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Make a flower from colored paper with your own hands. DIY paper flowers. Decorative flower garlands

Valentina V. Sayasova

Hello dear colleagues and guests of MAAM! I bring to your attention the result of my experiment on making flowers from paper. Any celebration in kindergarten requires additional decorations and attributes. The options I have proposed will help you quickly, inexpensively prepare a decoration on the wall, or maybe (if you attach an elastic band) a flower on the hand for a girl performing a dance with a flower, or., But this is already your imagination!

Flowers are vulnerable and desirable.

Flowers are beautiful and delicate.

How sad it will be on the planet

Without bright drops of beauty!

And for work we need:

sheets of white and colored double-sided paper, scissors, a stapler and paper napkins.

We will start the work by cutting paper into strips 2-3 cm wide (you can try wider). I started my experiment with white paper,

Then she folded the strips and stapled them together.


Here's what happened


(At this time, the guys from the older group joined my work and one head is good, but ten is better! Many new proposals, ideas, and the work began to be done faster)


For chamomile, it's normal, but what if we take colored paper


And let's combine white and colored blanks and two colored ones!



That's much better! A?





And we were preparing for Shrovetide and the flowers came in handy!



Thank you for the attention! Good luck everyone!

Related publications:

"Shrovetide" made of paper (master class) Required materials and tools: Colored paper or paper for the printer - 2 sheets.

What kind of stars are these on the coat and on the scarf, All through, cut, and take - water in your hand? Well, of course, snowflakes! Many people know how to cut.

A wonderful holiday is approaching - Mother's Day. The children and I made vases with flowers for our mothers. Cut out 4 circles of different colors.

Dear colleagues! I bring to your attention a master class on making flowers from crepe paper with your own hands. Flowers.

Soon a holiday - Mother's Day. It is on this day that our mothers receive congratulations, on this day we pay attention to our mothers and grandmothers.

(part 1) It can be musical and gives joyful feelings. Both jubilee and wedding - sometimes full of skilful poems. Take it - smiles.

I continue to share with you my original ideas for making handmade greeting cards for all occasions.

Good afternoon, today I am finally uploading a large selection of master classes on the topic of paper flowers. Here are the most interesting ways to make paper flowers. We will make a variety of flowers - flat and voluminous - from corrugated paper and from thick colored paper. I will show each craft step by step in photos and I will give as much as possible detailed instructions to each flower made in one way or another. And also I will stencils- templates of silhouettes of flowers. All the crafts I have collected are laid out in order from simple to complex... First of all, we will take on the study of the techniques of folding paper flowers the MOST CLEARED (those that are easy to understand and repeat ourselves) ... and gradually move on to MORE COMPLEX and painstaking instructions (to prefabricated detailed flowers and to the origami technique). And I also uploaded a special article dedicated to different ways to make a paper rose - here is a link to it.

And, for teachers (teachers and educators) I made an article with simple children's handicrafts COLORS, which can be done in the classroom at school and kindergarten from paper and other materials:

I deliberately decided to do so big a selection of paper flowers in one place - so that you can immediately find a suitable scheme for assembling a flower for THAT PAPER YOU HAVE, and for the task that you want to solve with paper flowers (flower craft as a gift for mom, decoration of a birthday party with voluminous flower arrangements, wedding decoration, decor for cards or gift bags).

The only thing that I did not write in the body of this article is ROSES FROM PAPER. I found ways to make a voluminous rose so much that I had to put these crafts in a separate article on the same site, it will be called so "Roses from paper - 20 ways to make yourself."

But before proceeding to the master classes themselves, I want to make you fall in love with the very idea of ​​paper flowers. I want even casual visitors to this web page to have itching hands and catching fire in their eyes. And I want to awaken in you delight and a burning desire to make a flower with your own hands. For this magic to arise ... so that your soul also spreads its petals and blooms ...

Let's see what piece of life a flower you make can decorate. Here are examples of how a casual table setting can become very beautiful and solemn with lush floral crafts.

Also, large paper flowers made of crepe or corrugated paper are used for decorative purposes. for decoration of the celebration- a wedding hall, children's birthday party, an incendiary party. They are mounted on the wall or on the backs of chairs, tied to window handles.

But such large flowers can be made from A4 paper (office format) or from a roll of corrugated crepe paper.

Photographers and photo studios also use voluminous large paper flowers as exclusive props for staged photographs.

And you can make such a large paper flower simply - as a gift for Mother's Day, or for March 8th. Nobody has ever given your mom such a gift. Will be remembered for a long time. And you can take a picture of your mother right away with this flower - she will proudly post this photo on her page in the social network.

Ordinary plastic combs, headbands and metal hairpins can also be decorated with voluminous paper flowers. This is how we get dressed up jewelry for hairstyles for a wedding or a party.

Miniature paper flowers can decorate handmade cards, and other crafts using the scrapbooking technique (such as these delicate corrugated paper pansies).

Also, a DIY paper flower is the best decoration for gift box... And not expensive in terms of money. A fluffy gift ribbon is much more expensive than a couple of sheets of colored or white office paper - a few scissors and a paper orchid or a delicate pink wild rose bloom on your package.

And the flowers themselves can be great independent gift... If you arrange your work in the form of a basket, or a decorative panel (as in the photo with colored paper poppies).

If you learn how to make paper flowers with your own hands, you can use this talent. in many areas of life. It will become simple and easy for you to decorate a hall for any holiday, decorate a family celebration at home or beautifully arrange gifts for loved ones and friends, or entertain the neighbour's kids by organizing an interesting craft with a master class.

METHOD # 1

FLOWERS-LAYERS made of paper

Flowers made in this way, I decided to call "Puffs" because their construction principle is the same as that of puff pastry... Thin layers of floral silhouettes overlap... And each layer is given convex volume(or faceted relief), and due to this, the flower looks lush and voluminous.

Here in the photo below we see a step-by-step master class for beginners on creating such a voluminous dahlia flower... It is the dahlia - not to be confused with the aster, the petals of the aster are narrower and each has a facet (a relief fold like on trousers).

So ... let's take a closer look at the photo of the flower craft below. Here the trick is that paper is cut layer outlines- each circuit has six petals, and differs from its counterparts only in size. That is, the shape of the stencil is the same - only the size is different.

Before gluing, each cut paper bend the silhouette in order to give him a natural form. We start gluing and assembling the paper dahlia from small middle layers to bigger and bigger ones.

Of course, you have a QUESTION:“And how to cut such even size petal circles-layers.

ANSWER: Here is the most simple and quick way make such a flower with your own hands of a novice master. It does not require searching for a stencil template, but allows you yourself, without any measuring instruments (compasses and rulers), to get geometrically even petal details for a paper flower.

