Tissue Paper Flowers With Pipe Cleaners
Wrap a green pipe cleaner around the stubs and leave the rest unwrapped to make a stem.
Tissue paper flowers with pipe cleaners. Multi color tissue paper pipe cleaners scissors. To make a small flower petal on your flower simply twist the pipe cleaner. Lay your pipe cleaner down. Fold the pipe cleaner over the folded tissue paper making a tight fit around the tissue.
12 sheets of tissue paper 20 x26 or 20 x30 12 pipe cleaners or other flexible wire scissors a vase optional. Place the center of the accordion rectangle about 2 inches down from the top of the pipe cleaner. Keep doing this for each layer sort of turning as you go so each layer is scrunched. Then fold the sheets together in an accordion pattern making a strip of paper that s about 1 inch thick.
Accordion fold the tissue paper. Scrunch up the first layer of your tissue paper at the base where it connects to your pipe cleaner. This will make your flower stem. In this craft your child will get lots of practice with fine motor skills.
Create a loop with the fold of the pipe cleaner. Cut variety of tissue paper colors in the shape of a square. Loop the stem around the middle of the folded tissue paper strip. Fold it in half but not all the way.
Now onto making our flower. All you need is tissue paper pipe cleaners and scissors. Start wrapping it tightly around the petal base moving downward. Adjust what you need based on how many flowers you want to make.
To make a beautiful dahlia out of tissue paper stack 12 sheets of any color tissue paper on top of each other. Watch your child enjoy making tissue flowers bloom. Stack the colors on top of each other than cut to ensure they are the same size. Try to use 5 7 pieces of tissue paper.
Remember that the folds don t have to be exact for the flower to take shape and be beautiful. Hook a green pipe cleaner around the base of your petals. When you reach the bottom straighten the green pipe cleaner out. It s easiest to make the flowers in multiples of three.
One piece of tissue paper makes one flower. Tissue paper of different colors. If you want a large decorative flower be sure to use paper that s 13 by 20 inches. Twist the pipe cleaner onto itself to hold the tissue paper strip in place.
This is going to be your flower and your stem. The stem of you flower the pipe cleaner is vertical. To ensure the stem is centered fold the tissue strip in half and place the green pipe cleaner or chenille stem at the fold. Twist it around itself to secure your tissue paper circles onto you pipe cleaner.
Ribbon to decorate the vase scotch tape to attach the.