Tissue Paper Flowers
Difficulty: Easy
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These flowers are quick to make and the children enjoy making them. Younger children may need some help with accordion-pleating the tissue paper.
Check out our great Mother's Day crafts and May Day crafts for more great ideas.
What you'll need:
- Pastel colored tissue paper
- Chenille stem
- Scissors
- Ruler
How to make it:
- Cut tissue paper into rectangles of desired size (5x7" is the size pictured).
- Stack 4-6 pieces of tissue paper. Use the same color or different colors.
- Accordion pleat the tissue paper working from the long side.
- Wind one end of the chenille stem around the middle of the accordion pleated tissue paper.
- Gently separate each layer pulling upwards toward the middle of the flower.
- Let the children make a couple of flowers and put them in a May Basket.
- Early on the morning of May 1st hang on your mother's door, a neighbor's door, a friend's, or anyone special to you.
- Remember, it's supposed to be a surprise!
