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Make Your Own Truffula Flower
Dr Seuss’s The Lorax is coming to London’s Old Vic this autumn. Suitable for ages 6 and above, this is the tale of one little Lorax and his friends as they set out on a mission to protect the earth and save the beloved Truffula Trees. To celebrate, we’re showing you how to make a Truffula Flower of your very own.
You will need: a recycled cereal box, scissors, a pencil or pen, a cup or similar size (to use as a stencil), a plate or similar size (to use as a stencil), glue and a recycled plastic bag
- Open up your cereal box to be flat with the brown side up. Draw around the cup to make a small circle.
- Draw your flower inside this circle. Your flower can have petals of any shape or size; try out some different shapes for petals, hearts, diamonds, ovals etc. Cut out your flower. This is the flower that will sit on the top.
- Using the remaining cereal box, draw around your plate to make a big circle. This large circle will be the base. Now draw your petals for your flower within the circle. Make your petals bigger than when you were drawing your petals for the small circle. Cut out your second flower. The centre of the large circle will be covered up, so don’t put any detail in the centre. You can use crayons, felt tip pens or paint to colour in your flowers if you would like to.
- Put a dab of glue in the centre of the large flower and put the smaller flower on top of it. You can pull up the petals of your flowers towards you to make them less flat and look more like a flower.
- Now cut a strip off a plastic bag to be about 30cm long and 7cm wide. Cut into the length width ways so you have a fringe like in the picture.
- Carefully using the glue, stick the strip from the plastic bag underneath the small top flower.
Now you have your Truffula flower; all made out of materials that would have been in your recycling! If you would like to add a leaf to your flower like we have, use the remaining cardboard from the cereal box to draw a spikey leaf, paint it green and stick the flower on top of it.
The Lorax loves trees and so do we – on your Truffula flower, you could use the leaf to write a message about why you love trees too. Tell the Old Vic your messages by tweeting @oldvictheatre with the #TheLorax