Valentine’s Day Bouquet
We’re making a Valentine’s Day bouquet! Keep it for yourself or give it to someone who likes flowers!
We’re going to make several different kinds of flowers and then put them in a craft tube vase.
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Supplies:
Felt Flowers
- Felt pieces or fabric scraps
- Chenille stem
- Pony Bead
- Hot glue (craft glue will also work)
- Scissors
Optional:
- School or craft glue
- Glitter
- Small plate for putting glitter on
Cupcake Liner Flowers
- Cupcake liners (small or large is fine)
- Pony beads
- Chenille stems
- Craft glue
Button Flowers
- Buttons
- Chenille stems
Optional:
- small bead
- fabric or paper for leaf
Vase
- A craft or toilet paper tube (sturdy is better)
- Construction Paper
- Scissors
- Straight Edge or ruler
- Something to draw a line with
- Glue (glue sticks work well)
- Decorating bling
- Air-dry clay or Playdough
Steps to Make It
Felt Flowers
- Cut a long strip of felt or fabric (about 1½ to 2 inches tall and 8 to 10 inches long)
- Decide which edge is the top and cut a wavy pattern into it
- Attach a pony bead to your chenille stem by folding the stem in half and twisting
- This also makes sure your chenille stem can hold up your rose without drooping!
- Glue the felt to the chenille stem with the pony bead about halfway up it
- Roll the felt around the stem (try to keep the bottom even). Glue the bottom in spots if you need to.
- Glue the bottom HALF of the end of the felt roll down.
- Fold the top half of the felt roll over to make your rose
- If you want, you can cut a leaf out of the extra felt and glue it to your stem
Optional Bling:
- Pour a thin layer of glitter into your plate
- Apply a thin layer of craft glue to the top of the rose
- Tap the top of the rose in your glitter
- Let dry!
Cupcake Liner Flowers
- Take about 5-6 cupcake liners and flatten them all out (sort of)
- Fold your chenille stem in half and thread a pony bead onto it.
- Starting with one liner at a time, GENTLY poke the chenille stem ends through the middle and pull it up to the top under the beads
DO NOT PULL TOO HARD or it will tear. - Scrunch your liner up vertically so it is all folded in the middle.
- Add another liner and scrunch that one up around it
- Repeat until you like your rose
- Before you pull your last liner all the way up, put a layer of glue all the way around the bottom of the next-to-last liner
- Once you’ve scrunched your last liner up make sure to scrunch the bottom up into the glue you placed to hold it all together.
- If you want a leaf, fold a liner into quarters to make that and then glue it onto the chenille stem.
Button Flowers
- Pick out 3 to 5 buttons of various sizes
- Stack them up with the largest on the bottom and the smallest on the top
- Fold your chenille stem in half
- IF YOU WANT: Thread a small bead onto the chenille stem for the middle of your flower
- Starting with the smallest button, thread the two legs of your chenille stem through two holes in the button.
- Move from smallest to largest until all your buttons are on the chenille stems
- Twist all the way down to secure.
- Make a leaf with felt or paper scraps and glue it to your stems
Craft Tube Vase
- Use your craft tube to mark a line just the right height across the short side of the construction paper
- Mark the height of the craft tube on both ends of the short side
- Use your straight edge to connect the marks
- Cut off the strip of paper
- Glue it around your craft tube (it should wrap more than once)
- Roll out the clay to about 1/4″ thick
- Press your tube into it to create a weighted bottom
- Decorate with your bling!
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