Lollipop Plants - a craft for all seasons
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Grow a lollipop plant! Whether you are a teacher, mom, or kid who loves crafts, this is the perfect holiday craft for you and makes a great keepsake. It's very simple and you don't even need dirt. This is a great festive decoration. You can use any kind of lollipops - Blow Pops, Tootsie Roll Pops or the traditional non filled pops. According to Shawn Taylor, "My children and I are making the lollipop tree for Valentines day. Instead of circles, we are cutting heart shapes. On the outside, we sponged heart shapes and wrote around the rim of the flower pot "How does your garden grow..." We are making these for the grandparents this Valentine's Day"

What you need:

• Small terra cotta flower pot
• Acrylic paints
• Water based glaze
• Styrofoam
• Spanish moss

What you do:

1. Decide on what you would like to paint onto your pot. Pumpkins and other Halloween symbols are good ideas. But you can choose alls ort of symbol like hearts for Valentine's Day. Maybe candy corn and other treat designs can be included.
2. Once your flower pot has dried apply water based glaze according to jar instructions. Let the pot completely dry.
3. Place a small piece of Styrofoam at the base of the pot. Place lollipops into the foam and cover generously with Spanish Moss. You may want to use green Styrofoam so that it blends well with the moss.

Valentine's Day Idea
From: Shawn Taylor
The lollipop tree can also be made a different way. My children and I are making them for Valentines day. The same way only instead of circles we are cutting heart shapes. On the outside we sponged heart shaped and wrote around the rim of the flower pot "How does your garden grow..." We are making these for the grandparents this Valentine's Day.

Christmas Idea for Lollipop Plants
From: Judy
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Real cute idea! And at Christmas time you can use candy canes instead of lollipops and attach The Story of the Candy Cane!

Cut out flowers from fun foam
From: Henkles
We had made something like this in our pre-school class. Only we cut out flowers from fun foam but I am sure you could use construction paper. We used the lollipops for the center of the flowers. It worked great, less lollipops and less cavities. We also added leaves to the flowers with the foam. : )
see the original craft above

Mother's Day Variant
From: Martha Wisniewski
My daughter in law did something close to this last year for mother's day. She took a clay pot, glued pretty tissue paper on the outside. Put oasis (I guess, I haven't taken it apart). Next she cut out flower shapes from fun foam and leaves. She hot glued those to green pipe cleaners. Then she took pictures of my three grandsons and glued them to the center of the flowers. She cut the pictures in circles. Then stuck them into the flower pot and put fake moss to hide the oasis. It is so cute. She made one for all the grandparents and great-grandparents. That would be a good gift to give those family members that you don't have a clue what to get.

Cardboard Earrings
The kids will enjoy making these earrings for themselves or as gifts. Be creative with the designs and you'll be sure to have a true piece artwork! It's also a great gift for Mom or for that favorite teacher!!

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