summer craft inspiration. You can also find even more brilliant, simple summer craft ideas on Twinkl, including one of my favourite projects – DIY puffy paint.
I hope you and the kids have a blast creating some hammered flower art. Let me know how you get on in the comments. Please tag me @madebymecraftparties in your photos on socials, I’d love to see what you create.
wow!!
Thank you so much! I’m glad you like it. Have you tried it out yet?
alexiabrowning recently posted…Hammered Flower Art For Children
This experience exemplifies the harmonious blend of nature and creativity. The idea of imprinting flowers onto paper to produce colorful designs is remarkably clever. Youngsters can explore their artistic abilities while simultaneously discovering the magic of plants. It is a wonderfully messy and exhilarating activity that results in frame-worthy art—just be mindful of those little hands wielding the hammer!
I agree, it’s a wonderful way of exploring art and nature. My kids loved doing it and I know a few adults who loved experimenting with it too. It does need careful supervision, but no fingers were squashed during the production of this blog post!
Wow. This looks so awesome .I wish my thumbs were greener. I’d totally give this a go but our garden is pretty sparce . I think I need to plant me some happiness! Thanks for sharing and enjoy the wkend!