How to Dry Flowers

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By jpwriter
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Drying Flowers

Instead of throwing out your bouquet of flowers, dry them. Maybe you don't have an entire bouquet, but like drying small flowers for sentiment. Perhaps you use dried flowers on craft projects. Here's a way to dry them.

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

2-3 feet of thin rope
aerosol hairspray
ceiling lamp
flowers
newspaper
vase
small piece of yarn

Step 1

Any kind of flower you like.

Arrange flowers in the way you want to keep them. For example, if they are going into a vase when dry, you'll want to arrange them to make sure they fit, or look nice in the vase.
Step 2

Tie yarn around the middle of the stems of the arranged flowers. This will stay on the flowers after they are dry.
Step 3

Rope your flowers.

Wrap one side of rope around the bottom of the bouquet below the yarn. Make sure the rope is tight enough to hold the weight of the flowers. Test this by holding the flowers upside down holding them by the rope.
Step 4

Wrap the other side of the rope around a ceiling lamp.
Step 5

Use cheap aerosol hairspray.

Spray the entire bouquet of flowers, including leaves and stems, with hairspray. Spray upward and directly on the flowers to avoid a hairspray mess.
Step 6

Place the newspaper under the hanging bouquet of flowers in case a petal falls and to avoid mess.
Step 7

Add more hairspray in 2-3 days. Continue to spray the flowers every 3 days, decreasing the amount over approximately 2 weeks. Touch the flowers to test the dryness. They are dry when the petals feel as though they will break in your hand.