Friday, May 6, 2011

Mother's Day Craft - Guest Post

Hello.  I am Paul, age 7.  I really like arts and crafts. I found some tissue paper flowers to make for Mother's Day.  Here are some pictures to show you how to do it.


Your materials:
tissue paper
scissors
green pipe cleaners for stem (or any color)
ruler
pencil




Step One:
Stack several tissue papers.  Measure an 8 inch square, or a 5 X 7 rectangle.




Step Two:
Cut out your tissue paper figures.



Step Three:
Accordion fold your papers.  Maybe an inch or less for each fold.


When you are done folding, you have a long rectangle.


Step Four:
Use the top inch of your pipe cleaner and twist it around the center of your rectangle.


Step Five:
Pull up on and unravel your fold.  Do each side.


To make fuller flowers, stack more papers when you do your folding.  I showed it to you with just one paper.

This website shows you a fuller flower and gives you directions.  It also shows multi-colored flowers.

Have fun!  You can do this for your Sunday School, or for grandmas and aunties and moms.

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