Try a unique twist on drawing flowers.
Create a digital flower still life in 5 easy steps!
This is a fun way to introduce your young artist to digitally altering photos. I recommend doing this project together or better yet…have the whole family involved. Everyone could create their own flower to add to the still life. What a great mother’s day gift (This also could be a great teacher appreciation gift from the whole class)!
If you need flower inspiration take a walk outside and sketch the flowers you see or talk about the shapes that make up the flowers. Nature is always a great free source of inspiration.
Materials:
Drawing Materials
White Paper
Construction Paper
Scanner or Camera
Computer
Printer
Scissors
Glue
Construction Paper
Tutorial:
Step 1: Draw your flowers individually along with a vase on white paper.
Step 2: Take a digital photo or scan your flower and vase drawings.
Step 3: Edit your flower and vase photos with a photo editing program (we like PicMonkey and its free!) Shown below is one example of how you can use PicMonkey to create fun colored digital flowers.
Step 4: Print your flowers and vase and cut out with scissors.
Step 5: Arrange and glue your flowers and vase on to a piece of construction (or scrapbook) paper. We used different colored paper to create a pattern for the background behind the flowers and a darker colored paper for the table that is behind the vase.
We would love to see your digitally altered flowers and still life photos. Post to our Facebook page or tag us on Instagram #handmadekidsart
Jamie,
This is such a cool idea! I totally want to try this out. The flower tutorial that you shared is absolutely beautiful! This might also be a cool idea to do as an end of year teacher’s gift.
Thanks for sharing!
jen 🙂
Thank you Jen! I agree it would be a great gift for a teacher and an easy way to get the whole class involved. Thank you for commenting! 🙂
How cool is that! My children (and hubby) would love it!
Thank you for commenting. My kids had a lot of fun playing with the different colors on the computer.The best thing is you can print more than one! 🙂
This is such a great gift idea! I will probably have my kiddos do this for homeschool next week for my mom. It’s a great way for them to play around with technology, and make something totally unique! Thanks for the idea. I’m pinning it.
Thanks for pinning! For us it was a great way to introduce photo altering in a fun way. Let us know how it turns out!
How fun! These look awesome! What a fun activity!
Thanks! We had a lot of fun making them! 🙂