F is for Fluffy Flower! This is made with coffee filters and washable markers, which I first remember doing in one of my science classes in high school (Biology, I think, with Coach DuBose). We used three filters for each flower to make them nice and fluffy. You color on the coffee filter with markers, then spray with water. The color spreads out and mixes. You definitely need to put paper towels or something underneath before spraying. Then, let them dry. After they're dry, fold in half, and punch a hole through both layers in the middle, near the fold. Use a green pipe cleaner for the stem. Put the pipe cleaner through one hole in each of the filters, then put a fairly large bead (pony beads work, or even something larger) on the pipe cleaner, fold it over, and send it through the other holes in each filter. Twist the pipe cleaner together to keep the flower where it belongs, and maybe even shape one end of it into a leaf! Then pull the filters gently through your fist to shape them into a flower.
Just for fun, I rubbed a little oil from an air freshener on the inside filter near the bead to make the flower smell good! Then it was a Fragrant, Fluffy Flower!
At the end of the day, Miss M remembered that flower starts with F and even picked out an F from among the refrigerator magnet letters! Elizabeth, when asked "What kind of word is 'fluffy,' if it tells us more about the flower?" answered "An adjective!" with no prompting or help! Yay! It's soaking in!
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