Exploring Our Children’s Potentials

Out of all the arts and crafts ideas on this site, I noticed ‘Making : Lily Paper Flowers‘ is one of the favourites.

And so I thought today I’ll share with you another flower-making idea.

Paper Carnation Flowers

(or, something that looks like it, hehe).

Another one of those simple yet nice arts and crafts projects you and your little one can do together.

What we used :

– Coloured Paper

– Crepe Paper

– Straws (for the stalks)

– Scissors and glue

What we did:

– Cut thin strips across the rectangular coloured paper and crepe paper

Note that you need to cut through more than 50% of the length to make ‘nicer’ petals’

– Glue one end of it to a straw, and start ‘twirling’ it around the straw. Glue the other end together.

– Spread out the ‘petals’

And that’s it! Can’t be any easier!

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We did two different versions afterwards.

Version 1 : we added another layer using coloured paper.

Version 2 : we added TWO layers just to see how it turned out.

And when we’re done we thought to ourselves, hey … they all look nice!

[And Anya asked if she could keep them in her personal cupboard, so that she can keep them ‘forever’]