Making Paper Hibiscus Flowers

Video Transcript

"Hibiscus flowers are very pretty and there's many different types out there. Hi my name is Robert Segundo and today I'm going to teach you how to make one out of paper. This is the typical looking hibiscus flower, this is off my tree. And what we are going to do is we are going to do something close to this or similar. So what we are going to do is we are going to take our pieces of paper here. As you can see I've cut you know several sheets here, about eight or so. And these are going to be the leaves for us. So what we are going to do is we are just going to take this, just fold it up. In one inch increments one way and flip our paper over and do it the other way and then we do it the other way. We are just going to keep going until we have used up all of our paper. There you go. And fold the last of it down like so. Now what we are going to do is we are going to take a pipe cleaner, a little green one here. And as you can see I used a couple of different colors here because there's many different colors of hibiscus out there. I just happen to have a red one and actually have a yellow one as well at my place of residence. I'm going to just twist my pipe cleaner around it like so. Just squish it up a little bit so it will stay locked in place. And then from here, it's just kind of up to you how you want to do it. Actually what we are going to do, I've got to do something here, bring it back, we are going to kind of, just kind of leaf cut these a little bit. You know just give it a little shape so when you go to unfold it, it doesn't look all squarish like you made it out of paper. And lets see. That's actually going to be way bigger then our plants, so lets take it down just a little bit more. There we go. Now what we are going to do is we are going to take it and just kind of open it up, make a good look on it, we can use our flower for reference here, just kind of pull it out to where it resembles a hibiscus. Pull some of them out, pull some of the peach up, so you can see the orange underneath and basically you are going to play with it. I mean it doesn't have to look exactly like it and if you want to you can take a little bit of green and make some leaves out of your, for your pipe cleaner here out of green tissue paper. We just keep playing with it until it actually looks like a hibiscus. I mean it looks like it right now almost. I mean it's just really a sloppy flower, it's not very put together well so. Anyway just play around with it have fun and enjoy."