How to Make Paper Flowers
Make beautiful paper flowers in your favorite colors and patterns with this tutorial.
Equipment
- Hot glue gun and glue
Ingredients
- Patriotic scrapbook paper, preferably double-sided Medium-weight Scrapbook paper is best for making DIY easy paper flowers.
- Wooden skewers OR extra-long Lollipop sticks
- Button(s) or other embellishments for the centers
Instructions
- Out of your scrapbook paper, cut a square (~5"), then cut this in half diagonally to form two triangles
- Using one triangle, fold both ends into the center to meet in the middle as shown
- You should now have a perfect square.
- Fold down each corner as shown
- From the center, fold the paper so each center edge is now matched up with the outer edge
- Curl the paper so that each edge meets in the middle. Repeat these 6 steps 6 times to form 6 petals.
- Get out the hot glue gun and apply hot glue to your dowel rod/skewer/lollipop stick
- Glue each petal onto the skewer as shown
- Six petals glued onto the top of the skewer
- Hot glue a button onto the center to cover the top of the skewer
Notes
Please note, we do NOT recommend children helping with the hot gluing portion. Instead, get them involved in choosing the paper and arranging the finished flowers.