# 20 Paper Flower

Little darling wanted to make a paper flower.  So we did this project together. 

What you need:

2 Green color paper - 1 for the stalk and 1 for the leaf

1 Pink color paper

Pencil

Glue

Scissors

 

 1) Roll the green paper from the edge (either with a brush like above picture, or just roll it) and glue the end of the edge to form the flower stalk.

2) Draw some leaf shape and cut them out.

3) Slot it in between the rolled stalk.

 

 

4) Draw a spiral and cut it out

5) Draw a love shape and cut it out  (Fold the paper so that you may cut many love shapes)

6) Fold the spiral from the outer side till the inner to make a rose bud

7) Stick the love shape on the side continuously to form the flower

8) Finally stick the flower to the stalk (you may use cellophane tape to tape it if it doesn't hold well)

Well with this paper flower, you can also do something like this in a recycle plastic (that holds strawberries / fruits)

# 2 Cherry Blossom Flower

This cherry blossom flower is really lovely and presentable especially for Chinese New Year. So me and my little girl did this cherry blossom flowers together and tied on the tree branches. She then made all the tanglungs by herself and hang it on the tree.  I tied some red ribbons and prepared some leaves made from ribbons and here is how it looks like.. Niceeee? Well you can make many things out of this cherry blossom flowers not just for CNY.. am sure you can think of a lot of things from this ^v^

To make the flowers and the leaves, these are the materials that you need; color tissue papers (or you can use other types of paper eg. paper tissue from your local Art shop), green wire, green ribbons, ribbon scissors and wire scissors

Take 2 pieces of different color tissue papers and put on top of each other

Fold it like how you fold a fan at the middle or just accummulate the middle part until you get this ...hmm looks like a ribbon

 Then take a green wire and twine it in the middle and twist it and turn it, so to tighten it. The wire can just be 1/3 of the whole length if you just want to twine it to the tree branch, but if you want to make few stalks of flowers to put into a vase, then you may use the full length.  Use the wire cutter to cut the green wire.

 Above is how it looks like in the middle after twined.

Below, is how it looks like from the side

You may cut it to semi circle to make it smaller , depending on what size you want for your flower. Or you may even use your hands to just tear it ..this way it looks more like a flower ^v^

 This is how it looks after tearing it

Next, is to open up your little cherry blossom flower, softly ..layer by layer starting from the middle and finally to the outer layer and adjust it like a round shape

 Finally, till you get this 

How to make the leaves for your tree? Well just use the green ribbon and cut it out to be in this shape below and put the small little wire on it (if your ribbon is shinny on one side only, then put the wire on that side)

Then twine it the same way you twin the flower

These little ribbon leaves can then be added to your little tree or just twine it on the stalk of flower and you can finish up the stalk of flower with green tape

You can do a bunch of flowers for your vase, or make a little small one to stick on a birthday card, or just decorate your church with all these lovely flowers!  it's just inexpensive, but you just need some time to do it and enjoy the whole thing! ^v^

Look at the below,  you can even add a little butterfly to beautify your blossom flower plant

# 1 Paper cup flowers

Let's start with this simple paper cup flowers. These are the items you need ~ paper cup, scissors, color pen. 

Cut a straight line until there's 1 inch left at the bottom of the cup.  Repeat this by leaving 0.5 inch space between the lines.  If you would like to put some items into this flower cup, then ensure that you do not cut until too deep to the bottom.

This is how it'll look like.  Press all the paper downwards like this:

Then twist one of the paper to the back of the next paper beside:

 Repeat it till you finished all of them:

So you can see the flower is done and you just need to do some colouring on it, as you like or even put some ribbons for deco:

(Flower on the left is done by my little girl, age 6 and was given to my dear friend)

Or even have a play with your kids like this :) they'll just enjoy this

(Put a satay stick with cello tape at the back of the cup and you can have a standing flower)

With this, you can also create a bunch of them with beautiful colors in a plant pot as a gift. So the next time after using a paper cup, just don't throw it, but wash it and keep it for this ..support recycling :)