Handprint sunflower for the Summer Solstice

With the current heatwave we’re experiencing in the UK it’s no surprise that today we’re marking the Summer Solstice. This is the longest day of the year and it looks like we’re having another hot day filled with blanket sunshine until late into the evening.

To celebrate the Summer Solstice we made a fun handprint Sunflower. It was so simple but kept my 5 year old busy. You need basic supplies of yellow paper, a paper plate, a cork and some black paint.

Handprint sunflower for the Summer Solstice

My 5 year old loves any craft which involves her hands. We drew around her hands using the yellow card – these would form the petals of our sunflower.

Then we cut around her hand so we had plenty of hand print petals.

We set these aside and worked on the centre of the sunflower.

My daughter used a cork to paint the sunflower seeds by dipping it in black paint and printing it in the centre of the paper plate.

We left it to dry in the sun.

Then we put our handprint sunflower together by taping the handprint petals around the edge of the paper plate. My daughter enjoyed making this and it’s a lovely way to mark the longest, sunniest, hottest day of the year (so far!).