Colorful Cauliflower Plants

This is a cute craft that celebrates cauliflower! Cauliflower comes in a rainbow of colors including white, purple, and orange. You can create your own rainbow of cauliflower plants using simple craft supplies that you most likely have at home already: coffee filters, green construction paper, brads (or pipe cleaners), safety scissors, and washable markers. And best of all- no glue;)

Colorful Cauliflower Plants

MATERIALS

• 9 coffee filters
• Green construction paper
• 3 brads (or pipe cleaners cut in half)
• Safety scissors
• Purple washable marker
• Orange washable marker

INSTRUCTIONS

1. Use safety scissors to cut around the circumference of 3 of the coffee filters to create a medium circle and 3 of the coffee filters to create a small circle (now you have 3 sets of large, medium, and small circles).
   
2. Leave the first set white, color the second set purple, and color the third set orange.
   
3. Run the purple and orange coffee filters under water, squeeze them out, and lay flat to dry.
   
4. Cut out cauliflower leaves from the green construction paper (following the shape seen in our example photo) and snip a small hole in the middle of each leaf.
   
5. Once coffee filters are dry, stack them in 3 piles with the largest filter on the bottom and the smallest on top.
   
6. Poke the brad (or pipe cleaner) through the middle of each coffee filter stack and then poke through the hole created in the leaf. Secure brad (or twist pipe cleaner to secure).
   
7. Scrunch the coffee filters and you made colorful cauliflower plants!

Step-by-Step Photos