"April Showers Bring May Flowers" Kid's Craft

This cool paper craft turns a raindrop magically into a flower!

1. Fold a piece of paper or cardstock in half. 

 2. Find the middle of that. Either make a very light fold or a light pencil mark that can later be erased.

3. Fold one side inward to that center mark.

4. Fold the other side inward to the center forming a point.

5. Keeping the paper folded, use the template below to trace and cut out the raindrop shape. You only need to cut a "U" shape-- leave the point and top folds intact.

6. The kids are now ready to do their "magic trick" by unfolding the raindrop to transform it into a flower.  Kids can decorate them by watercolors, crayons, markers, etc. as they learn the phrase "April showers bring May flowers!" 

Here is the template you can cut out to use for tracing. The dotted line is simply where the edges line up where you folded the paper. DO NOT CUT THE FOLDED EDGE. 

 Here are some examples of ones that were made in my class: