Materials
- 3 x 10-cm wide circles of tissue paper, different colours
- Cocktail stick
- Tape
- 1 bendy drinking straw
- 1 small piece of yellow tissue paper
- PVA glue
- Green paper
- Double-sided tape
How to make it
- To make one flower, fold each tissue paper circle into quarters, then cut a different pattern around each edge. Unfold each piece of tissue.
- Push once circle onto the cocktail stick through the centre. Add the other tissue paper circles in the same way to make three layers of petals.
- Twist the bottom of the tissue paper and fix with a small piece of tape. Make sure the petals are taped to each other, not to the cocktail stick. Remove the stick and open up the petals.
- Cut 2 cm off the top of a bendy drinking straw. Glue the bottom of the flower, then stick into the straw opening. Scrunch the yellow tissue paper into a ball and glue it in the flower’s centre.
- To make a leaf, draw the shape on the right onto the green paper. Cut out, then attach to the straw by sticking double-sided tape onto the flap as shown. Wrap it around the straw.
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