Daisy Mirror Craft Tutorial

This is a tutorial I wrote for a craft we did in Daisy Girl Scouts, but it could easily be scaled down to an at-home activity. The girls earned a petal patch called "respect myself and others" for participating in this activity. You could really teach any lesson, depending on how you use the petals.

Note: Hobby Lobby stocks pre-cut flower mirrors, but they are not big enough to write much on and, well. if you buy it pre-made then you aren't really doing a craft, now are you? :)


First, you will need the following supplies:

• colored foam sheets
• unbreakable mirror (JoAnns)
• Foam Glue
• Pre-cut foam circles

Cut petal shapes out of the foam sheets. We used various colors. Scale them to the pre-cut circles. (You may be able to buy pre-cut egg shapes that would work just great.)

We wrote affirming words on each petal, so that each girl would have one of each on her finished flower.
We used things like: I like me inside., I like me outside., I am a good friend. You can use whatever words you want.

We used Scrapbooking tools to score the mirrors and cut them into circles.

The mirrors are very hard to cut, so we ended up using scissors to do the job. Warning: do not use your good ones. This stuff is tough!
You will want to cut them a little smaller than the pre-cut circles. It doesn't really matter if they are not perfectly round...

Because you will cover them with a top circle, whose center has been cut out. We used the scrapbooking tools again to make this "frame" perfectly round and centered by removing a circle from the center of your pre-cut circles. You will need one of these for each of the uncut circles. Make sense? take a look at the pictures:

Next, we glued the cut mirrors onto the pre-cut circles. (the solid ones)

Let them dry a little bit.

Then add another ring of glue around the mirror so that you can attach the frame top.(see why the roundness of the mirror isn't so important...)

It is sort of like making a sandwich. Like this:

This shot was just for fun. While we let them dry before we let the girls take over. :)

We assembled the petals. Every girl got one of each.

They glued them on (from the back) however they wanted to finish the mirror.

I would recommend putting these on the bathroom mirror or bedroom wall so the girls are looking into them often and hopefully reading the affirming words.


You could even put them on a wooden fan stick (painted green) so the girls could hold them.

I love spring crafts! 

Luckily, we have lots of chances to do these in Daisies. What is your favorite spring craft?