  1. We take a sheet of paper and glasses and glasses different radius... We outline them on a piece of paper.
  2. We cut out the resulting rounds, fold each round in four and again in half (as when cutting out a snowflake). And on such a folded into a triangle we draw the outlines of two petals (like a heart).
  3. We cut this contour with scissors (see photo below) - deepen the cutout in the middle of the heart - unfold it and get a petal layer.

Because our circles are of different sizes - then we will get the petal layers different in size... We set the relief, add it together, add a yellow middle stamen (we will talk about stamens just below).

Such a delicate flower can be strung on a wire (make a stalk) and give a paper bouquet for Mother's Day to your mother.

ANSWER: An ordinary round stick (pencil or pen, or knitting needle) can serve as a stamp for imprinting relief on the petals. Here's how you can do it yourself, you can clearly see in the photo-craft of the flower below.

The flower assembly scheme is the same as in the previous one (see step-by-step photos).

In the technique of PAPER LAYER you can make a variety of voluminous flowers (anemones, poppies, asters, dahlias, roses). The evidence is in the photo below.

You see - the same "puff" method - but completely different flowers are obtained. And all due to the fact that silhouettes of paper petal layers DIFFERENT IN ITS OUTLINE.

And do not forget that not only the contour (silhouette, shape of the petal) is important ... but also the RELIEF of the petals is also important. It is precisely the correct relief that turns flat outlines into living convex layers of a future flower.

For relief we need round sticks of various thicknesses (thin knitting needles, toothpicks, thick round-side markers, felt-tip pens, spherical perfume caps, or chupa-chups). Any items that will help set the shape.

So that the relief fits neatly on thick paper- it may need to be slightly moistened before work (sprinkle from a pultivizer or hold on a wet towel). Try it and see how it works best - dry or wet.

And here for you ready-made templates paper puff flower. Flower stencils are already of several sizes. Can you right now put a sheet of paper on the glowing screen and trace with a pencil these silhouettes, which are visible from the screen onto your sheet of paper (this is my favorite way copy the template without any printer - not every home has a printing device).

You can also resize any template using a computer mouse.

Look - in the photo below I give you a template silhouette. Silhouette ONLY ONE size... Do you want to get this silhouette different sizes- to make a multi-layered paper craft flower.

To resize this silhouette, you press with one hand on the keyboard buttonCtrl, and while holding this button down, turn the mouse wheel with your other hand - here and there. And from this action of yours, everything that is now drawn on your screen increases or decreases, depending on where you turn the wheel - from yourself or towards yourself.

Try it now- press and twist. See how the stencil-art image below is resized? In this way you can fit the template to any size right on the computer screen and trace it with a pencil on a piece of paper placed on your monitor screen. This is the fastest way to get the outlines of any flower stencil at once in any size we need.

Here are curly templates for future paper flowers - and you can change the size of the picture yourself. And you yourself can design and create any flower from paper with your own hands.

Let's also take a closer look at interesting additions to such flaky colors.

How to make a stump

in flaky paper flowers.

Here is an interesting step-by-step lesson below where we see how a stamen is created step by step for a multi-layered paper flower.

How to arrange

large inflorescence

on one stalk.

And I would also like to show here another one tricky and simple trick which allows you to do a whole inflorescence of flowers on one stem... In nature, such flowers are often found where many cups of flowers nest in one place and have common central stem.

It is such a craft flower that will now demonstrate the step-by-step master class in the photo below.

  1. Cut out a mop of stalks with a common round base from green thick paper (or cardboard). On this round base we glue double-sided tape.
  2. We twist a tube from a newspaper and wrap it with green paper. We glue the stem-tube to the round base - twisting it around the stem.
  3. We make flowers (from two red layers and one black stamen). We glue each flower on its stem. We glue wide leaves to the central stem-leg. It turns out a very beautiful stem-bouquet made of paper.

How to make a layered flower

WITH ASYMETRICAL petals.

But in the photo below we can see from which layers the ORCHID paper flower is created with our own hands.

In a glass of water dilute a drop of green paint- we get light green water. We moisten the white parts of the orchid with this water, they become white-green (just like in nature).

Further while the pale green petals are still wet, we apply lines of purple paint on them - on wet paper the lines themselves slightly blur - an uneven blurred color is obtained (exactly like a real orchid).

The middle part of the orchid - upper layer we also make it green ... and along the very edge (right along the cut of the paper) we paint it in bright purple. Thus, when we lift this top layer up, then the purple edges just stick out with their color upwards imitating the position and color of the shaggy central petals of the orchid.

The same principle is used to create various asymmetrical craft flowers... Let's remember what other flowers do not have circular symmetry in their cup ... that's right, these are ANYUTIN'S EYES (photo below).

  1. Lower layer of blue petals (only 2 pieces with the location in the upper side).
  2. Later layer of blue petals (also 2 pieces spread out to the sides).
  3. And the third top layer in the form just one white petal.
  4. Then we smear the central part of the flower with yellow, draw the central lines with a pencil. From crumpled paper we make yellow balls of stamens (or from plasticine).

A simple hand-made craft that even a child can do. The main thing is to prepare in advance the templates that the child will circle on colored paper.

Volumetric puff flower

from THIN paper.

We do such techniques as "different sizes of layers" and "work on folding the relief on paper petals" only when we use ordinary DENSE COLORED PAPER

But if you make handicrafts-flowers from CREPE, CORRUGATED MINT PAPER, then you do not need to set the relief there. The very texture of the paper will make it possible to make a fluffy volumetric flower.

Moreover, the corrugated structure of the paper allows you not to even bother getting DIFFERENT SIZE LAYERS. That is all layers of a flower can be the same size... Here are the workshops on paper flowers below just clearly prove this.

See? All layers of the flower are the same size. We pierce the middle of the layers folded in half with a hole punch (or a needle and thread, or fasten it with a stapler). Expand the flower and fluff its layers into a fluffy pompom. These are very beautiful large paper flowers.

This is perhaps the easiest and lightning-fast way to make a flower with your own hands. It turns out to be big, lush, rich and expressive.

If we choose napkins of two colors - and apply them with alternating colors, we will get a play of halftones in each layer, and our flower will look like a rose.

You see, in the method below, we make identical silhouettes from napkins of two colors (in shape and size like twin brothers). Put a piece of cardboard with two holes under the bottom (like a button ... however, cardboard can be replaced with a button). And we thread the threads into the holes and pierce through all the layers of the napkin. We tie a knot in the middle of the flower - and with our hands we fluff up all the corrugated layers of the craft.

Think for yourself how you can diversify and complement this airy napkin flower. You can also add border color- to do this, slightly stain the cut napkin silhouettes around the edges with an office marker.

Turn on your imagination ... and give her plenty of fun over the napkins. No one has a shortage of tea and napkins. And suddenly you will give birth to your own designer flower.

