How to Preserve Dried Sunflowers

When you preserve dry flowers, you're able to use them in a wide array of crafts -- unless they're large flowers that are prone to breakage like the sunflower. Knowing how to preserve a dried sunflower doesn't take a lot of time, but it does limit what you can do with the floral piece. One way of preserving dried sunflowers is to encase them for display in jewelry, wall art and other similar craft projects.

Casting resin set
Disposable plastic cup
Wooden tongue depressor
5-inch-by-5-inch mold, 1-inch depth
Sunflower
Scissors

Instructions

- 1
  Pour 1/8 cup of each liquid compound from the resin casting kit into a plastic cup. Stir it briskly for one full minute. The resin casting sets are easy to find in craft and art-supply stores, and they generally come in kits of two bottles for mixing at the time of casting.
- 2
  Pour the gooey clear liquid into the mold you have selected. This can be a square, circle or any shape of mold that suits your tastes.
- 3
  Snip the stem and excess foliage from the dried sunflower. Leave only the blossom and one or two leaves.
- 4
  Press the dried sunflower face-down into the setting resin. Let the flower sink into the resin without pushing it in so deep that the substance gets on your fingers. Do not touch the resin. Set the mold in a dry place out of reach of disturbances for 20 minutes.
- 5
  Pop the encased, perfectly preserved sunflower from the mold.

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