Poppy Craft for Rememberance Day

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November 11th is Remembrance Day in the UK, whilst this is an important day for us to remember those who died fighting for our freedom it's not a day that the boys particularly know or understand yet so I decided to do a simple craft with Champ to provide an opportunity to chat about it.

 

I talked to him about us needing to remember brave soldiers that fought for us and that when we see Poppies we can remember those soldiers.

 

To make our (very simple) poppies we used a muffin paper case and talked about how poppies have a black middle and red petals.  Then we used crayons to colour the muffin paper case.

 

 

Here's Champ showing off his handiwork.

 

Next up, we threaded a green pipe cleaner through the paper then back on itself and twisted the end together to create a stalk.

 

I tried to take a photo of the finished poppies, but someone wanted in on the action.  We did keep this activity quite light hearted despite the subject matter, but I felt that was appropriate for Champ's age of not yet 3.

 

And here are our very simple conversation starting poppies.

 

How do you commemorate Remembrance Day?  Looking for more Remembrance Day crafts then check out the linky at Domestic Goddesque.