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Description

Mark Remembrance together by making these poppies. Place them in your window to share with your community.

Resources

You will need
Scissors
Red tissue paper
Black tissue paper
Laminating pouches
A laminating pouch carrier
A laminator
Hole punch and string (optional)
Sticky tape (optional)

Instructions

Setting up the laminator
Set up the laminator in a safe place, away from any young people, and allow it time to heat up.
Remember, laminators can get hot to the touch, so an adult volunteer may choose to feed the pouches into the laminator themselves. Always use a carrier to protect your laminator.
Start the activity
Provide each person with a laminating pouch, then give them some red and black tissue paper.
Gather everyone together and explain that they’ll be making some poppies to display as window decorations for Remembrance. They should be able to fit two poppies onto one laminating pouch.
Everyone needs to tear small pieces of tissue paper. These then need to be placed inside the pouch in the shape of a poppy. It doesn’t matter if the edges are rough or if they poppies don’t seem to be round in shape.
People could add their initials to a piece of tissue paper so they can tell which is theirs when they're done.
They then need to very carefully close the pouch. If anyone closes the pouch too quickly, they’ll move or disturb the pieces of tissue paper.
With adult supervision, or to be completed by an adult, the next step's to place the pouch into a carrier and carefully pass the sheets through the laminator.
Once the sheets have been laminated and have cooled down, people need to cut the poppies out. They should try to get as close to the edges of the tissue paper as they can, without cutting into the poppies themselves.
Once completed, you could use sticky tape to display the poppies in a window and watch the light pour through! You could also use a hole punch to make a hole in the poppy and thread some string through to hang them up.
Why not put all the poppies together in a circle to make a window wreath display?

Tags

• Poppies
• Rememberance
• wreath

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• Creative - Craft
• Skills - Creative activity