Tuesday, July 19, 2011

Toddler Tuesday- Pretend Flower Garden

Evelyn LOVES flowers. 
Whenever we leave the house she is constantly trying to pick a flower off some bush somewhere. 
Thanks to the genius who decided poisonous flowers like Lantana and Oleander were the best choice in Arizona landscaping, I am constantly bursting her little bubble saying "No, not that one! Put that down!".

 So, it was no surprise that her favorite activity at the Phoenix Children's Museum was the pretend flower gardens. If we would have let her she would have spent the entire time planting and arranging the colorful flowers. 

Perfect! Flowers that can be planted and replanted all day long with no worries of them being poisonous! 

For Evelyn's birthday I made her own personal Pretend Flower Garden. 

I bought: 
  • 10 different bunches of colorful flowers (dollar store)
  • Small plastic watering can (dollar store) 
  • Small toy shovel set (dollar store) 
  • 2 colorful planters (walmart) 
  • 2 square foam blocks (walmart, same aisle as fake flowers) 
  • Big clear plastic tub to hold everything (walmart)
All I did was super glue the foam blocks into the flower pots so she could push the fake flower into it and they stand straight up. (tried hot glue first but it didn't stay long) 

She loves it. Easy, cheap, and lot's of fun! 


6 comments:

  1. Thank you! I found this in a search for "pretend flower garden" because the only thing my almost 3 yr old daughter has asked for, for Christmas, are "toy flowers"! I will try this project! :)

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  2. So glad... she still loves playing with it however the flowers have gotten some wear... I may need to replace some soon (i got mine at the dollar store) or if they were the "nicer" kind I may have tried gluing the flowers that pulled off easily. :)

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  3. Did you use real florist foam, or the styrofoam type? I'm not sure which would crumble less. I know there are some that crumble really bad. What do you recommend? (I know nothing about florist foam-lol!)

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  4. I was at walmart and in the craft area where they had the fake flowers they had round squares of foam a soft one that was more crumbly and then another one that was more Styrofoam like... I went with the second one cause I thought the soft crumbly one would make a mess...

    It's worked good with little mess, after awhile it just has a bunch of holes in it and she pushes it in the already made holes now. Hope that helps!

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  5. I was at walmart and in the craft area where they had the fake flowers they had round squares of foam a soft one that was more crumbly and then another one that was more Styrofoam like... I went with the second one cause I thought the soft crumbly one would make a mess...

    It's worked good with little mess, after awhile it just has a bunch of holes in it and she pushes it in the already made holes now. Hope that helps!

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