Indoor Flower Box

Prep Time: 5 minutes   Hands on Time: 45 minutes (you can break this project up over a couple days)

Supplies:
Styrofoam round disks (found at craft store)
Glue or Modge Podge
Paintbrush
Buttons
Pencils
Green Artist Tape (found at art supply or craft store)
Pipe Cleaners
Scissors
Flower Arranging Foam or a Rectangular Styrofoam Block (found at craft store)
Shoebox
Green paper or card stock
Easter grass

Begin by adding a liberal amount of glue to one round side of the Styrofoam disk and cover it in buttons. Put aside to dry. Once the buttons are completely set, flip the disk over and repeat the same process, so both sides of your flower’s center are decorated. Allow to dry again. Next, you are ready to add petals. Select your pipe cleaners and cut each pipe cleaner in half. Take the first cut pipe cleaner, and fit it into the side of the Styrofoam disk. Curve the other part of the pipe cleaner into a petal or rounded shape and stick the other end into the foam disk. Continue to make pipe cleaner petals all the way around the foam disk. Add as many pipe cleaner petal layers as you wish. Now this flower needs a stem. Grab the green artist tape and wrap it all around a pencil. Stick one end of the pencil into your flower and once that is set in place, stick the other end into the flower foam or Styrofoam block. Cut enough green paper to fit around your shoebox, and cut a grassy type edging to the top of the paper. Glue the paper all around the shoebox, so you can no longer see the ugly old shoebox itself. Once the glue dries. stick your flowers and foam in the center of the box and cover with easter grass. Enjoy the perfect homemade kid-friendly centerpiece guaranteed to make everyone’s holiday meal even better.