Easy Squeeze Pouch Lid Flowers

Do your kids love squeeze pouches? My three-year-old sure does! Squeeze pouches are like a major food group around our house! These easy squeeze pouch lid flowers are a fun upcycled craft that helps us reuse and recycle!

If you don’t reuse items around the house for crafts, you should give it a try! Making crafts from items out of the recycling bin encourages creativity and resourcefulness — and often doesn’t cost a dime! Pretty frugal, huh?

We do it so much around our house that my three-year-old has picked up this knack as well — it’s pretty hilarious to watch! She’ll sit there with an empty Ziploc bag or soda bottle and talk about how we upcycle it into a dolphin or hot air balloon. She’s definitely imaginative! So I enlisted her help on this squeeze pouch lid mission.

After much thought, my little one suggested we use the squeeze pouch lids to make flowers — I loved the idea! I collected lids like a mad woman for a week, and ended up with way more than I needed. However, it gave us a great color selection to choose from! I am really pleased with the way they turned out, and am thinking they’d make really cute 3-D art that you could frame and hang in a kid’s room. Don’t you agree?

Here’s how we made our squeeze pouch lid flowers!

Materials Needed:

Instructions:

Cut out petals and a stem from cardstock paper.
Glue down the stem and petals to form a flower. We layered two different colors to form the flower. It would be fun to experiment with colors and patterns, especially if you were going to frame this!
Glue the squeeze pouch lid in the middle, and allow to dry.
Frame or hang to display!
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Ashlee is a former teacher, turned stay-at-home mommy, who blogs over at The Well Nourished Nest. She enjoys writing on crafts for kids, healthy recipes, and encouragement for moms.

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