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pressing flowers with kids.

August 1, 2013 by mama lola

pressing flowers, summer crafts

I remember as a little girl collecting all sorts of flowers and leaves and stuffing our old school, massive phone books with them. If I had an Instagram account, I would have definitely posted them on there instead of creating a book! I was never like in school due to my hobbies. I would have so needed to get instagram followers! Haha. those old phone books were ideal for pressing flowers, as you could fill them with quite a collection and the paper was perfect. plus, at our house any way we had a huge stack of yellow pages and white pages.

redtedart has a great tutorial on how to press flowers. it’s really not hard and you don’t need any special equipment, except maybe some patience as the flowers take a few weeks to press and dry properly. 

when travelling, i have picked a flower and placed them into the book i have with me. sometimes i have forgotten about them and rediscovered them a while later. what a lovely way to reminisce about an exciting adventure! 

the dainty squid pressed other wonderful natural finds, like mushrooms! 
go check out more of her beautiful pictures HERE!

this summer i will get the kids to collect and press a few leaves or flowers from our road trip. once we get back home, we can make something out of them!
 
xo, mama lola
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Comments

  1. akl @livelafelove.com says

    August 1, 2013 at 3:37 pm

    I loved pressing flowers as a child! I excited to (a) have a garden with pressable flowers and (b) see Vivian grow big enough to enjoy this.

  2. rebecca at thisfineday says

    August 1, 2013 at 4:02 pm

    Thanks for the reminder! I always forget about pressing flowers after the girls return from a walk with many many plant treasures.

  3. Chris says

    August 4, 2013 at 7:35 am

    Hi there, just stopping by to say how delightful your blog is. Thanks so much for sharing. I have recently found your blog and am now following you, and will visit often. Please stop by my blog and perhaps you would like to follow me also. Have a wonderful day. Hugs, Chris
    http://chelencarter-retiredandlovingit.blogspot.ca/

  4. Sarah Honey says

    August 7, 2013 at 1:35 pm

    Loved doing pressing flower projects as a kid! Great idea! Thank you so much for sharing & linking up at Thank You Honey’s Whatever Wednesday Party!!

  5. Neighbor Chick says

    August 7, 2013 at 7:14 pm

    Such a sweet project for the little ones. Gotta tweet and pin this. Have a lovely day!!

  6. Katie says

    September 18, 2013 at 7:15 pm

    These are lovely! My girl pressed some flowers earlier this summer, and I haven’t remembered about them till now! Refraining from peeking until the morning…

  7. Michelle says

    May 14, 2014 at 12:54 pm

    Can’t wait to try this after our next nature walk 🙂 Michelle



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