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We stuck with the traditional red poppy, but poppies do come in a wide variety of colors so you could also mix it up with pink, purple, white, yellow and orange (there are no blue or green poppies in nature, apparently). (Ella suggested bringing it to my Papa’s plot because his is indoors, but that wouldn’t work for most outdoor graves.) It is a simple craft that even toddlers could help make and it would be a thoughtful gift for a veteran or just looks lovely decorating your door. This year, Ella and I thought we’d turn her tissue paper poppies into a Remembrance Day Wreath.

We can turn them into badges (safer than pins), poppy magnets, arrange a vase with some, add them to a picture frame, or – as my daughter shows – tuck them in our hair. It’s a simple and straightforward craft that even the youngest of them can make, and the finished poppies can be used in so many different ways. We’ve also painted coffee filters to use for this craft when I’ve been out of tissue paper and it works great. I’ve made tissue paper poppies with my daycare kids almost every year now. This Tissue Paper Poppy Wreath is our latest poppy craft for kids. The wreath looks lovely hung from a window or used as a centrepiece on a table with a candle in the middle.Honoring Remembrance Day is important to my family and an easy way to involve the kids and facilitate conversations about the meaning behind Remembrance Day (or Veteran’s Day) is to engage them in a craft while talking about it. If you cannot find red cupcake liners, you can improvise with white ones and use some red paint on them. Finally, add a few leaves here and there around the edge. Once the poppies are complete, glue them around your wreath. Next, glue a button to the centre of each poppy. Have them glue the black dots to the centre of the cupcake liners.

Now it’s time for the kids to get involved. Take your cupcake liners, fold in half and cut along one edge – this will make them more of a poppy shape. Cut out your black circles & green leaves. If the craft is being done by older children who can handle using scissors, then no prep needs to be done.įirst, cut the centre out of the paper plate to form your wreath. There are a few things you will want to prepare before assembling the craft with your toddler.

Black circles cut from construction paper.

Red cupcake liners 圆 or x12 if you would like to double them up.

This book is wonderfully written in a way children can understand about why we wear a poppy each year at this time. We also read the book A Poppy is to Remember by Heather Patterson. It’s also a great opportunity to talk about our wonderful country and thanking those who fought for our freedom and safety. It’s a simple craft you can make with kids of any age using minimal supplies. To honour the memory of our fallen soldiers from World War I until now, Miss O and I made a poppy wreath.

Remembrance Day in Canada and Veterans Day in the US fall on the same day each year, November 11th. I remember reciting this poem every year in school.