Do you need a colorful boost today? Or do you need a quick and fun activity to do with your kids? Why not try your hand at making a lovely bouquet of coffee filter flowers too?
Materials Needed to Make Coffee Filter Flowers:
- Coffee filters
- Food coloring
- Dropper (or paint brush)
- Shallow baking pan
- Paper Towels
- Scissors
- Masking Tape
- Pipe Cleaners
How to Make Coffee Filter Flowers:
Dye the coffee filters with food coloring:
1. Mix together a couple of drops of food coloring with some water to dilute it. Place a couple of coffee filters in a shallow baking pan. Then, give your kid a dropper (or a paint brush) and let him dye the filters different colors.
2. Once the coffee filters are dyed, place them on paper towels and let them dry. (Psst- Aren't the colors beautiful?)
Cut Coffee Filter Flower Shapes:
3. Once your coffee filters dry, it's time to cut some coffee filter flowers shapes! Take three filters and fold them all together in half.
4. Then, fold them in half again till you get a quarter of a filter.
5. Then, fold them in half again till you get an eight of a filter.
6. Then, cut out petal shapes.
Make Coffee filter flowers:
7. Now it's time to make some coffee filter flowers! Take one flower and scrunch it in the middle.
8. Then, place a pipe cleaner right next to it.
9. Then, scrunch another coffee filter and place it next to your pipe cleaner.
10. Then, tape everything together tightly with masking tape.
11. Now it's time to cover up the masking tape. Fold up your pipe cleaner. Then, twist it around your masking tape to hide it with lovely green pipe cleaner "stem."
Now you've got a lovely bouquet of coffee filter flowers that you can keep for your own home...
or give them away to someone that you love!
Or, just wrap them around pens to create lovely, springy coffee filter flower pens.
Looking for more Coffee Filter Crafts?
Coffee Filter Pinata Style Letter
Looking for other Spring flower crafts and activities?
Check out these links below!
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Happy Crafting!
How adorable! I may have to try this - they would be really sweet on someone's desk, for example! :)
ReplyDeleteAllison Katelyn @ Http://SimpleSilverLinings.blogspot.com
Thanks Allison!
DeleteOh, I love them on pencils!
ReplyDeleteThanks Lisa!
DeleteThese are beautiful! Sharing with our facebook followers! Thanks for the great idea! :)
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DeleteHow long do they take to dry?
ReplyDeleteIf I remember correctly, ours just dried overnight.
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