In honor of Shavuos, turn your plates or chargers into gorgeous floral artwork.
Make all the plates matching or keep each on unique; you can have them coordinate to your flower arrangements.
Pressing flowers is an ancient form of art, preserving nature’s beauty.
You can use this method to make beautiful crafts, cards and gorgeous wall décor as well; it’s a fun and exciting project for all ages.
You will need:
- flower petal and leaves (flatter petals work best)
- clear plastic plates/ chargers (2 per project)
Directions:
- Use the petals and leaf to make a design
- Place a second plate on top.
*To reuse the plates you can either use a third plate on top or carefully remove the top plate and replace with a fresh plate. If you are using the idea using plastic chargers you will not need to do this.
Photography by Hudi Greenberger
This article originally appeared in Family First
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4 Responses
These plates are stunning. I work for a special ed school and want to do this as a Shavous craft. It looks very simple for the students to do and will still come out looking pretty.
Do you have any suggestions of how i could seal the plates together and would the petals stay fresh if we make the craft almost a week before shavuos?
We think that sealing the plates might have a messy look.
Another suggestion would be to decorate a plastic charger with these gorgeous pressed flower stickers, like we used in our Floral Sukkah Sign
That’s a great idea. I try that.
Thank you,
Sora
Enjoy and keep up your great work!