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