Paper Flowers and Vase

Make some cute springtime flowers out of pages from old magazines, and display them in a vase made from an empty plastic bottle.

MATERIALS:

Flowers:

scraps of paper (magazines, catalogs, mail, construction paper, etc)

CD for tracing

pencil

scissors

adhesive tape

glue

straws

Vase:

clean, plastic bottle

decorative paper to wrap around plastic bottle

scissors

adhesive tape

DIRECTIONS:

Flowers:

1. Place the CD on a piece of paper and trace with pencil. Cut out circle.

2. Fold circle in half several times as you would a paper snowflake, and cut out a petal shape.

3. Repeat steps 1 and 2 to make a few flower shapes.

4. Layer each flower shape, fastening with tape on the backside of each.

5. Adhere a straw on the back of the assembled flower to make a stem.

Vase:

1. Cut the decorative paper to be a little bit taller than the height of the bottle, so when the paper is wrapped around, the entire bottle will be covered.

2. Wrap the paper around the bottle, fastening with adhesive tape.



3. Place paper flowers inside!