Bouquet of paper flowers
Time: 40 minutes | Age: 8 years and over | Difficulty: 
Material
- Sheets of plain translucent paper
- Sheets of fancy paper
- A pair of scissors
- A stapler
- Craft glue
- Decorative masking tape
Steps
- For the flowers cut out about fifteen squares of different sizes (6x6cm/7.5x7.5cm/8cm) from the translucent paper and the fancy paper, as you like.
- For the flower pistil cut out about fifteen strips (5x1cm) from the yellow translucent paper.
- Apply a drop of glue to the tip of a strip and then place it on one of the diagonals of a square.
- Leave to dry. Repeat this operation for each flower.
To make the flowers
- For the flowers cut out about fifteen squares of different sizes (6x6cm/7.5x7.5cm/8cm) from the translucent paper and the fancy paper, as you like.
- For the flower pistil cut out about fifteen strips (5x1cm) from the yellow translucent paper.
- Apply a drop of glue to the tip of a strip and then place it on one of the diagonals of a square.
- Leave to dry. Repeat this operation for each flower.
- To make the flowers bring two extremities of the squares together and staple them well at the base.
To make the leaves:
- Cut out about ten leaves of different sizes (5 to 7cm) from the green translucent paper.
- Apply a drop of glue to the base of a leaf, then place it at the base of a flower. Leave to dry. Repeat this operation for each leaf.
To make the bouquet:
- Staple the first 4 flowers together at the base.
- Complete by stapling and gluing the rest of the flowers together, at several different heights.
You can then stick the bouquet onto a gift, and decorate the gift using decorative tape, as you like.
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