And in the same way, red carnations are made. Also cut out from the napkin are identical rounds with a scalloped edge - and deep cuts on the petal parts. And then they just lay on top of each other with a drop of glue in the center ... or instead of glue in the center we pierce them with a stick (on the same it will be a stalk. A beautiful hand-made flower with your own hands on February 23 for dad, or on Victory Day for grandfather.

And exactly according to the same principle as carnations (in the step-by-step lesson above), Lingieri's terry daffodils are also made. Here they are in nature - lush and voluminous.

Spring paper flowers are a good gift for mom on March 8th. And now you will find out how easy it is to make them yourself.

And here's how you can make them from dyed paper napkins. We put a stack of napkins on top of each other - fold in a quarter - in a triangle - cut off the edges with a serrated semicircle. We paint the top napkins in a bright yellow color, and the middle layers of napkins in a light yellow color, leave the bottom layer white.

Now about the material. Daffodils are gorgeous, you say, but where to get these paper colors (pale yellow and bright yellow) ?. Here, I tell you, there are 2 ways at once - 1) paint white paper napkins in 2 shades of yellow ... or 2) get a pale shade of yellow from bright yellow crepe corrugated paper.

INSTRUCTION No. 1. How to paint a white paper napkin.

ANSWER: We paint the napkin in a straightened form - tinted water. We paint in a glass of water and pour it on a straightened napkin. We are waiting for the natural drying of the napkin (about a day).

INSTRUCTION No. 2. How to make light yellow from bright yellow corrugated paper.

ANSWER: Take crepe yellow paper - put it on a wet towel - put a dry white napkin on top. We iron it with a flat iron - bright crepe paper gives off its moisture to a dry napkin, and, together with moisture, gives off part of the color. And we get already PALY YELLOW crepe paper. This way we can change the shades of crepe corrugated paper.

As you can see, everything is solvable - if you turn on your head and think ... and try to experiment. Knowledge often comes from experience (even if this path is jumbled). One failed experience can be the source of several ideas at once. I somehow got the crepe paper wet, ruined the craft - but then I saw that when soaked the crepe paper loses its color. And once I spilled some water for washing brushes on a paper napkin - and it turned into a delicate, even color. So from two jambs - I got 2 color change experiments for delicate and thin paper textures.

Well, it was all about the FIRST WAY of making paper flowers with your own hands. I deliberately made this first chapter of our article so detailed and detailed so that you immediately understand a simple and important truth:

Even one single way can have MULTIPLE CONTINUES ... numerous options ... endless designs. And you yourself can become an author - and create your own flower from paper, made in the same way of "curly layers, superimposed on each other ».

Now let's look at the next way to make flowers from colored paper with our own hands.

METHOD # 2

Paper flowers

TWISTED IN A PIPE.

We have been familiar with this method of creating flowers since childhood. We all made classic flower crafts in school or kindergarten. by February 23 - red carnations made from crumpled crepe paper... They twisted a strip of paper around a toothpick, wrapped the twist with a piece of green paper and fluffed up a bunch of flowers.

And it never occurred to us that inside this primitive method there is a recipe for not only a modest clove.

This way " twisting crepe paper into a roll " can give birth to completely different volumetric and flat flowers. It all depends on how we changed the PAPER STRIP EDGE SHAPE. Depending on its pattern, we get paper flowers that are completely different in design.

Here's a photo proof. See?

Different edge gives different flowers- disheveled aster, neat chamomile, chrysanthemums. Even roses can be made in this way (but roses will be discussed in a separate article - in detail and in detail as befits a queen of flowers).

And not only from soft corrugated (crepe) paper, you can make craft flowers using this ROLL technique.

Here you are in the photo below - an example of paper flowers in the same roll-up technique FROM CONVENTIONAL HEAVY COLORED PAPER (office double-sided colored paper).

Here's a simple job and a very simple instruction.

  1. A narrow strip of paper was twisted onto a thin rod (or toothpick) (to make the middle of the flower).
  2. And then to this roll center was added a wrapping of a wider tape, already cut along the edge into strips-petals.
  3. And the petals are folded to the side - like a spreading umbrella.

AND IF THIS SIMPLE TWISTING TECHNIQUE ADD TRACTION TO THE EXPERIMENT, THEN YOU CAN GET NEW PAPER COLOR DESIGNS.

For example, what if ... not just bend these petals to the sides with a flat chamomile-spread, but slightly twist the tip of each petal inward (as we cover the curls in the morning) - and we will already get a voluminous lush ASTRA.

And what if ... to make a strip for twisting with DIFFERENT WIDTH SECTIONS. We see the result of this idea in the photo-diagram below.

  1. A narrow strip (1 cm wide) for the middle stamen (we wind it in a tight roll on a toothpick).
  2. Next, we wind a petal strip (with a fringed edge) 2 centimeters wide on this roll.
  3. And then we wind a petal strip 2.5 cm wide ...
  4. and then a petal strip 3 cm wide.

And thanks to the different widths of the stripes, we get a flower-roll in which the height of the petals increases from the center to the edges.

As you can see, in this simple roll-to-roll technique, you can and should do EXPERIMENTS. Let's continue to encourage our inquisitive mind and decide on another dashing idea ...

WHAT IF, cut the fringe not straight, but INSERT... And what if ... this oblique fringe is not cut along the edge SECTION, and along the edge of the FOLD (that is, bend the strip in half along its entire length, and cut this fold line obliquely into the fringe, and then twist it in this form.

We see the result in the photo below - an amazing aster with spirally twisting carved perforated petals. A beautiful hand-made flower - it looks like a difficult job, but making it with your own hands is simple and quick.

These shaggy flowers with oblique petals can be used as shaggy stamens for other flowers.

Here's how, for example, in this master class in the photo below. See?

There, too, a cut of a bent strip is made along the OBYE FINGER ... and an orange shaggy stamen is formed - which is needed to decorate the center of the paper aster.

By the way, the paper aster itself with the photo below is made in a very original way in its simplicity.

  1. The base of the aster is a puff (a multi-rayed star with chopped rays).
  2. Each ray in the puff is bent with a slate ruler into a sharp arrow (like on trousers).
  3. Layers are superimposed on each other - we get a lush flower.

And just the stamen inside this voluminous flower is made using the SCIED FINGER technique, which we just talked about.

This roll-to-roll technique can be combine with a regular petal puff (Method # 1 from this article).. Yes - you can - because it occurs in nature. God Himself once came to this idea - and created the flowers of the VELVETS. And we will embody this method of combining a roll and a puff on paper. (see how this is done in the infographic below).

In roll technology the fluffy center of the flower is performed. And in the technique "Puff»The lower petal part of the marigold flower is made of paper (templates with five-leaf silhouettes). Photo-instructions for assembling a flower below.

And here is a rosehip flower - where the stamen-middle is also combined using the roll-twist technique and 2 petal layers. By the way, they can be made and large sheets of A4 format and pasted on the wall - and your living room will be transformed. Buy a pack of red office paper in stationery and play interior designer. All the neighbors will run to plow with delight.

