Make Tissue Paper Flowers

Video Transcript

"In this clip we are going to see how to make a small paper flower from tissue paper. For this clip you will need two shades of tissue paper, some green stronger paper, some plastic straws sticky tape, a felt tip pen and scissors. To start off with I have got two shades of tissue paper, and they are roughly cut in squares, I'm going to layer them all up, put on something round and my sticky tape is exactly the right size for the job and draw around it carefully with the felt tip pen. Once we draw around we cut it out, if you hold it firmly do not let layers separate you can cut out several circles at the same time. Cut around just inside the blue line because we do not want that blue line showing on our flowers. All the way around mind your fingers please we do not want any accidents. So we have got lots of different tissue paper circles, each one needs to be separated and then we will attach them together. So find the center of the paper, pinch it and this is creasing it up and pinching it firm pinch in the middle I pull out at the sides, there is one, and you need a few more like that find the center, pinch the center and fluff up the sides. It does not matter if they do not come out exactly evenly I have got it longer at that side and shorter at that but that makes it look more like a real flower, real flowers are not perfectly even, there is the center pinch and fluff, there is another one and then some of the other shade if you have got a slightly different different shade of the same color it can make quite an interesting pattern. Pinch and fluff, pinch and fluff. And we need to attach all these together onto the straw so we need a length of sticky tape, which always gets stuck, here we are. Cut it off and have it ready, and then gather together your pieces of tissue that you have already fluffed. That is going to look very pretty a bit like a carnation I think. One at the other side of the deep red. All the little pinches at the bottom, attach them together with your sticky tape. Fiddly job but I think you can do it and you enjoy making things and then the last bit of stick tape is going to rap around the straw, and look again at your flower and make sure it is as fluffed up as it can be. That is ready to leave down there, take your piece of green paper fold it in half fold it in quarters and with this one I think we can fold it in eighths so we should get eight leaves from that. Now leaf shapes, start from the center and curve out to the edge and back to the center center, out to the edge and back to the center. And cut that out, and although we actually cut out one leaf when we open it out we should find we have got eight which will save us a lot of time there we go those leaves ready and they all need to be fixed on just a small amount of sticky tape. So with the sticky tape rap it round the petals down the length of the straw, and then if you just fold the petal the leaves in halve it makes them look as if they are growing there is another one fixed on, and then you have made your very own carnation. And you could do all sorts of different colors and make a bunch of them and maybe put them in a vase. There we go one tissue paper flower. And that is how to make a tissue paper flower."