Valentine's Day is Just Around the Corner!

Here's a craft that is fun and easy to make with the whole family: A Valentine's Day tissue paper flower bouquet! This craft is great for all ages and can brighten up any room and bring a smile to everyone!

Valentine's Day Tissue Bouquet

Here's What you Need to Do:

1. What You Need.     Tissue Paper, Pipe Cleaners, and Safety Scissors (or if an adult is helping to cut, regular scissors)  For Valentine's Day I suggest using tissue paper that is pink, red, or white, but you can easily make these out of any color. You can make single colored flowers or blend colors together. I decided to blend pink and red together, as shown in the picture above.

Supplies

2. Prepare Tissue Paper.     You will need 4 or more sheets of tissue paper. I used 4 in the above picture. Overlap your sheets and cut out even squares.

Cutting Tissue Paper

3. Fold Tissue Paper.     Make sure your tissue paper sheets are all aligned. If you are blending colors, I suggest placing them every other color, but you can be creative and do whatever you want. Then you will fold the paper, just like a fan or an accordion. I make the folds about an inch in width. First fold it one direction, and then fold it again going in the opposite direction. It is a little hard to explain, so here is a picture of what it should look like when you are finished.

Folded Tissue Paper

4. Sizing Your Flowers.     You can really make your flowers whatever size you want, but I find that a more realistic size is about the size of your safety scissors.

Sizing Your Flower

5. Shaping Your Flowers.     Take your folded tissue paper and round off your edges. I think this makes a nice looking flower, but you can play with different shapes. It will change the type of flower depending on how you decide to shape it. For these I rounded the edges.

Shape Your Flower

6. Wrap the Stem.     Take your pipe cleaner and wrap it around the center of your tissue paper. I suggest using green for the stem, but you can use any color.

Attach the Stem

7. Spread the Petals.     Take each end of the tissue paper and pull them towards each other to stretch out the petals. See how it's starting to look like a flower?!?

Stretching Out the Petals

8. Fluffing the Petals.     Once you've stretched the petals a bit, now it is time to fluff your flowers. Slowly pull each layer of tissue paper apart from the others. It will start to really look like a flower now!

Fluffing Your Flower

9. Admiring Your Flower!     Now that you've finished fluffing, you should have a beautiful flower! Now it's time to share your flower or make more so you have a whole bouquet.

Finished Flower!

And remember, you can make these in any color. So if you want to make these all year long, you can! I hope you have fun making this craft!

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