How to Make a Valentine's Rose

Make chocolate and red foam flower arrangements for Valentine's day.

Make beautiful rosebud flowers to give to friends and family on Valentine's day. Create a chocolate Valentine's rose or a foam rose, or combine the different roses to make a special bouquet for everyone you know. Tie the small rose bouquet with a ribbon (this way your valentine can enjoy something sweet), and decorate their table or desk with the no-wilt foam roses. These Valentine's roses require only a few minutes to make and you only need a few materials to make them.

Things You'll Need

• Lollipop sticks Green construction paper Scissors Black sharpie marker Hot glue gun or white craft glue Chenille stems Red foam

Instructions

Chocolate Roses

1. Fold green construction paper in half and cut leaf shapes from the folded half, so that when you open the folded leaf you will have two leaves joined together.

2. Glue a red foil-wrapped drop chocolate to a lollipop with the point facing upward like a rose bud. Use a hot glue gun to make the glue dry faster.

3. Wrap one set of folded green construction leaves around the lollipop stick. Add a message to your leaf. Use different shapes of foil-wrapped chocolates (e.g., kisses) to to make more roses.

Red Foam Roses

1. Cut a chenille stem in half. Take another chenille stem and bend it in half. Twist the bent edge of the stem around itself until you twist the entire stem. Keep the ends even or cut so they are even.

2. Cut seven 1-inch teardrop shapes from red foam. Cut three 3/4-inch tear-shaped petals from the same red foam.

3. Shape and glue the petals in a rose form. Place a 1-inch teardrop flat on the table. Glue the open twisted edges to the pointed side of your rose petal. Glue another petal behind the first petal with the pointy side down again. Place a third petal to the back of the first petal on the other side and glue in place. Continue gluing petals to each side of the forming flower. Begin curving the flower and gluing in this curved form. You should have three petals on each side of the first. Glue a last small petal to a side and pull it in front of the chenille stem and glue to the stem. Use the other two petals to make the flower circle and glue to the chenille stem. Allow the flower to dry.

4. Bend and shape the flower petals to give the rose a nicer shape once the glue has dried.

5. Bend two loops into the half chenille stem you cut and twist it around the chenille stem to form a leaf on either side of the stem.

References

• Amazing Moms: Valentines day Roses
• Crafts Kaboose: Foam Roses