And here is a flower craft where the roll technique is also used to create a fluffy stamen panicle, and the side petals are simply glued separately to the lower layers of a fluffy stamen panicle.

It produces large sunflower-like flowers made from crepe paper.

In a similar technique, ROLL-BUNDLE + SEPARATE PETALS, a daffodil flower is also made with your own hands.

But these flowers are EITHER LILAC, EITHER SALVIA - with a long stem of inflorescences are also made using the roll technique.

Yes, yes, this is also a common roll-to-roll technique, with the only difference that a strip of paper is not rolled up into a tube, but wrapped around a spiral roll around a long stick.

Here in the photo below is a master class of this lush paper flower.

  1. A wide strip of crepe (corrugated) paper cut into a long fringe.
  2. We wrap the fringes with a toothpick(or a knitting needle) - and we get curly hair along one edge of the tape.
  3. We take a long wooden skewer and wrap our paper tape with a curly fringe around it - the wrapping begins from the upper end of the wooden skewer and goes down in a spiral.
  4. Under the flower we do green winding stalk-skewer and glue wide green leaves to this stem.

Paper rose flowers

ROLLING method.

In the roll technique, you can quickly roll a rose out of paper. We will have a separate article on paper roses. But I will give two master classes right here - because they touch on the roll technique of creating flowers.

Here is the first step-by-step paper rose master class... Thick paper is used here and in order for the petal parts to have the geometry of broken pink petals, you need this dense paper strip, in the process of rolling into a roll, MINIMIZED AND ROLLED around itself.

And don't mind these centimeters... Just take the very essence of this manual. Cut a strip of paper from the draft and try to twist it into a rose, just bending the strip as God wants you to - the paper itself will tell you where to bend and turn it.

You will find many other options for making a paper rose from different types of paper in the article

And here's another way roll a roll of paper so that it looks like a rose. For such a roll, we need a paper strip NOT OF A STRAIGHT SHAPE, but to make a strip of paper IN A SPIRAL SHAPE.

It is enough for this draw a snail on a sheet of cardboard(the curve is uneven, it doesn't matter which one). This drawn spiral will be the template for our paper flower.

Now this spiral line need to be cut, and then start rolling the roll NOT FROM THE MIDDLE OF THE SPIRAL ... but, on the contrary, FROM ITS EDGE. And a paper rose will appear in our hands by itself.

My advice is, do not take lacquered slippery glossy paper for such a craft.- such an elastic rose will strive to turn around or the spiral circles will slip out of the flower bed. It is better to choose rough paper or not very thick cardboard - this way the rose will better keep its shape.

Paper flowers

Method number 3

In the POMPONA technique.

Here's an even faster way to create a fluffy volumetric flower. It is made using the "pompom" technique - from corrugated crepe paper

The good thing about this technique is that it allows you to make large flowers out of paper very quickly - since crepe paper is sold in large rolls (like wallpaper). And each roll can turn into a large flower for the decoration of the holiday.

The master class in the photo below shows how to make such a lush paper flower with your own hands. We fold a wide (20 cm wide tape) several times to get a layering in many layers. Cut the folded tape into a fringe WITH TWO EDGES, leave the middle intact.

We fluff the fringe of the flower in all directions - achieving the shape of a perfect circle. And we decorate the central part of the flower with a lump of black paper - and we get the resemblance of a flower with a disheveled poppy.

As you can imagine, the height of the petals depends on the length of the fringe. And the shape of the petals depends on the shape of the fringe.

Below (a paper flower master class) we make anemones using exactly the same pom-pom technique. The difference is that we slightly changed the shape of the fringe - it's not even a fringe cut at all, but just a beautiful curly petal edge of the napkin.

As a result, the fluffed flower no longer becomes a poppy - but a delicate paper anemone.

And you can absolutely do not reshape the edge- that is, do not cut or fringe it at all. Leave it straight, as it is on the napkin. Just lightly paint over with a marker.

And in the same technique, we make a pom-pom with our own hands. They pinched it with wire, folded it in half - fluffed it up and got a carnation on a wire leg.

It remains to add elements from green paper - receptacle(wrap the toothed roll around the flower bowl), stalk(a long green strip for wrapping the flower stem), leaves (long oval glued to the stem).

And you can also make such a pompom flower in two colors. with a middle of a different color (see photo below)... To do this, we need paper strips of two colors - one wide (yellow), and the second 2 times narrower (black).

We prepare the strips - first we cut a wide strip into a double-sided fringe (or a patterned edge also on both sides), then we make patterned edges from two on a narrow strip.

To make a patterned petal edge- you need to fold the strip into an accordion (as in childhood fans were made) and on both sides of this folded fan we make a rounding with scissors.

Later expand the strips and put a narrow black strip in the middle of the wide yellow stripes. We fold them again with an accordion (already two-tone).

Tying the string or wire. And we unfold the sides of the fan in a circle - a flower is formed. If desired, the middle of the flower can be decorated with crumpled paper or cut fringe, glue it between the blades of the black center.

And here is a master class, where it is shown how to make a paper flower-pompom WITH FINGER-STYLE with your own hands (photo instruction below).

The principle of creating this flower from paper of two colors is the same as in the previous master class. Only here the middle strip is shredded on both sides into small fringes. This is another way to make large crepe paper flowers.

Method number 4

Paper flowers

Twisted on a ball.

Here's another way to create flowers from crinkled crepe paper.

To make such flowers out of paper, you need wide short strips of crepe paper and balls of different sizes (lollipops, balls). We put the ball on the strip and hug the ball on both sides with the strip - twist the tails-ends of the strip into a tight flagellum. Carefully take out the ball, trying not to crush the inflated petal template. We make several of these petals and collect them into a lush flower.

By the same principle, rounded crocus petals are made from corrugated paper (photo below). Here you need a paper strip that is already longer - it is put on the ball with one of its halves. The other half is twisted at the top of the ball and goes back behind the back of the ball and rests on top of its first half. It turns out a rounded petal.

If you fold such a petal close to each other, you get a cup of a closed crocus flower (as in the photo below). Excellent hand-made flowers for March 8 for mom.

A lot of bouquets can be made from crepe corrugated paper. Including bouquets of sweets.

Method number 5

FLOWERS made of paper

In ORIGAMI technique.

And now we will talk about folding paper flowers - without any cutting with scissors. That is, about the art of origami.

The first model is flowers with conical petals. Here they are, how handsome they are. Each petal of such a flower is made from a simple square of paper. In simple origami technique.

All ready-made petals are glued to each other - and we put a beautiful rhinestone-pebble in the center from the gluing.

It is very easy and quick to make such handmade flowers by yourself - and they look very elegant on gift wrapping. They can even decorate a Christmas tree.

