How To Make Crepe Paper Flowers

• Crepe Paper
• Green A4 Paper
• Sticky Tape
• Scissors

Take your sheet of A4 paper (it can be smaller if you are making smaller flowers) and lay it flat on the table

Roll the paper diagnolly into a tight tube. You can start off by making a small fold to make it easier.

If it's not tight straight away unroll and try again, it's easier the second time.

Secure with some sticky tape.

Cut off one end of your crepe paper (about 3 inches deep) and unroll it.

Roll it back up over and over to the width of your petals (about 1 1/2 inches for this flower).

Cut out the shape of your petal leaving the bottom half of the roll intact.

We used 25 petals for this part of the flower but you can use more or less depending how full you want your flower to be.

Unroll your crepe paer and take each petal between your thumbs and forefingers and gently stretch the crepe paper, it will only stretch in one direction.

Dont worry if you tear a petal, you can either cut it off the roll or cut it into a new petal shape.

You should be left with a strip of petals similar to this.

Take your paper stem you made earlier and cut off the first inch or so (this will make it stronger).

Secure the roll of petals to the stem about half way down the first petal making sure they are bending outwards.

Wrap the roll of petals around the stem quite tightly two times.

Continue wrapping the roll of petals getting looser as you go, you will need to scrunch the bottom of the petals as you wind, overlaping slightly over the previous petal.

Secure with sticky tape as you go to stop them unraveling.

You should end up with something looking like this!

Make another roll of crepe paper a little bit bigger than your first roll enough for 10 - 12 leaves. We used a different colour but it's ok to use the same colour as before.

Cut the roll as before but this time into more of a leaf shape making sure not to cut through the bottom part.

Stretch the out as before between your thumbs and forefingers.

Secure the leaves to the last petal and continue wrapping them around securing as you go and finishing by wrapping a longer piece of sticky tape around the leaves and the stem.

Gently pull the petals and leaves out and down until you are happy with the shape.

And there you have your first crepe paper flower! Why not make a whole bunch?