Crafts for kids
How to Make a Giant Paper Rose:
You
will need:
Flower wire - (or pipe cleaners if you don’t
have this handy)
**Crepe paper – Colored (any color you fancy )
**Crepe paper – one sheet of green for leaves, calyx and stem
Floral tape – (green)
Scissors
Craft glue
Crafty Kids template 1 and 2
Additional butterfly template and some gems
Stapler *
*(if like me you don’t have a steady hand you can staple the template on before cutting)
** (please note you can use tissue paper if you have no crepe paper but you need to be more delicate as it rips easily)
Assemble
- Enlarge and print template found in the Crafts Cupboard. Use the template to trace and cut five teardrop-shaped petals and 15 heart-shaped petals from double-sided crepe paper.
- To shape petals, cup in centre or heart shape ; wrap left and right top edges around a pencil to curl at edges outward to form ‘flower shape’
- Make a stem by wrapping three flower wires in paper to cover wires then wrap together with floral tape.
- Start building flowers by first placing teardrop petals around the stem and rotate with each one then secure with green floral tape. Next place heart shaped petals around the "bud" you have just created and secure with more floral tape.
- Trace and cut the calyx shape from green crepe paper to wrap around bottom of ‘stem’. Once you wrap calyx around bottom of rose glue in place.
- Wrap three more flower wires with floral tape.
- Then trace and cut out three leaf shapes from green crepe paper. Draw a strip of glue down the centre of each leaf, place the paper-covered wire down, and pinch the crepe paper together over the paper-covered wire "vein" to hide it.
- Attach the leaves to the stem by wrapping in floral tape round the stem.
- Wrap stem with several more strips of green crepe paper to cover floral tape; glue these in place.
- Voila…. a fantastic giant rose.
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