As soon as you pick up a square of paper and look at the master class below, you will immediately make the same petal. It's very simple - you start doing it and you understand everything along the way. And you are surprised that this is not taught in kindergarten - everything is so simple and accessible to an ordinary person. After module 10, when the whole flower pattern has already been absorbed into your subconsciousness, your hands are already doing everything almost blindly - on the machine.

If you take a roll of plain wallpaper as paper and cut it into large squares, then you can get large-sized flowers for decorating a hall or decorating a home celebration.

And also due to the fact that these flowers have the shape of a CONE, it is convenient to collect them in one large ball. And use it as a pendant. Or as a crown of a decorative tree (which usually decorate weddings).

And here is a master class of a large water lily and the technique of folding from paper without cutting.

And here is an interesting way where the petals-modules are made separately, and then each module is not glued, but simply inserted into the grooves of the adjacent module.

These do-it-yourself paper flowers can be an excellent craft for any occasion. You can now make paper flowers in different techniques and teach this to children. You can use these ideas to decorate your party or practice in the Skillful Pens class. Such flowers are suitable as crafts for the Spring contest at school or kindergarten. Or these flowers can become a gift for the day of March 8 for mom - a handmade bouquet of paper flowers.
Many simple ideas for children's crafts on the theme of flowers you will find in our other articles:

Successful crafts.
Olga Klishevskaya, specially for the site

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Paper flowers are nice not only to see, but also to make with your own hands. In addition, they have a couple of advantages over their natural counterparts - they are much more affordable and durable. By the way, having learned how to make flowers with your own hands, you will never be confused if you suddenly need:

  • Pack gifts;
  • Decorate the house for the holiday;
  • Festively;
  • Make props for a photo shoot;
  • Make gifts for loved ones, friends, colleagues or teachers / caregivers of the child;
  • ... or simply update the interior.

From this material you will learn how to make flowers with your own hands from corrugated, colored or tissue paper (in silence). 4 step-by-step master classes with pictures and templates, as well as a selection of 70 beautiful photos and useful videos are waiting for you.

Application ideas

Later we will tell you about the techniques for making flowers from paper, but first we suggest you get inspired by photo examples of their use.

  • Bouquets of paper flowers can not only be placed in vases, but also "planted" in pretty pots. To do this, they must first be stuck into a base made of polystyrene or floral foam. Next, the base should be decorated with dry moss or small stones.
  • Paper flowers in vases, pots or just buds without stems will decorate March 8, Easter, Valentine's Day or a wedding.

Flowers made of paper with ink

  • How to arrange napkins for a festive table setting? Just place small flowers on top or fold into rings with bright buds.

  • And here is another attribute for a festive table decoration - holders for guest cards.

  • You can decorate the house for the holiday or just like that with such garlands or cascades of flowers.

To make such a garland of flowers with your own hands, use ribbon blanks of petals (see MK # 1 below, step 3) and skip the stages of making the stem and pistil

  • Take a sheet of cardboard or canvas on a stretcher, glue the buds to it and frame it. Voila, the panel is ready! It can be hung on the wall or given to a friend.

  • A beautiful photo zone can be ordered from the masters, or you can set aside a couple of days and make it yourself, saving significantly. The second master class provides instructions on how to make large flowers with your own hands.

Photo zone with flowers for a child's birthday

  • Large paper flowers can also be made for a photo shoot.

  • Luxurious wreaths are made from corrugated paper flowers. They can be used as an attribute for a theme party and also for a photo shoot.

  • Even the simplest gift wrapping will become elegant if you decorate it with homemade paper buds (see master class # 1 and # 4). In this selection of photo examples, you can glean a couple of original ideas.

Master class number 1 - Flowers from corrugated paper (basic instruction)

DIY crepe paper flowers can look surprisingly believable. Although at some stages of their manufacture you will have to tinker a little, even a beginner can cope with the craft from the very first time.

This selection of photos presents examples of paper flowers that you can make yourself by following our step-by-step master class.

To work you will need:

  • Corrugated paper of the desired shade (for buds);
  • Green corrugated paper (for stems, leaves, sepals) and / or corrugated paper tape;
  • Floral wire (wire wrapped in green, sold in art stores, on Aliexpress) or wooden skewer / wire / newspaper tube / knitting needle;
  • Scissors;
  • Glue (hot glue gun is best);
  • Pencil.

Master Class

Although almost any flower can be made from crepe paper - from roses to tulips - the principle of their manufacture is approximately the same. The main difficulty is to make the correct petals: give them the desired shape, volume, size, choose the color of the paper, guess with the quantity.

  • Following our master class, you will master the basic skills of making flowers from corrugated paper and will be able to make roses, peonies, tulips, lilies, daisies, chrysanthemums and dahlias.

Step 1. So, first we need to make the stem. If you are using flower wire, then simply cut it to the desired length: a stem about 30 cm long is suitable for making a bouquet, and for, say, a boutonniere, 15 cm is enough.

  • If you don't have a special wire, it doesn't matter. An excellent stem can be made from a wooden skewer, any flexible wire or newspaper, rolled into a thin tube with a knitting needle / skewer. At the last stage, your improvised stem needs to be wrapped in green corrugated paper (we'll talk about this below).

Step 2. Since the pistils and stamens of all flowers are different, and sometimes they do not exist at all, there are many techniques for making "cores" of artificial flowers.

  • To make a chamomile or daisy, you need a yellow button-shaped bud core. Stick a ball of cotton wool on the stem, then wrap it in a couple of yellow squares cut from corrugated paper, wrap the base of the button with green corrugated tape and finally fix the tape with glue.
  • To make a core for a rose, you need to cut a 9x9 cm square from colored corrugated paper, fold it into a triangle, then connect the two corners of the triangle to its apex. Next, wrap the resulting torch-shaped blank to the top of the stem with a green corrugated tape and fix it with glue.

The following photo illustrates blanks for making cores of different colors.

  • Would you like to present a bouquet of flowers as a sweet gift (see photo below)? Use candy as the core! To do this, simply place it on the top of the stem and secure it with tape / paper tape.

Step 3. Let's start making petals and forming a bud. This stage is the most important, so it should be given more attention. Depending on what kind of flower you want to make, choose one of two working methods.

Single petal method (suitable for roses, peonies, lilies and other flowers with few petals)

As the name suggests, the method consists of shaping the bud one at a time, petal by petal.

  1. The first step is to draw and cut a template of the desired shape and size (see templates below).
  2. Then the corrugated paper is folded several times, a template is applied to it, the outline of the template is outlined with a pencil, and then cut out with scissors. As a result, you will get several blanks at once. Repeat the procedure several times to obtain the desired number of petals.

