Gather all your supplies. Basecoat the front and sides of the jumbo craft sticks with yellow acrylic craft paint. Set aside to dry and apply a second coat, if necessary.

Once your sticks are dry, measure and cut 16 jumbo craft sticks in half with scissors.

Download and print the Sunflower Pattern, then cut out with scissors.

Trace the center of the Sunflower onto brown craft foam. Cut out with scissors making sure to cut inside the traced lines for a clean, finished project.

You could also use heavy weight colored cardstock or cardboard instead of craft foam for this project.

Starting at the 12, 3, 6, and 9 o’clock positions, attach half craft sticks to the center of the Sunflower with a glue gun and glue sticks.

Add four additional craft sticks in between the original four.

Continue by gluing eight additional half craft sticks to the center of the Sunflower.

Fill in the remaining spaces with half craft sticks, until the Sunflower is full with petals.

Flip the completed Sunflower over and attach a variety of shapes and sizes of black buttons (or dark brown ones) with a glue gun a glue sticks. If you do not have buttons, you could also use rhinestones, pom poms, small dots from a paper punch or just color them on.

Basecoat the front and sides of 2 jumbo craft sticks with light green acrylic craft paint. Set aside to dry and apply a second coat, if necessary.

Measure and cut one jumbo craft stick in half with scissors.

Attach the full jumbo craft stick to the back of the Sunflower for the stem, with a glue gun and glue sticks. Glue the half craft stick Sunflower leaves to the stem.