Sunflower Paper Craft For Kids (Easy Tutorial!)

This Folded Paper Sunflower Craft is so fun and easy to make, and it’s the perfect way to celebrate summer turning into fall! Your kids will love making them as gifts to give to grandparents or to decorate the house.

Beautiful, bright yellow sunflowers 🌻 are familiar signs of the near end of summer. There is really nothing more beautiful than driving by a blooming sunflower field. Or being able to walk through a sunflower field in full bloom.

Don’t they just make you smile? They look so happy! I just saw a single one as I was riding my bike yesterday. It looked like a bright happy smile – and it helped me get to the top of my next hill!

Bring the outdoors inside with this paper sunflower craft! It’s a fun craft that kids of all ages will love because it looks much harder to make than it is! Simply use fun folding techniques that provide a very cool visual effect.

Let your children go shopping with you for the supplies. Engage them from start to finish, and they’ll feel such pride when they see what they accomplished! They’ll also get some pretty cool practice with fine motor skills!

All you’ll need to do is briefly sit down with them to demonstrate the technique. But then again, maybe once you get started you will want to join in on the fun! 😉

Looking for an activity to keep them busy and having fun? This Folded Paper Sunflower Craft will keep them busy for hours and hours because they won’t stop with just one sunflower.

Warning: you may end up with a “field” of sunflowers in your home!🌻

If you love this paper sunflower tutorial and would like more kid-friendly craft projects, try my Easy Pet Rocks Craft, DIY Mushroom Fairy House, or DIY Nature Mandala.

Sunflower Paper Craft Supplies

• Colorful Craft Paper – yellow, brown, and green paper plus various other color paper choices for the background.
• Pencil – use to trace pieces of sunflower
• Ruler
• Scissors – safety scissors for younger kids!
• Glue – glue stick or liquid glue…or glue dots would work well too!
• Template

How To Make This Paper Sunflower Craft

The process for making this beautiful sunflower craft project is surprisingly super simple. Just follow this step-by-step tutorial!

Step 1 – Grab The Template And Cut Out Your Petals

Begin by cutting out each sunflower petal for your paper sunflower craft from the PDF paper sunflower template. Download the petal templates here.

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Step 2 – Make Petal Sections

With one of the petal pieces, make a petal shape (like a cone) by bringing two sides of the circular paper together. Glue the overlapped area together.

Continue in the same manner until all the petal pieces are glued together.

Step 3 – Glue Down DIY Paper Sunflowers

Chose your preferred colored paper (I used white paper for my background). Glue the petals onto the card stock starting at the top in a circular shape.

Glue down all the petal pieces except the bottom middle one.

Step 4

Now glue the stem down with the top of the stem placed in the gap at the bottom of your paper sunflower.

Step 5

Once the stem is glued down, place the final petal over the stem and use a small amount of glue to hold it in place.

Step 6

Cut out a brown circular piece of craft paper for the sunflower center. Place it in the center of the flower and glue it down.

Step 7

From the template, cut out the leaves for your paper sunflower craft.

Step 8

Fold the leaves in a similar fashion as the flower petals and glue them on the stem of your paper sunflower.

Your gorgeous sunflower is complete!

Folded Paper Sunflower Craft Expert Notes And Tips

• Before gluing down any of the pieces down, place them all on the card stock first so that you can make sure you have them all exactly the way you want them.

• If using a glue stick to glue petals into circular pieces, be sure to pinch together the pieces until the glue has a chance to set and hold. I do find that glue dots are super helpful for this project!

Easy Sunflower Craft Variations To Try

• Let your creativity shine and change up the colors of the flower. Make the flower petals and background any color you wish.

• Turn it into a paper plate sunflower craft! Instead of using a piece of paper as your background, use a paper plate to make a good paper plate craft! I will say that I think this sunflower oaper craft works better on a flat surface.

• Add pom poms or buttons to the center on the brown craft paper. The buttons or pom poms will give it some interesting dimension.

• Before folding the petals, use a thin layer of liquid glue to each side and sprinkle some yellow glitter to make your paper sunflower shine. You can add glitter to the leaves and stem too.

• Use a large piece of card stock and cut out enough sunflower pieces to create your own ‘sunflower field’ on the card stock.

• Provide colored markers so that your kids can write a message on their craft or draw a ladybug, clouds or whatever else they think of.

Sunflower Paper Craft FAQs

I tend to see readers ask lots of questions about craft projects. If you have a question and don’t see it answered below, please leave it in the comments so I can answer it for you!

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