These templates will help you navigate the size, shape and number of petals. Keep in mind that the length of rose, peony and tulip petals should be approximately 9-11 cm, and lilies should be 13.5-15.5 cm

  1. Further, all the petals need to be given volume and bend: stretch a little and bend inward / outward, if necessary, wrap the tips with a toothpick / skewer (for example, for a rose). To understand what kind of shape you need to give the petals, just look at the photo of a real flower and experiment a little.

Corrugated paper is easy to stretch, curl and take the desired shape

To make a peony, you need to make 35 petals and a stem with a button. How to make petals: guided by the photo, cut out the petals of the desired shape, then stretch them slightly and bend them inward, gather the base of the petals a little. You need to glue the central petals lower, and the rest - higher. When the flower is ready, slightly tuck the tips of the petals inward.

To make a rose, use 5 small and 7 large petals (see template above). Round the petals just below the middle, and roll the top edges outward with a skewer / toothpick. Attach the small petals to the core first and then the larger ones.

To make a lily, use 5 petals (see template above) and a pistil with stamens from red and white corrugated paper. Fold the petals in half lengthwise to form folds, then unfold them. Bend the petals by turning them out at their widest point

Corrugated paper tulips are the easiest to make. Only six petals are required, they need to be rounded a little, and the ends are pleated

  1. When all the petals are ready, start glueing them one by one to the stem, and then on top of each other, adhering to a checkerboard pattern. A hot glue gun works best for this purpose. If there are not too many petals, then the same green corrugated paper tape can be used instead of glue (see photo).

Tape method (suitable for daisies, daisies, carnations and other "layered" flowers)

The difference between this technique is that the petals are not cut separately, but from a strip of corrugated paper, when the workpiece looks like a fringe. In this case, the petals acquire volume and bend (sometimes several layers at the same time) only after the fringe is attached to the stem.

  1. Cut a strip of the desired length and width from the corrugated paper, then fold it in several layers and cut the petals into the desired shape (see the template below).

  1. Wrap the resulting fringe tightly around the pistil and secure it with green corrugated tape, tape, or glue. If there are too many layers, then so that the bud does not slip out of your hands, the fringe should be cut into several parts.

The central petals of the chrysanthemum need to be wrapped around the pistil quite tightly, the rest - freer and slightly higher

The carnation is made from three stripes (see template). The first strip just needs to be tightly bundled and secured with tape / tape. The second and third strip should be wrapped around it, holding and aligning the bottom of the bud. Next, the bud is fixed with corrugated tape or glue. At the end, pull the petals outward to give the carnation a rounded shape.

To make a dahlia, start winding the blank just below the pistil, but then wind the petals, rising higher and higher. Give the petals a rounded shape, twist the tips inward a little, and finally pinch the tip of each petal to form a fold.

  1. Bend the petals if necessary.

  1. Now that the flower is almost ready, it needs to be supplemented with sepals and leaves on the stem. To do this, you need to cut out blanks of leaves in the appropriate quantity, shape and size (focus on photos or templates) and just glue them in the right places.

  • Sepals are glued under the bud, then bend and volume are given to them.
  • To make leaves for certain types of flowers, such as tulips and lilies, simply cut out blanks and glue them to the stem. However, some flowers have leaves with cuttings and they need to be done in a slightly different way. Cut out the leaves (with a little space for fastening), then glue them to a small piece of wire, wrap the wire in green paper, then glue the stalk to the stem. If desired, paper leaves can be replaced with artificial ones.

  1. Hooray, your crepe paper flower is almost done! It remains only to wrap the entire stem with a strip / ribbon of green corrugation, starting with the sepals and simultaneously wrapping the place of attachment of the leaves. At the beginning and at the end of the stem, the winding must be fixed with glue.
  2. To make your handmade flowers look even more realistic and retain their beauty longer, cover them with melted beeswax and let dry.

To better understand how to make flowers from corrugated paper with your own hands, the following video tutorial will help you.

Master class number 2 - Large rose made of corrugated paper

Large handmade flowers are good for decorating a photo zone, ceilings and walls for holidays (for example, a wedding or birthday). They can also become a spectacular props for a photo shoot.

To work you will need:

  • Roll of corrugated paper of the desired color 50 × 200 cm (1 roll / 1 flower);
  • A roll of green corrugated paper (for the stem and sepals);
  • A4 paper (office paper can be used);
  • Hot glue gun;
  • Scissors.

How to make large paper flowers:

Step 1. First, let's make the stem. Take a sheet of A4 white paper, put a pencil on the corner, then roll the paper into a tube.

Step 2. Fully unfold the roll of crepe paper. First fold it in half, then in half again, then again ... made a rectangle? Now fold it in half to make a square about 25x25cm.

Step 3. Use scissors to cut the folded paper at all folds. You will end up with two identical stacks of square sheets, from which we will further cut out the petals.

Step. 4. Fold each stack in half. From the first pile, folded into a rectangle, cut out a shape that looks like a half heart, as shown in the diagram below. Cut out the same shape from the second stack, but in a smaller size.

Expand the stacks to get these petals.

Step 5. Twist the tips of the petal with a pencil or pen, and stretch the petal itself a little and bend inward.

Step 6. Give the petal an even more rounded shape by making two folds in its lower part and fixing them with hot glue.

Step 7. Let's start forming the bud. Roll one of the small petals around the stem tightly enough.

Step 8. Begin glueing the rest of the small petals in a checkerboard pattern. When you run out of small petals, continue to grow the bud with larger petals. In total, your rose will "grow" with 15 petals (+1 petal in the center of the bud).

Step 9. Fold a square sheet of green corrugated paper (25 × 25 cm) diagonally to form a triangle, then fold the triangle 2 more times in half. From the resulting multi-layered triangle, starting at the fold line (!), Cut out a shape like in the picture below. When you flatten the cut out blank, you will have a quatrefoil.

Step 10. Make a small cruciform incision in the center of the quatrefoil, (see the picture above), through the resulting hole, put it on the stem to the bud, then glue the leaves with hot glue.

Step 11. Hooray, our big rose is almost ready. It remains only to wrap the stem in green paper. To do this, you need to roll it into a roll, then cut off an approximately 2-centimeter piece from it from the edge (that is, the same as if you cut a piece from the roll). Now dissolve the resulting tape and wrap the stem with it, fixing the upper and lower ends with glue.

From the next video, you will learn how to make large flowers with your own hands from paper with tissue.

Master class number 3 - Colored paper hyacinths (suitable for children's creativity)

These hyacinths look like they were made by a quilling expert. In fact, even a child can make such flowers out of paper with his own hands! Making the first hyacinth will take some time, but for each next flower you will spend no more than 5 minutes.

To make such a bouquet of flowers with your own hands, you will need a little more than half an hour.

To make paper flowers you will need:

  • Colored paper or not too thick cardboard (for buds);
  • Green paper (for stems);
  • Scissors;
  • Ruler;
  • Pencil;
  • Glue stick;
  • Knitting needle or wooden skewer.

