Paper flowers

You will need

  • Scissors
  • Tissue paper
  • Scrap paper, thin coloured card
  • Long pipe cleaner or length of florist wire

 

Instructions – tissue flower

  1. Start with 6 or 7 sheets of tissue paper (10 – 15cm square or rectangle will work)
  2. Fold your sheets in a concertina
  3. Snip each end with a triangle cut out (you can experiment with other shapes ie. frill no. 6 or round end no. 7)
  4. Wrap a pipe cleaner or florist wire in the centre of your folded paper, twist to fasten
  5. Carefully tease out the separate sheets and frills to make your paper flower

 

red tissue paper square
concertina folded tissue paper
cut a triangle into the end
pipe cleaner tied around the middle of folded tissue paper
fanning out the tissue paper
cutting slits into end of folded tissue paper
end of folded tissue paper cut on a curve

 

Instructions – card flower

  1. Start with a long sheet of coloured paper or thin card (approx 20cm x 6cm)
  2. About 1/2 cm in snip parallel to the short edge but don’t cut all the way across , leave about 1/2 cm . Do this all the way along your paper (making like a comb / frill)
  3. Curl up each of the snipped sections
  4. Fasten a pipe cleaner or florist wire through the first section
  5. Slowly spiral wrap your paper around the pipe cleaner
  6. Tie off the pipe cleaner/ wire at the end of your paper flower

 

rectangle piece of purple card
slits cut on long edge of card
curling the cut ends of card
laying the pipe cleaner on one end of the curled card
wrapping the curled card around the pipe cleaner
curled card fixed to pipe cleaner to make flower head

 

Other tips and ideas

  • Try out different size papers for a button hole carnation
  • Use recycled papers such as old books for the card flower

 

Download

Download instructions for paper flowers (pdf)