We made this two ways - rolling paper for the flowers and scrunching tissue paper - the second option is easier for littlies to do.
You will need:
Egg carton
Cereal box card (or similar)
Coloured paper (or painted plain paper)
Tissue paper (optional)
Craft glue
Paint
Scissors
1. First paint some cereal box card green and one of the egg cones blue or whatever colour you'd like your vase to be - paint some of the egg box lid too.
Putting the egg cone on a spare cone makes painting a lot easier (and a little less messy!)
2. Find something in the kitchen with a small round base to draw around. We used a spice pot. Cut out your circle.
We cut out two to show the different ways to make the flowers.
3. For the rolled roses, cut a strip of coloured paper (we chose red), about 16cm/6in. long and roughly 8cm/3in. wide. Put a little line of glue at the far end and start rolling, keeping it tight.
4. With good scissors, cut across your roll - this is best done by a grown-up - keep the pieces as thin/small as you can.
5. Paint some red splodges on your green circle, where you'd like the flowers to go.
6. Get on with making the vase while the paint dries, then dot some glue in the middle of each painted flower shape and add your little paper scrolls.
7. For an easier option, fold some tissue paper over a few times and cut out small squares (about 3cm/1in.) ). Then scrunch them up to make your blooms. Glue on the red paint marks, as before.
8. For the vase, cut the egg carton cone in half lengthways.
9. Then, trim away some of the side, so it's more even. Give it a press to push the sides out a little.
10. For the base of the vase, cut a triangle out of the spare egg carton card you've painted. Make the triangle quite flat and wide. Glue under the bottom of the vase. (The one on the right has tissue paper roses)
Glue the top of the vase to the back of your flowers.
11. To make it into a fridge magnet, you'll probably need to glue some card to the top part of the vase first, so the magnet is at the right level. We used some strong clear glue (like UHU glue) to stick the magnet on. Or you could use a glue gun.