Master Class

Step 1. Cut out a strip of approximately 21 x 2.5 cm. If you are using A4 colored paper / cardboard, then you just need to cut the sheet across.

Step 2. Departing from the top edge 1 cm, draw a line with a pencil along the strip using a ruler. Next, using scissors, cut your workpiece into strips about 5-7 mm wide, without reaching the previously drawn line. You will end up with something like a fringed ribbon. Try to cut the paper into even and parallel strips, but do not worry about mistakes, because they will not be noticeable when rolled up.

Step 3. Using a knitting needle or wooden skewer, carefully roll each strip into a roll until it stops. Make sure the pencil line is on the back of the paper.

Step 4. Now we will deal with the stem. From green paper (cardboard will not work!) Cut out a strip of 21 × 2.5 cm.

  • By the way, if you want to save time, just use green straws as stems.

Step 5. Twist one of the corners of your strip diagonally, then lightly go over the entire strip with a glue stick (see photo) and finally roll the entire strip into a thin tube.

When you're done, it should look something like this:

Step 6. Now is the time to roll up the bud and glue it to the stem. To do this, again take the blank of the bud (strip with curls) and grease its base with glue from the wrong side.

Step 7. Hooray, your first paper flower is almost ready, all that remains is to add leaves to the stem. To do this, cut a piece of about 2.5 × 8 cm from green paper and fold it lengthwise into an accordion about 1 cm wide.

Assemble the accordion and, stepping back about 1.5 cm from the bottom edge, give it the shape of a leaf using scissors.

Unfolded, your blank should have 3-4 leaves and look something like the photo.

Step 8. Grease the bottom of the leaves with glue and place its corner about 5 cm below the bud and at an angle, as shown in the photo below. Next, wrap the piece tightly around the stem.

Well, that's all, the hyacinth is ready! Repeat the process using different shades of paper to make a bouquet of paper flowers.

DIY paper flower bouquet

Master class number 4 - Roses made of paper (express method)

This master class will come in handy when you need to make flowers with your own hands super-quickly, easily, on a budget and in large quantities.

To work you will need:

  • Any pretty paper (even book pages will do);
  • Green paper for leaves;
  • Glue (thermo-glue is best);
  • Scissors;
  • Pencil.
  • Wooden skewers (needed if you want to make a bouquet).

How to make paper roses:

Step 1. Cut out a square piece of paper approximately 12 x 12 cm.

Step 2. Draw a circle on your square, and then draw a spiral inside it. It does not have to be flawless for the roses to be textured. If you wish, you can even make it wavy, then the rose will have pronounced petals.

Step 3. Cut out your circle, then cut the workpiece along the spiral line. As a result, you get something like a spring.

Step 4. Take the outer end of your "spring", roll it into a roll (loosely), then start twisting all the tape around it. Hold the flower underneath to keep the paper from unraveling.

Step 5. When you get to the base (the inside of the piece), glue the bud to it with enough glue. Voila, the first flower is ready!

Step 6. If desired, the rose can be supplemented with leaves. They are cut in any shape and glued.

Step 7. If you want to make a bouquet, then glue the buds on skewers or a newspaper / paper tube. It is desirable to wrap the stems in green paper tape.

Here are a few more DIY flower making ideas that you can implement with the help of our master class.

Wedding garland of flowers from colored paper and book pages

Bulky paper flowers for decorating the interior with your own hands. Master class with step by step photos


Description: You can decorate any room with voluminous paper flowers. Of course, in order to make them take a little patience. Such flowers can be made by children from 6 years old under the guidance of adults, older children can do it on their own. You can devote a separate lesson to making each flower and a composition from them (adding greenery).
Target: Create voluminous paper flowers for interior decoration.
Tasks:
develop the ability to work with a diagram using conventional symbols (fold line - dotted, solid line - cut line);
to consolidate the ability to fold square-shaped paper in different directions; make markup with a simple pencil, without using a template; fix cutting techniques in accordance with the markup;
develop the ability to compose (assemble) an object from several parts, using glue;
cultivate patience, independence, arouse the desire to creatively use the existing skills and abilities;
develop imaginative representations;
develop fine motor skills of the hands.
To make paper flowers you will need: colored double-sided A4 paper, a ruler, a stencil for tracing circles of different diameters, a simple pencil, scissors, glue.

Making flowers:

1. Cornflowers.


The blue sky fell on the meadow
Blue, blacken everything around,
They bloomed in the meadow, by the blue river,
Like a blue sky, flowers are cornflowers.
N. Masley



2.Nails.


R marigolds bloom,
Sun red flowers -
The girls are laughing

Like bright freckles.
Ah, happy flowers!
Smile sooner and you!
Ya Voronets


All squares are the same size.



Zinnia is a beauty
Wakes up in the morning
In velvet red
The dress is dressing up.
Fluffy basket
Swaying in the wind ...
Bloom in the sun
It turns out nicely.
A. Alferova





There is such a flower in the garden
And he looks like a star.
Can be of any color.
For an autumn bouquet
We will pick a beautiful flower
It is called - aster.
M. Blinnikova


All squares are the same size.

5. Red and white flower.


Each square is 1 - 1.5 cm less than the previous one.


Red and white flowers bloom petals.
The breeze breathes a little - the petals sway.
Red and white flowers cover the petals.
They fall asleep quietly - they shake their heads.

6 lotus, water lily.


In pink,
Among the green leaves,
Delicate flower
Soars over the water!
V. Leonov


White squares are smaller than pink ones by 1.5 - 2 cm.


And the flower round dance began.

And so you can decorate windows in summer for the holidays or for a good mood.

With the holidays approaching, many are thinking how to make a flower out of paper, because such a present is truly unusual, remembering for a long time. These buds look incredibly touching, sweet, tender, showing the feelings of the donor. Indeed, to make it, I had to make an effort, be patient, put a piece of my soul.

A paper flower is an ideal gift for your beloved or loved one for their birthday, February 14, March 8. Such bouquets look original as wedding bouquets - these buds certainly will not fade, retaining their beauty for many years. I am glad that even an inexperienced person, for example, a child under the guidance of a mother, grandmother, kindergarten teacher, can make such a thing.

Even the smallest, preschool children, for example, in kindergarten or at home, can make simple flowers with their own hands.

One of the simplest options is a voluminous flower made of glued strips, it is done like this:

Take: colored paper of your favorite colors (white, yellow, pink, red, orange), pencil, ruler, scissors, glue;

  • cut strips 4 cm wide, 21 long, eight in total

  • bend them in half, cut the corners by about 2-3 mm
  • tie the middle with a thread, carefully cut off the tails of the thread

  • grease the area near the middle with glue, bend the edge of the top sheet to it, just bend all the "petals"

  • fasten the edge with clothespins until dry
  • after a few minutes, remove the clamps and level the flower.

