Easter Crafts With Tin Cans

• A clean tin can
• White, light green, and lavender or purple construction paper
• Yellow tissue paper
• Pencil
• Scissors
• Colored straws, 12 per project
• Double-sided tape 
• Regular tape
• Glue
• Unpopped popcorn kernals

• Cut a rectangle from the purple construction paper to fit the tin can. A standard tin can is 4" by 9" (just a bit over 10 cm. by 22.5 cm).

• Glue It On The Can

• Have the child lightly trace his/her hand four times on white       construction paper and cut them out. (It's O.K. to cut out two at a time.)

• The hands are "lilies." Roll the fingers down around a pencil to form the petals.

• Use regular tape to fasten 3 straws together, in a triangle shape, to form a stem for each lily.

• Make four and cut two a little shorter than the others.

• Using double-sided tape, tape the bottom of each lily around one set of straws to form the flower, with the petals (the fingers) flaring outwards.

• Use tape on the stem and the inside of the flower to hold it.

• Eventually, I had to use regular tape on the outside to get the flowers to hold their shapes.

• Fill the center of each flower with a small amount of yellow tissue paper, fringed.

• Cut some long, thin leaves from the green construction paper to hide the tape at the base of the flowers.

• Use the double-sided tape to hold them on.

• Fill the can 1/3 full of popcorn to hold the flowers upright.

• Add some more long, thin green leaves around the rim of the can.

• Put the 2 shorter flowers in front of the 2 longer ones in the can.