HOW TO MAKE TISSUE PAPER SUNFLOWERS
Celebrate summer with these bright and happy paper tissue sunflowers!
Ingredients
Instructions
- For the sunflower, you're going to need two sheets of four colors -- brown, light yellow, dark yellow, and green. Start with one color of your tissue paper. Fold the two sheets of tissue paper in half.
- Fold in half again.
- Find the corner with all of the separate pieces of paper (not one with a fold). Take this corner and fold it to the opposite edge to make a triangle.
- Trim off the extra rectangle of paper.
- When you open up the triangle to make a square, you'll notice that some edges still have a fold. Trim off that edge by slipping your scissors into the fold and cut to separate all the pieces of paper. Basically, you want eight individual squares.
- Fold the paper, accordion style. Should end up with six or seven folds.
- Separate each of your layers -- two pieces of brown for the center, four pieces of yellow for the petals, and two pieces of green for the leaves. Trim each set like this:Brown: fringeGreen: triangleYellow: round
- Then nest all of your layers back together in the same order.
- Staple the accordion in the center.
- Carefully start to separate the layers of the sunflower. Pull from the inside of each layer, as opposed to out on each edge. This will help keep the flowers from tearing.
- Keep fluffing the layers until you have half the flower, then fluff the other side. Once you have it all fluffed, crinkle the brown center a bit and use your scissors to clean up any long pieces or weirdly shaped petals.
