How to Make Paper Flowers
- Trace your child’s hand or have them trace their own.
- Cut out the hand print.
- Cut out the anther and stigma of the flower out of yellow construction paper.
- Fold the thumb in and then fold bottom left hand side of the hand print up towards the thumb.
- Wrap the end of the hand print that reaches past the folded thumb behind the hand.
- Glue or tape it down.
- Attach a stem made of green construction paper to the hand print lilly.
How to Make a Paper Tulip
- Start by cutting a piece of scrapbook paper or wrapping paper into a square.
- Then fold the square in half to make a triangle. Fold it so the fancy side of the paper is facing out.
- Take the right hand corner and fold it up at an angle. It should be point to about 11 o’clock on the paper.
- Then fold the left hand corner up towards about 1 o’clock on the paper. I hope the use of clock times isn’t confusing. I thought that thinking about where the hands would be on an analog clock would help you.
- Add a green construction paper stem.
How to Make a Tissue Paper Mum
- Place four sheets of tissue paper into a pile.Fold the tissue paper with a fan fold.
- Place a pipe in the behind the center of the folded tissue. I like fold about 1/4 of the pipe cleaner over the to the front and then twist it around the long end of the pipe cleaner. The twist needs to be done tightly.
- Use scissors to make thin cuts on both of the long ends of the tissue paper.
- Slowly pull up each layer of tissue paper to the center on each side of the pipe cleaner.
While I am showing you how to make three different types of flowers, I think that you could easily make one type of flower. A single flower bouquet would be lovely.
After you learn how to make paper flowers, you may want to create one of these other Mother’s Day gifts:
Mother’s Day Teacup Printable Craft and a Collection of Poems
Mother’s Day Poem and Fingerprint Craft
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I bet Pierce would enjoy doing this.
Oh, so pretty!! My daughter loves to make paper flowers. We may have to make some today.
Too cute!
What mom/grandma wouldn’t like a group of these for Mother’s Day???
Nice share. 🙂
So sweet! My girls would love making the handprint ones! :)-Ashley
That is so sweet and I know I would love receiving those. He did a great job.
Ah these are so precious and great ideas ! Yes I’d love it of course 🙂
I’m sending your photos on to my daughter
she will have her boys making these I’m
sure..
thanks for sharing
Sandy
These are GREAT!
What fun projects! Those would be perfect for mother’s day.
You are so crafty, love it!
Those are some clever ideas! Thanks for sharing them. I know they will spawn many paper flowers!
Awwhh! Reminds me of the Kleenex flowers we used to make to decorate cars after a wedding!
Once upon a time I made a bunch of these.
Hang on! Let me try this one! 😉
Very cute and crafty xx
Hugs,
Scudds
my granddaughters made these for me a few years back and i love them! they are right on my desk where i can see them every day…
Those are so cute! My kids would love to make those and my mom would love to receive them.
Tesa @ 2 Wired 2 Tired
These are beautiful! How sweet. I think I’ll try making some of these; it’ll be good therapy. HA!
what a great Mother;s Day craft!
Very clever. I might try these with my granddaughters. They would love to make a gift for mom!
How fun! I want to learn how to make duct tape flowers. They look so cute!
The flowers are adorable, and I’m sure JDaniel will be extra-proud to give his mother’s day gifts because they are handmade. The tulip ones are really pretty–I had never seen those before. I learned how to make paper mums when I was a child–we used different color 2-ply facial tissues and bobby pins I think to secure the middle. We added extra fluff to our creations by carefully separating the 2 layers of tissue.
You bet I would. Especially if one of my grandkids made it!
=)
how well I remember doing those accordion flowers in elementary school — it occurs to me that a guy who can create flowers is a good guy to have around.
Wow… I really like this Wonderful idea…
Great post for the letter W…
Thanks for sharing this With us…
A+
Oh, so pretty!! Thank you for sharing them at Crafty Moms Share Mother’s Day Gift Link Party!
What a sweet collection of DIY flowers. I especially love the hand print lily. Thanks so much for linking this post to Discover and Explore. I hope you’ll be back to share for our museum theme this week.