How to make paper flowers

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• Paper plate flowers
• Paper hyacinths
• Tissue paper poppy
• Paper hanging vine
• Paper flower bouquet

Paper plate flowers

You will need:

• Paper plates (4, but you can use as many as you want or have)
• A pencil
• Scissors
• Watercolour paint palette
• Paintbrushes
• Glue or stapler
• Marker pens, oil pastels or stickers/sequins

How to make paper plate flowers:

1. Take your paper plates and draw different flower shapes on them in different sizes
2. Cut the flower shapes out using scissors
3. Curl the petals of the paper plate flowers by curling each one around a pencil or marker pen
4. Paint each flower using a watercolour paint palette. Use whichever colours you like – get creative!
5. Once the paint has dried, staple or glue the flowers on top of each other (in size order with the largest on the bottom) — if using glue, wait for it to dry before moving onto the next part
6. Finish decorating the flowers with marker pens or stickers, or whatever is in your craft drawer at home

Credit: Pink Stripey Socks

Paper hyacinths

You will need:

• Assorted colours of paper
• Scissors
• Ruler
• Thin green construction paper/green straws
• Pencil
• Glue stick
• Wooden skewer/knitting needle

How to make paper hyacinths:

1. Using your ruler, cut out a strip of paper approximately 21.5cm x 5cm.
2. Mark 1cm from both edges of the paper and use a pencil to lightly draw a line across the paper
3. Using scissors, carefully snip the paper into strips that are about 6.5mm' wide, cutting up to the pencil line
4. Continue cutting until you've made it across the entire strip of paper —try to keep your cuts as straight and parallel as possible, but don't panic if they aren't perfect
5. Using a knitting needle or wooden skewer, carefully roll each strip — make sure the pencil line is on the BACK of the strip, you want to roll the strips away from the pencil line so it's not visible when you've completed the flower
6. Roll each strip as far as it will go
7. Continue rolling until you've rolled each piece along the entire length of the paper
8. To make the stem, if you're using green construction paper rather than green straws, use the following instructions:
   1. Cut out a strip 5cm x 20cm on the green construction paper
   2. Start rolling one of the corners diagonally
   3. Once you've started rolling the corner, glue the entire strip to help keep it together
   4. Keep rolling the green paper diagonally around itself to make a thin, stem-like tube
9. Add some glue to the back of the swirled up paper you made earlier
10. Place the paper over the thinner end of the stem/at the top of a straw, with the swirls pointing up and towards the outside
11. Start wrapping the swirled up paper around the stem so that it overlaps itself as you go
12. Try to get the paper as tight as you can around the stem until you reach the end of the swirled up paper strip — if you need to, add a little extra glue at the end to help keep it in place
13. To make the leaves, cut out a piece of green card about 5cm x 7.5cm
14. Fold the piece accordion-style along the long edge in roughly 6mm sections
15. Using scissors, cut out a leaf shape, leaving about 1.25cm at the bottom to give you room to glue it later
16. Unfold the card, then add some glue to the bottom of the leaves
17. Place one corner about 5cm below the flower on the stem, at a slight angle
18. Wrap it tightly around the stem as you press down the glue to keep it in place
19. Repeat the process in different colours to make a bouquet

Credit: One Little Project

Tissue paper poppy

You will need:

• Red tissue paper
• A ruler
• Scissors
• Green pipe cleaner
• Large black pom pom
• Super tacky glue

How to make a tissue paper poppy:

1. Cut your red tissue paper into 12 15cm x 15cm squares
2. Lay the squares evenly on top of each other and fold them up with a zig-zag fold
3. Take a green pipe cleaner and wrap it twice around the middle of the zig-zag folded tissue paper
4. Twist the pipe cleaner to secure it to the tissue paper
5. On each side of the zig-zag folded tissue paper, peel upwards each layer of tissue paper to form each petal
6. Once you have peeled each layer upwards, it will form a flower shape
7. Using your fingers to move the tissue paper petals, make a space in the middle of the flower
8. Using super tacky glue, stick down a large black pom pom in this space and leave to dry
9. Once dry, attach another pipe cleaner to the bottom of the first pipe cleaner wrapped around the tissue paper to make a long stem
10. Wrap another pipe cleaner around this one to make it nice and sturdy
11. Repeat to make a whole field (or bunch) of poppies

Credit: Baker Ross

Paper hanging vine

You will need:

• Green tissue paper
• Brown package paper
• PVA Glue/double-sided tape

How to make a paper hanging vine:

1. Fold the green paper on itself multiple times
2. Take some brown package paper and cut it into 20cm wide strips — the strips should be quite long — up to 180cm if you have enough paper
3. Take a few strips and twist them around each other — keep twisting until it's quite tight
4. Using PVA glue or double-sided tape, attach the leaves to the vines

Credit: Clearwater Cottage

Paper flower bouquet

You will need:

• Extra fine crepe paper in 10 colours
• Scissors
• 36cm florist wire
• PVA glue
• Craft pliers
• Bone folder

How to make a paper flower bouquet

1. Cut out three rectangles from pale green or yellow crepe paper
2. Cut fringing along the top edge of each rectangle
3. Take a length of florist wire and tie one of the ends into a small loop
4. Wrap the fringed rectangles around the loop, a piece at a time, then secure in place with glue
5. Fold a length of red crepe paper in half, then cut out about 20 petal shapes
6. Once you have cut out all of the petals, take one petal and shape it, curling the top with a bone folder and pulling the centre to form a cup
7. Repeat with the rest of the petals
8. Attach each petal onto the florist wire to surround the yellow crepe paper you made before, overlapping each petal slightly to create a peony shape
9. Hold the petals in shape while the glue dries
10. Fold another piece of red crepe paper in half then cut out 10 petals — these should be larger than the 20 you cut out before
11. Use the glue to attach the petals to the outside of the peony (make sure the first set of petals have dried first)
12. Cut out two long, thin leaves from green crepe paper
13. Pierce a small hole through the base of the leaf and thread this onto the florist wire and secure below the flower
14. Repeat with the other leaf
15. Cut out a star shape with seven edges from green crepe paper
16. Pierce a hole in the centre and thread it onto the florist wire, position it at the base of the flower and secure in place with glue
17. Repeat with different colours to create a full bouquet of flowers

Credit: Gathered

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