Flowers from Dollar Tree chip plates

Finished Flowers made from a chip dish and pool noodles

I purchased the chip dish and the pool noodles from Dollar Tree. For our VBS theme song we use black light. Our props have to be made from something that will glow under the black light. I took yellow, orange and pink florescent spray paint and painted the bottom of the chip dish. These flowers look really pretty under the black light and are very easy to make.

Supplies pictured, chip dish, pool noodle, 7/8 dowel, 6 inch 2/4 , one large sheet of green fun foam, and clear packing tape. ( I forgot to put the fun foam and the packing tape in the picture.)

To make one flower you will need on pool noodle cut to the desired length, one 7/8 dowel, a piece of 2 x 4, (about 6 inches long with a hole drilled in the middle of the wood, but not all the way through), and a chip dish. After painting the front and letting it dry, I took my 2x4 and using hot glue, glued the dowel to the 2 X 4. Next I took  the pool noodle and cut about 3 inches at and angle so that when I tape the  pool noodle  to the flower it will be tilted out. Using strong clear packing tape, tape the pool noodle to the center underside of the chip dish. The last step is to cut out grass from a large piece of green fun foam and leaves. Cut into the side of the pool noodle at the point you want your leaves, Insert the leaf, and carefully glue the leaf to the noodle. If you use too much it will melt the pool noodle. Then glue the grass to the front of the 2X 4. After the paint dries it only talks 30 minutes or less to assemble the flower and the cost is under $3.00 dollars. Now that is the kind of VBS decorations I like.

Foam Flowers props for Journey off the Map

In January I attended Lifeway's VBS Preview event in Fort Worth, Texas. In one of the rooms they had flowers made from a flower cut from fund foam and  pool noodle through the middle. I like this idea, so when I returned home I began thinking about how I could take this idea and make it my own.



These are the supplies you need. I did not include the pool noodle in this picture or the pattern for the flower.

I found a drink cozy at my neighborhood store along with fun foam that is textured. I like how the texture looks. However, it is a thin foam and the flower wilt very fast. To help strengthen the flowers I purchased a thicker fun foam and glued it to the bottom of the flower. After cutting out the flower with my cricut, I cut out the thicker fun foam with scissors and glued it to the flower top. Then taking the drink cozy, I traced around it in the center of the flower and cut that out. Next take the flower and insertit over the tope of the cozy. To emblish it a little more, I took the center of the thick fun foam and glued it to the top of the cozy and then added a sticker flower. Take a pool noodle and cut it to the size needed, insert it into the bottom of the cozy. I added a little hot glue to keep it in place.

Bird's eye view of the flower

To display the flower, I had a 2 x 4 with a hole in the center of it already cut out. I then took a 7/8 inch dowel and hot glued it to the center of the 2 X 4 and then inserted the pool noodle over the dowel. I will add a picture of this later.

The two on the left and the right side are justed hot glued to the 2 x 4. It was eaiser than me trying to drill two more holes.

These flowers are easy to make and are also inexpensive.
They will look really good in our preschool hall
for Journey off the map decorations.


Completed flowers