Career Week and Dr. Seuss' Birthday

Did you know that this past week was National Career Week and March 2nd was Dr. Seuss' birthday?

And you're probably wondering what the 2 have in common. Not much except for the fact that I had the privilege to be a guest for a 1st Grade class to share about my career as a floral designer and to read some great Dr. Seuss books to them. After putting my creative juices to work, I decided to bring in a little floral design project for the kiddos to work on. In an effort to Floral Sense going green, I doctored up a project that used recycled materials you can find around your house.

Here's what I used:
An empty can (this one used to have Almond Roca in it) that we covered with paper to decorate ourselves. This was our vase.


Tissue paper (You know, the ones you save from gifts you've received, swearing that you'll use them for something one day? Well, now here's your chance) and pipe cleaners.


And some sticks (these sticks were saved from a fruit arrangement from 'Edible Arrangements' but you can use any type of stick you might have around the house).


All we did was take four squares of the tissue paper, pinch it in the middle and fluff it up.


With the pipe cleaner, we wired the bottom of our flower and twisted it onto a stick.


We threw our flowers in our can/vase thus, creating, a fab arrangement for the classroom!


If a class of first graders can make this, so can you. And Go Green in the process of it!

Happy Career Week and Happy Birthday Dr. Seuss!