Paper flowers
You will need
- Scissors
- Tissue paper
- Scrap paper, thin coloured card
- Long pipe cleaner or length of florist wire
Instructions – tissue flower
- Start with 6 or 7 sheets of tissue paper (10 – 15cm square or rectangle will work)
- Fold your sheets in a concertina
- Snip each end with a triangle cut out (you can experiment with other shapes ie. frill no. 6 or round end no. 7)
- Wrap a pipe cleaner or florist wire in the centre of your folded paper, twist to fasten
- Carefully tease out the separate sheets and frills to make your paper flower
Instructions – card flower
- Start with a long sheet of coloured paper or thin card (approx 20cm x 6cm)
- 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)
- Curl up each of the snipped sections
- Fasten a pipe cleaner or florist wire through the first section
- Slowly spiral wrap your paper around the pipe cleaner
- Tie off the pipe cleaner/ wire at the end of your paper flower
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