Parent's Day Flower Card

I am in charge of making a parent's day card with the students to send for the holiday. I usually spend two class periods working on the card like I did with last year's project. However, because of COVID-19, we missed a couple of weeks of school and the week after students came back to school we had to send out cards. I decided to make a simple card that could be started and finished in the same day.  

First, students painted a white paper with pink acrylic paint. I prefer painting paper over cutting paper because the painted paper gets a special paintbrush effect on it that makes the art look handmade and feels more genuine than perfectly printed colored paper. While we waited for the paint to dry, we used other textured paper to cut out a flower shape that we layered on the pink paper once it was dry. 

Students also traced and cut out the pot for their card and the green stems. 

Some of the pink paper had dried but I had to use a hair dryer to dry other papers. On the pink paper we had traced 6 circles of 3 different sizes (small, medium and large) for our flowers. We cut everything, glued it together and glued it to the back of our cards. The students that finished faster added colored beads to their pots and flowers.