How to: Mothers Day Flowers

Step 1: Cut the tissue paper into several pieces and place the layers all together in a pile. 

Fold the pieces accordion style. Keep folding until the whole sheet of tissue paper is folded.

Step 2: Wrap the pipe cleaner around the center of the accordion folded paper.

Step 3: Fold the two sides of the paper together and wrap sticky tape around the base to hold it in place.

Step 4: Cut off the tops of the paper. This is important to get the sheets of the paper to seperate for the next few steps. Make sure to cut all the way through all layers so there is no layers that are still connected.

Step 5: Take one layer of the flower and pull it very gently down. Pull it as far as it will go but be careful not to pull it to hard because the tissue paper is so fine it is easy to tear. Although if you do tear a bit don’t give up! Finish it off because you might not even notice it in the end. 🙂

continue with step 5 until there is no more paper left. Alternate pulling down from one side and then the other to keep the flower as even as possible.

Step 6: once you have pulled out all of the segments of the flower and you have a nice fluffy flower you might need to trim some of the edges down. My flower, as you can see above, was a bit squished looking, more oval shape than a circle. I want mine to be circular. 🙂

Step 7: Colour the tips. I used an orange marker to colour the tips. I also went back over it with a yellow just to make the colour blend a bit better from white to orange…

TA DA!

Perfect little project for mothers day.

What is your favourite mothers day craft?