Fresh Flower Mask Making - By Peakle Pie

I'm very excited to have a guest post today from Helen at Peakle Pie, she has provided a fab activity perfect for springtime

Hello!  I’m Helen, Mum to Peakles my five year old daughter.  Peakles and I have been crafting, learning, playing for many years and I write about it on our blog called Peakle Pie.  We love playing and we love creating things from the books that have inspired us! 

I try to maintain that ‘hands on’ feel with our site and Peakles is involved with every craft and activity featured.  We aim to share our creative ideas for inspiring minds with Peakle Pie!

I try to maintain that ‘hands on’ feel with our site and Peakles is involved with every craft and activity featured.  We aim to share our creative ideas for inspiring minds with Peakle Pie!

 How to Make a Fresh Flower Mask

Fresh Flower Masks!  How about this idea for an Easter bonnet alternative or as a kid’s activity for a party?  Peakles loves going to craft shops with me and recently spotted some masks in one.  The masks were similar to the types that you would wear to a masquerade ball or as part of a costume.  Plus they were relatively cheap, so we purchased some for some extra special crafting!

We wanted to give the masks a flower theme and Peakles suggested picking some flowers out of our garden to help decorate them.  We selected a few flowers and then began to create our fresh flower masks!

 Materials and Equipment Needed

• blank bought or homemade masquerade ball masks      
• ribbon      
• marker pens      
• flowers      
• stick on jewels      
• sticky glue dots       
• fresh flowers

How We Made Our Fresh Flower Masks

First Peakles chose some nice ribbon to tie her mask onto her head.  Next, she took some of the markers and coloured in the mask.  She chose some oranges and reds for autumn and some greens and yellows for summer.  We left these to dry whilst we picked some flowers from our garden.  

Once the mask was dry, Peakles added some stick on jewels and then added some of the sticky dots to the mask too.  She carefully selected some of the fresh flowers we had picked and pressed these onto the sticky dots.  Finally, Peakles asked me to tie her mask onto her head and she then danced about to some music in the garden!

Why not try other materials to use on your masks such as

• buttons
• coloured foil
• glitter
• feathers
• rice or lentils

As you can see Peakles loved making and wearing these masks!  She has asked if we can do this again when her school friend visits for tea, we will have a great afternoon crafting and dressing up too!

You can find Peakle Pie on facebook , twitter  and pinterest  and why not have a look at some of Helens other posts here 

• http://peaklepie.com/great-adventures-with-the-pebble-in-my-pocket/
• http://peaklepie.com/how-to-make-busy-bags-with-buttons/
• http://peaklepie.com/how-to-make-pictures-from-scrap-fabric/