DLTK's Holiday Activities
Christmas Tissue Paper Flowers and Juice Jar Vase
I've given directions for making the flowers and for making the
vase. You don't have to do them both... you can make some flowers
and put them in a store bought vase or you can make the vase and put in
some silk flowers.
There are 4 different types of flowers you can make. Red, Green and
White flowers all look great. If you happen to use all red flowers
with the large pointed petals it will look like poinsettia flowers.
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Materials for the Vase:
- juice jar (750 ml)
- paper
mache paste (1 part flour to 5 parts water... boil about 3 minutes
and let cool)
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strips of white paper
- paint or markers to decorate
Materials for one flower:
- tissue paper (Red, green and/or white for flowers and a bit of yellow or
white for the center)
- straw
- cotton ball
- scissors
- scotch tape (or floral tape)
- OPTIONAL: Gold ribbon
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Directions for making the vase:
- Paper mache the jar (cover with 2 layers newspaper with one
layer white paper over top of that) or just cover with 3 layers of
white paper
- Let dry (takes about a day for the paper mache to dry)
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- decorate the jar with paint or markers. You can paint the
whole jar another color or leave it white and add some design with a
color that matches your flowers.
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Directions for making a flower:
- cut a square of tissue paper (white or yellow) about 2" by
2"
- put a small piece of cotton (about 1/4 of a cotton ball in the
center.
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- scrunch the cotton filled tissue paper around the end of the straw
and wrap a piece of scotch tape around it
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- Put 4 or 5 petals around the cotton filled tissue paper. Tape
them on.
- Continue adding rows of petals until you have a nice full
flower. You'll need at least 4 rows of them.
- Fluff the petals out a bit to shape your flower.
- OPTIONAL: add a bow out of gold ribbon at the top of the vase.
- OPTIONAL: spritz a bit of perfume on your flower to scent it.
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I've included a picture of ONE of the flowers made with each template so you
get a feel for how they look. Each flower has 20 to 30 petals in it.
These templates aren't printable... just use the images as a guide when cutting
out your petals.
