Flowers to Honor Your Worrywart Mom

BouquetMother’s Day is coming soon and with it comes a chance to honor the Worrywart in your life with a bouquet of homemade tissue paper flowers. Hypoallergenic and thorn-free, these flowers are a great gift to make for moms of all kinds.

These flowers are easy for even the littlest hands to create, starting with a circle of tissue paper. Make poppies, daisies and carnations!

While the flowers look best if you use floral tape (available at craft and dollar stores) to attach them to their green pipe cleaner stems, masking tape works just as well and can be colored green with markers.

What You Need

  • Colored Tissue Paper
  • Coffee Can Lid
  • Pencil
  • Green Pipe Cleaners
  • Scissors
  • Floral Tape or Masking Tape & a Green Marker

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What to Do

Layer two pieces of tissue paper on top of one another. Use the coffee can lid to trace a circle. Cut the circle out.

FlowerStep1To make a poppy, put the tip of the pipe cleaner stem through the center of the circle and fold it over a little (about 1/4″). Pinch the bottom of the tissue paper circle and use tape to secure it. Twist the stem while you tape it.
 
 
 
 
FlowerStep5To make a daisy, fold the circle in half. Fold it in half again and then one more time.Technically, you will have folded the circle into eighths (like the picture). Use your scissors to cut around the top of the circle, creating a petal shape. Open the flower. It should look like a daisy. Separate the two layers of tissue paper. Place one flower on top of the other so that the petals alternate. You can add a smaller tissue paper flower in a different color for contrast. Put the tip of the pipe cleaner stem through the center of the flower and fold it over a little (about 1/4″). Pinch the bottom of the tissue paper circle and use tape to secure it. Twist the stem while you tape it.

FlowerStep6To make a carnation, fold the circle into eighths like you would for the daisy. Cut the petal shape. Then take the scissors and cut strips into the top of the petal (see picture). Unfold it. Put the tip of the pipe cleaner stem through the center of the flower and fold it over a little (about 1/4″). Pinch the bottom of the tissue paper circle and use tape to secure it. Twist the stem while you tape it. Fluff out the strips to create the carnation look. For complete visual instructions on how to make a carnation, see below.

There’s no right way to make a tissue paper flower. The more crumpled the paper is by tiny fingers, the more beautiful it will be. Make half a dozen, tie them with a piece of ribbon or yarn and give your someone special a bouquet that will last for a long time.

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