Patterns and schemes of volumetric colors from paper

It is easy to make buds using ready-made templates or diagrams. It remains to trace the contours on paper, cut out, fold in a certain way, secure with glue - and the craft is ready.


How to make a large flower from corrugated paper with your own hands to decorate a hall for a wedding

It is really possible to make luxurious flowers on your own, with your own skillful hands, such crafts made of corrugated paper are especially beautiful (in childhood we called it simply a reaper for a “crumpled” surface). For example, huge buds will be a very original, romantic decoration of a wedding photo zone or the entire hall.

You need to prepare:

on a roll of corrugated paper of the selected two colors, one darker, the second paler, glue gun, tape measure, scissors, a circle cut out of cardboard;

They are made in this way:

  • take a light color, cut a strip 1 meter long, fold it in half, cut it 25 cm wide (in half a roll)

  • fold the strip in half three times, cut the sides, without cutting to the edge 5 cm

  • cut in half, also leaving 5 cm
  • we make sharp petals, cutting off the corners, we get a garland-flags

  • fold the garland with a large accordion, twist the roll, as if we squeeze the linen first in one direction, then the other side

  • unfold, stretch each sheet in the middle

  • glue gun glue the garland around the edge of the circle in the form of a sun

  • we process the second strip in this way, glue it along the edge of the "header", trying to fix it in a checkerboard pattern compared to the first layer

  • take the second color, make strips - two 19 cm wide, one 12 cm wide, the length is also 1 meter
  • we fold one 19-centimeter strip, as before, but do not cut to the edge, not 5, but 4 cm, glue the garland inside the flower
  • so we glue the second row, the third - from a strip of a darker color, then again a light one

  • the fifth row is already the stamens, for it we take a strip 12 cm wide, we also fold it in half three times, but now we cut not into two, but three leaves, without cutting to the edge of 4 cm
  • the last 12-centimeter strip is folded in the same way, but not cut to about 2 cm, after compression, carefully unfold the garland and use hot melt to roll it up with a tube - this is the middle
  • if there is an empty space, then we cut out more strips 12 cm wide

  • with the latter we strengthen the middle with glue, pressing it against the cardboard
  • it remains to spread the leaves - and the luxurious flower is ready.

A simple way to make a flower without glue

If there is no glue, it doesn't matter, you can make such simple buds by cutting out the petals from colorful paper and stringing them onto a cocktail tube. So that later the layers do not fly apart, it remains to slightly cut the edge of the tube, bending the resulting strips in different directions, imitating the stamens.

Flower with candy for children

What child doesn't like sweets? And if it is still decorated as a flower? Agree, not a single kid will remain indifferent! And making a simple bud with a candy core is quite simple. Let's take a sunflower as an example.

Let's prepare:

  • corrugated paper, scissors, ruler, glue gun, piece of wire;
  • cut the header into strips 1.5 cm wide, divide it into 8 parts

  • sharp little petals are cut out of these pieces, each is twisted with scissors, the tip is additionally twisted upwards
  • this is how about two dozen petals are performed
  • from green material, leaves of a slightly smaller size are cut in the same way

  • from cardboard you need to cut a small circle for the base (the size of the candy, a little more)
  • it should be painted over or covered with brown paper
  • a wire is attached to the cardboard with a glue gun, twisted at one edge with a ring for better fixation

  • glue the petals to the base in a circle at the very edge, then the second row, already closer to the center and adhering to a checkerboard pattern
  • glue green leaves below
  • decorate the wire with green tape

  • glue the candy to the center of the sunflower.

Making a paper flower from napkins quickly and easily

The most beautiful, lush bud is easy to make from a simple napkin - it's cheap, and most importantly - the base is almost always at home, you can experiment whenever you want.

Take: 3 napkins, spread out to a rectangle, fold together, then fold in an accordion in about a centimeter increments;

  • fold the strip in half, fix with a thread
  • cut off the ends with the letter "M"

  • flatten, getting a circle
  • then gently separate the layers of the napkin

  • so we get a lush peony.

Video how to make a flower from A4 paper that blooms in water

Flowers can be not just static, they can ... bloom. Surprisingly, this applies not only to living plants, but also to their paper counterparts. The secret is simple - when wet, the material returns to its shape, flattens, but this experience looks really cool - not only a child will be surprised, but even an impressionable girl on a date. Try it!

Origami paper flower for beginners

The origami technique is an ancient art that requires concentration, patience, and endurance. But the simplest crafts can be mastered by almost anyone. Probably, in childhood, we all made such cups from sheets of a school notebook, various animals, boats, boxes. But origami offers more complex shapes, including flowers. Personally, as a child, I loved to make such a tulip, sprinkle it with water, then put it in a vase or give it to relatives.

The execution scheme is as follows:

fold A4 sheet or another (but not too small) diagonally, cut off the excess, so we get a square

bend the square along the second diagonal, turn it over, fold it in half lengthwise, tuck the sides inward along the folds, we get a double triangle

fold the corners to the middle, turn over, repeat with the other side

we take by the upper corners, connect them, turn the craft over so as to work with the sides previously hidden inside

we reduce the corners to the middle with a slight overlap, fill one into the other, repeat on the back of the craft

gently straighten the figure, inhale the air into the hole below so that the tulip "straightens up"

it remains to beautifully spread the petals, arrange the stem from a skewer or wire.

How to make a paper bouquet for March 8 or birthday

To create a bouquet for a holiday, for example, a name day or March 8, is quite simple by mastering the techniques described above. For the composition, you can use paper flowers with sweets or just self-created buds. It remains to fold them beautifully, wrap them with a ribbon, wrap them with a special net, wrapping film, decorate with beads, bows, ribbons - everything here is limited solely to personal imagination.

The easiest option for children is to take a sheet of green paper, fold it like an accordion, pick it up with glue or thread from below, and attach cut flowers of pink, white, red, yellow along the upper edge. It will turn out to be such an impromptu bouquet.

A higher level is a bouquet of roses with a candy heart, for it you need:

Get: glue gun, crumpled paper, scissors, round candy, bamboo skewers or wire;

  • sweets strung on the "stems" of wire or bamboo

  • from the header, cut into circles with a diameter of 5.5 cm (14 pieces) and 4.5 cm (12 pieces) for each bud
  • stretching the middle to form petals
  • glue the petals around the candy in a circle, first small, then large

  • cut out small leaves from green material, glue on the bottom of the flower

  • decorate the stem with green tape or paper again

  • collect the required number of roses in a bouquet, tie with a satin ribbon.

Such crafts will definitely stay longer than the usual 2-3 days, pleasing the eyes of each and every one. In addition, you must agree that this will be more original than the usual bouquet from a flower shop. Choose what you like, experiment, try, good luck! Check out our blog for more tips!