Create a Valentine’s Day Tissue Paper Flower Bouquet
What better way to celebrate Valentine’s Day than with a bouquet of handcrafted flowers your preschooler can help you make! Fresh-cut flowers wilt and droop, these paper flowers can be kept as an everlasting keepsake.
To get started, first gather these supplies:
- Tissue paper—different shades of reds and pinks are a good idea for Valentine’s Day
- Pipe cleaners
- Scissors (designed for children to use)
Let your creativity bloom...
- Layer a couple pieces of the tissue paper one on top of the other. Choose to use a single solid color or multiple shades.
- Fold the entire stack of tissue paper at once, like an accordion, folding in a back and forth motion.
- Once you have folded the tissue paper into a condensed rectangle, secure the center by twisting a pipe cleaner around it.
- With the pipe cleaner safely securing the center of your soon-to-be flower, pull up on each layer of tissue paper one by one to create the fullness of the flower, and arrange it to your liking or to your preschooler’s liking.
- Once the bloom of the flower is arranged to your liking, ask your preschooler to help you make it unique by trimming up some of the edges, just like a real flower would look.
- Repeat these steps until all of your supplies have been used up or you have made enough paper flowers to make a nice size bouquet.
Enjoy these beautiful flowers and use them to spruce up your home.
Hint: hide a Styrofoam® block in an opaque vase to hold the pipe cleaners. Mold the pipe cleaners and arrange the flowers as real flowers would look.