How to Make a Pipe Cleaner Flower

Video Transcript

" Hi this is Andrew Jenkins on behalf of expertvillage.com. Now in this clip I'm going to be telling you about pipe cleaner crafts specifically how to make a nice little pipe cleaner flower like this. Now pipe cleaners flowers are one of the most popular pipe cleaner crafts that exist today. People like to put them in gardens, they look great they attract bees and insects that like to pollinate your garden and make it better because of the bright colors on top of the pipe cleaner. Now what you are going to need are two 12 inch long green pipe cleaners and one pipe cleaner of your chose whatever color that you want the flower to be. I have chosen purple just to go along with this one. You take your one pipe cleaner and you are going to make the leafs that goes on your flower with one of the green pipe cleaners. Bend it over to the center and tie off the loose ends so you got something that looks like a little bit like this and you could shape these to look like whatever sort of leafs you want. If you like to put a little point on the end of our leafs some look like that and you got that. Set that a side for now and you take your color piece that is going to be used for the top of the flower. Put that into a circle and twist off the two ends of the circle so you go a nice little loop. Now from that loop go ahead and bend it over once in the middle. Right and then tie that off and then do the same thing for each of the little loops that you have created. So in effect you get something that sort of looks like a little single ...going on like that. You are going to join those into a circle tie it off and then pop on the long stem of your flower and put the leafs on just like this. Loop it all the way around and then your leafs are staying on there. Then you take top end of it and you put in serve that in your pipe cleaner stem. Put a little kink on the top so it stays right like that and just mold it a little to your likening and there you go. You got a lovely pipe cleaner flower."