Make Flowers Made of Toilet Paper

Making flowers is a great way to decorate space. You can do so inexpensively and add your personal touch to a room. Toilet paper is a great medium to use when trying to make flowers. It is an easy way to create an interest piece for a room. Plus, you can add color, or you can use the leftover toilet paper rolls to make more flowers.

Steps

Making Basic Flowers

  1. Gather your materials. This basic flower only requires a couple things. You’ll need toilet paper and a pipe cleaner. If you don’t have a pipe cleaner, you can use an elastic, a piece of tape, or a bobby pin.
  2. Create the base of your flower. Take your toilet paper, 2-6 pieces depending on the volume of the flower you wish to make, and pile them on top of one another. Line up your toilet paper squares and pinch them in the middle, creating a bow-like shape. Take your pipe cleaner and wrap it twice tightly around the middle of the toilet paper. This will replace your fingers in holding the bow shape.[1]
  3. Create your petals. Hold onto the center of your flower (where the pipe cleaner is holding it together). Use your other hand to fan and fluff your flower petals. Pull the layers of toilet paper apart and rearrange them creatively to form your flower petals. You can gather, bunch, pull, or even cut these petals to give them the shape you want.[2]
    • While you want to see how far you can stretch your flower petals, be sure to do so carefully. Toilet paper is prone to rip if you pull it with force.
  4. Repeat the process. Once you get the hang of creating the petals, you can make them in minutes. Repeat the flower-making process with different amounts of toilet paper and start cutting different sizes for different flowers. You can attach them to almost anything by wrapping the stem of your pipe cleaner around a frame. Try making a wreath or bouquet for an interest piece in a room.

Dying Your Flowers

  1. Make your dye. Simply place a few drops of color with a 2 tablespoons of water in a shallow dish. The more drops of food coloring you use, the more vibrant your dye will be. To keep it more natural looking, stick to one drop of food coloring with your water.[2]
  2. Dye the tips. Carefully dip the tips of your flower into the dye. Keep it upside down until your petals dry. This will take anywhere from 5-30 minutes, depending how heavily you dipped your flowers.
    • Because you’ve used toilet paper, it will soak up the dye very, very quickly. Remember this when dipping the tips of the petals. You barely need to touch the dye to add a lot of color quickly to your petals.
  3. Use multiple colors. Use different dishes to use multiple colors for your flowers. Once you’re comfortable enough dipping them, you can even use different colors per flower. To do this, simply roll the outside tips gently through the dye and then dip the taller petals into your second color.[2]

Using the Roll

  1. Gather your materials. These flowers look more like a cast iron sculpture than the fluffy flowers made with toilet paper. You’ll need empty toilet paper rolls—you can use any amount you want—glue, a pen, and scissors.[3]
    • A hot glue gun works best.
  2. Flatten and mark your toilet paper rolls. Take the rolls and squish them so that they are flat. They’ll bounce back once you start using them, but you want the two creases you’ve created to be noticeable. Once you’ve flattened your rolls, use a pen to mark your toilet paper roll in fourths.[3]
  3. Make your petals. Cut along the lines that you’ve marked to make petals of even width. Once you have all the petals you need, start to give them their shape. Help them bounce back toward their original shape. Press the creased parts into each other. You should end up with your cardboard holding an oval shape.
  4. Glue your peals together. Place glue along the bottom crease of one of your petals. Glue it to the bottom crease of another petal. Continue attaching petals, one at a time. Making a traditional flower will only take 4-8 petals.
    • Attach multiple flowers together to make an interest piece. Spray paint it black, and hang it as if it is metal.
    • Try attaching a jewel with glue as the center of your flower.
  5. Finished.

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Sources and Citations

  1. ↑ http://www.marthastewart.com/265163/pom-poms-and-luminarias-how-to
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 http://www.easy-home-made.com/coffee-filter-flowers.html
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 http://encyclopedia.toiletpaperworld.com/diy-toilet-paper-projects
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