Sometimes crafts are as easy as what we already have on hand. A peek in your kitchen baking cabinet and you probably have an open container of paper or foil cupcake wrappers, also known as paper baking cups. Here are two fun crafts for making paper flowers using cupcake wrappers. This craft is appropriate for kids with some adult supervision. It would make a great surprise for Mom or Grandma or a female teacher, or to decorate a girl’s bedroom. Each craft project takes less than 20 minutes.
Here’s how to get started:
Cupcake Wrapper Paper Flowers
You will need:
a container to use as a vase, such as a real vase or wire pencil holder or jar or other vase-like shaped container
about a dozen or so paper cupcake wrappers or paper baking cups in white or assorted colors or foil
some food coloring or non-toxic craft paint and a small piece of sponge
cotton balls or cotton cosmetic rounds
black colored marker
green florist wire or craft wire
some green construction paper or green cellophane or cellophane grass
foam paper plate
glue
scissors
Instructions:
1. Lay a few cotton balls or cotton cosmetic rounds on a foam paper plate.
2. Color cotton balls or cotton rounds with a few drops of food coloring or dab with some craft paint on a sponge.
3. Take a black colored marker and draw a few dots on the painted or dyed cotton, for a seeded center flower effect.
4. Dab a drop of glue on the center of cupcake wrappers. Place cotton on glue to attach the flower center.
5. Cut several pieces of green florist wire or craft wire and bend and twist and curl like a wild growing flower stem. You can double the wire if you like, for effect.
6. Poke wire stem through back or cupcake wrapper to hold flower. Or you can use a small piece of see through scotch tape instead to attach wire to wrapper.
7. If vase container is see-through, loosely fill with green paper or cellophane.
8. Place cupcake flowers in vase and enjoy!
Tips:
You can use additional cupcake wrappers with no cotton and just fold in an accordion like fashion and attach wire to resemble a flower bud.
You can use two contrasting cupcake wrappers to make a two toned flower bud or create a paper carnation with many layers.
If working with younger children, green pipe cleaners can be used instead of wire.
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Cupcake Wrapper Paper Flower Corsage
You will need:
Cupcake Wrappers in assorted colors
safety pin
perfume spray or a drop of aromatherapy oil
2 green pipe cleaners or green twist ties
Instructions:
1. Take several cupcake wrappers of either the same or assorted colors and fold in half flat.
2. Stack the folded cupcake wrappers and with fingers fold in a back and forth accordion like fashion.
3. Use a green twist tie or pipe cleaner and tie the end around the narrow base of the cupcake wrappers (This is the end that is actually the bottom of the wrapper and has no opening)
4. Once twist tie or pipe cleaner is secured, begin fanning open the cupcake wrapper layers gently to form a layered flower blossom. The more you separate the layers, the larger the blossom becomes. Be careful to only open the layers as far as they can go without tearing the paper.
5. Use the excess pipe cleaner or twist tie to attach a little leaf to the paper flower corsage.
6. Attach a safety pin behind the flower so it can be pinned like a corsage.
7. You can optionally spray the paper flower corsage with a light mist of perfume or dab a drop of aromatherapy oil to make a scented corsage.
Reference:
- Corsage en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corsage A corsage is a floral fashion accessory attached to the waist or bodice of a dress.
