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Paper flowers

DIY SNOWDROPS

lovely snowdrops made from pumpkin seeds, some plasticine and some green cables.

Spring BOUQUET

Do you remember these flowers from Christmas? .... I was thinking of making them again in spring colors.

INSTRUCTION:

PISTACCIO SHELL Flowers

“After each holiday I find myself amidst various types of leftover materials, They seem useless but I can’t bring myself to throw them away – I know they still have at least one more life ahead of them. Take pistaccio shells, for example. I like their almost-perfect boat shape, I like their color…"

Paper Rope SPRING FLOWERS

These beautiful spring flowers were made from paper rope.

You will need about 1 m of paper rope to make one flower.

INSTRUCTIONS

To make the petals, cut out a lenght of paper rope. Use your fingers to spread the paper.

To make a pair of petals, twist the rope in the middle and fold the ends under the shape. Use your fingers to make the bulges. You don’t have to add any glue.

After you have prepared three pairs of petals, join them in the middle with a piece of paper rope or with strong glue to make a flower. Shape the centre from a different pieces of paper rope and glue it in the middle.

To make this type of flower, you only need to prepare two elements and tie them together to make the desired shape. Make the handle from green paper rope that has been opened, covered with glue and rolled back.

Paper HYACINTHS

Let us introduce our paper hyacints – they are easy enough for children to make them as a gift for Mom. What can be more beautiful than a flower made by little hands (sometimes a little adult help may be needed).

The stem was made from a roll of green paper that has been secured with glue.

To make the flower itself, cut an A4 sheet of paper in 4, crosswise. Fold each part lenghtwise in two and snip repeatedly along the fold. When the strips are ready, put some glue along the other end  and start winding them around the stem. After you finish gluing each strip, try to fluff up the ‘flowerets’ to add volume to your flower.

PAPER FLOWERS

Cut out different-sized flower shapes from colored sheets of paper. It’s better if their petals have tapered ends so you can fold the ends with the scissors.

Glue the shapes together from the largest to the smallest ones.

Paper DAFFODILS

 All you need is a drinking straw. two paper squares in white and yellow and a little paper circle.

FELT FLOWERS

Тhese felt flowers are both eye-catching and easy to make. You may use them to decorate hair elastics, plastic hairbands or, as we did, kids’ boots (to make them match the coat)

Cut out four identical felt squares.

Fold each one in four and round up the edges to make a clover shape.

Fold each piece in two, Overlap the pieces like you would cl0se a cardboard box – with each piece going both over and under its neighbors.

Use a needle or a hot glue gun to secure the elements together. Twist a thin strip of felt into a coil and sew it in the middle.

Your flowers are ready:)

Color-In PAPER VASE

Believe it or not, the total amount of time it took me to make this vase before coloring was 5-6 minutes.

First we made the flower cups from an egg carton. We used two elements for each flower, nesting them inside one another and securing them with glue. A drinking straw made the stem; it was later covered with toilet paper and secured with masking tape. We used the leftover egg carton to make leaves which we also attached with masking tape.

The vase itself is an empty toilet paper roll. We glued it on a cardboard base to make it more stable. We put the flowers in and added scraps of paper so the flowers would not sway while we were coloring them.

You can now let the child do the fun part.

Autumn Flowers BOUQUET

The idea is not new (I couldn’t find the original source but I know that many people will help me), but that didn’t stop us from making those beautiful leaf roses and add to our collection of fall activities. You have to choose leaves that are soft and pliable, not dry- we picked ours from the trees in the park.

Fold each leaf as shown on the photo above. Start winding carefully at one end.

After you wind the leaf into a roll, place the next leaf and roll it again, making sure it’s not too tight.

When you make a beautiful rose, tie it with a strong piece of string. Use several roses to make a pretty bouquet.

Toilet Roll SPRING FLOWER

An easy flower for your kids to color. You will need 4 empty toilet rolls. Fold three rolls in two and staple them together to make a flower. Add another folded roll on a wooden skewer (to make the stalk and leaves) and your flower is ready to be colored.