Flowers always cheer us up. Even the sight of falling petals is beautiful, perhaps the fragility of the petals attracts us.
Handmade flowers using coffee filters. The half circle paper soaks up the colorful ink and becomes a beautiful gradation, just like flower petals. When the dyed paper is wrapped around a bamboo stick, a paper flower blooms. It will never wither and will continue to delight us forever.
This is a very simple craft that takes advantage of the highly permeable properties of coffee filters. Please leave the dyeing part to the children. They will dye many papers in no time. The parts that make up the flower are tricky, but you can do it slowly as if you were making the petals bloom in your hands. It’ll be easy once you get used to it.
The handmade flowers, bundled with greenery and made into a bouquet, would make a wonderful Mother’s Day present or appreciation gift.

Instructions for making

Step 1. Fold the Coffee Filter

Fold a coffee filter in half twice and soak it in water. Then, contain the excess water with a paper towel.

Step 2. Dye the Coffee Filter

Next, dye the coffee filter into the ink. A single color is fine, but using three or four colors will create a beautiful gradation of overlapping colors. The bottom part near the stem is dyed green. After coloring, press down the excess water with a paper towel. Then open it up slowly. Lay them out on paper to dry. This will be the outer petal.

Step 3. Dye the Calligraphy Paper

Cut the calligraphy paper vertically into four equal pieces (2 1/2×13inches). Dyed and dried in the same way as coffee filters. The top part, which is the petal, is dyed in a gorgeous color, and the bottom part is dyed green to resemble a stem. This will be the inner petal.

Step 4. Make up the Flower 1

Apply a glue gun to the bottom part of the dyed calligraphy paper and secure it to the bamboo stick. Softly wrap the paper around the bamboo stick so that it becomes a petal. It is easier to make the petals if you apply the glue gun a little at a time instead of trying to wrap it all at once.

Step 5. Make up the Flower 2

Fix the dyed coffee filter to the flower made in step 3. Put a glue gun on the bottom part of the half circle and wrap it around all the way to make up a large flower.

Step 6. Make a Bouquet

Combine coffee filter flowers with actual greenery to create a bouquet. The textures of the paper and plants, and the colors of the flowers and greens cause a beautiful contrast.

Flower Variations

Many variations of flowers can be made by changing the size and length of the paper. In addition to the large flowers shown in this tutorial, you can also wrap several layers of thin paper around a flower to make it look like a carnation. Please feel free to create your own way to make various flowers bloom.

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