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This easy cupcake liner flowers threading activity has it all! It combines fine motor skill practice, a craft project, and pretend play into one!
Threading Flowers Fun Using Cupcake Liners!
This activity was inspired by this popular cereal threading activity!
Cereal threading makes for some delicious fine motor fun, but my 2 year old, Clara, is more into snacking on cereal than threading it.
While looking for something less edible for her to thread, I spotted some cupcake liners in our craft supply closet.
Cupcake liners make great craft supplies, especially for any craft or activity requiring a paper circle.
From learning activities like this silly name a pelling one, to jump and grab sight words!
I’ve used them to make snowflakes and paper flowers with my children in the past.
Why not use the cupcake liners in a flower-inspired threading activity?
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Prepping Your Cupcake Liner Flowers Activity
For this Fine Motor Activity, You Will Need:
- Cupcake liners
- Dowels, popsicle sticks, or twigs to make the stem
- Play dough
- Scissors
Making Flower Petals from Cupcake Liners
To prepare for this project, I folded the cupcake liners (the flower petals) in half and used scissors to snip a small hole in the center of them.
Make sure the hole is wide enough for the “stem” to thread through!
I also cut some petal shapes along the edge of some of the cupcake liners to make them look a bit more like flowers.
Setting Up the Stem!
I used a lump of play dough to mount a small dowel (the stem!) onto our table.
I found the dowels at our local dollar store, but popsicle sticks or twigs from the backyard would work just as well!
Threading Cupcake Liner Flowers for Toddlers
Once the “petals” and “stem” were ready, I called Clara in to start threading!
I showed Clara how to line up the hole in the cupcake liner with the dowel and to push it down to thread it through.
She quickly got to work threading the rest of the liners to assemble her first flower.
After the cupcake liner petals were in place, I gently pushed them up the dowel and added a ball of orange play dough to make the flower’s center.
With the first flower finished, Clara started building a wild bouquet!
More Ways to Thread and Play!
This threading project could easily be turned into a color sorting activity! Use cupcake liners in a variety of designs and encourage your child to sort and thread them by color and pattern.
You could also turn this activity into scissor practice by allowing your child to cut the edges of the cupcake liners into different flower petal shapes themselves.
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