Pouch Cap Garden

Kids Fine Motor Activity

If you have young kids, you may be like us and have about a million food pouch caps. As I was throwing away yet another applesauce cap the other day, I realized that the caps look a bit like flower leaves and stems. So, I present to you the “pouch cap garden.”

How I Made This Pouch Cap Garden:

Creating The Garden

I started this project with an amazon box. I didn’t like the black tape on the top of the box so I cut a piece of cardboard off of a different box and hot glued it to the top of the amazon box to create a flat, brown surface for the garden. 

Next, I created the flowers. To do this, I started by tracing the circular part of the applesauce top to create the center of the flower.

Then, I drew flower petals around the circle and cut out the flower.

Once the flower was cut out, I used a box cutter (I couldn’t find my exacto knife at the time. My crafting closet is currently a huge mess) to cut slits into the center of the flower as shown below.

Next, I folded the center cutouts of the flower backwards. 

To complete the flower, I placed the flower onto the applesauce pouch cap. 

Once the flowers were created, I then hot glued them to the top of the amazon box.

Creating The Bugs

After the flower garden was created, I made bugs out of food pouch caps and pipe cleaners. 

I cut two pieces of pipe cleaners for the legs and slid the pipe cleaners through the pouch cap.

Next, I cut two shorter pieces of pipe cleaners and hot glued them to the pouch caps to create the antennas.

Finally, I used a sharpie marker to draw faces onto the bugs.

Playing With The Garden

My boys really enjoyed playing with the little bugs. After playing with them in the garden, I hid them all around the house and had my son find them. My son loved it so much that we did it over and over again.

To add a fine motor skill aspect to this activity, I had my boys place pom poms on and off of the applesauce tops to create the centers of the flowers. 

What You Will Need:

Applesauce pouch caps, food pouch caps, cardboard box, exacto knife, cardstock paper, hot glue gun, pipe cleaners, sharpie marker

Directions:

1. Trace the circular part of the applesauce top on cardstock paper to create the center of the flower
2. Draw flower petals around the circle and cut out the flower
3. Use an exacto knife to cut slits into the center of the flower as shown above
4. Fold the center cutouts of the flower backwards
5. Place the flower onto the applesauce pouch cap
6. Hot glue the flowers to the top of the amazon box
7. To create the bugs, cut two pieces of pipe cleaners for the legs and slide the pipe cleaners through the pouch cap
8. Cut two shorter pieces of pipe cleaners and hot glue them to the pouch caps to create the antennas 
9. Use a sharpie marker to draw the bugs’ faces
10. Have your child place the pom poms on and off the applesauce pouch caps to create the center of the flowers

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