It's spring! I love spring. It's a beautiful time of the year that blossoms with promise. Just knowing that it's spring makes me feel better, but sometimes it takes a little time for me to actually feel like it's spring. Maybe the flowers haven't fully bloomed in my neck of the woods or I'm still feeling cold and shaking off my winter blues. This year I decided to give my mood a lift and bring spring indoors by making beautiful paper flowers out of coffee filters.
Read more ¿Qué más?: Easy & fun family crafts for the first day of Spring!
You will need:
- Coffee/Tea filters
- Floral wire
- Wire cutters
- An Exacto-knife or something sharp to make holes in the filters
- An empty spray bottle
- Tempera paint or food coloring of your choice
- Water
- Green jute twine
To make the flowers:
- Divide the coffee/tea filters into stacks of 8.
- Fold the stacks of 8 in half, then in half again.
How_to_make_coffee_filter_flowers - Cut the top edges of the quartered filters into what makes them look like a heart for petals.
- Unfold the filters, lay them flat, and use an exacto-knife or sharp blade to poke two tiny holes in the center of them.
- Thread a piece of floral wire through one hole and out the other hole. Use wire cutters to cut the wire to desired length. I kept my wire short and twisted it around itself to form a sort of loop in the back.
DIY_Paper_Flowers - Starting from the top layer, fold the filters toward you, one layer at a time until they take the form of a flower.
To color the flowers:
- Put a few drops of food coloring or a few squirts of tempera paint into an empty spray bottle and a good amount of water, shake it up until the color and water are one.
- Spray the flowers with the mixture and then let them dry completely.
To arrange the flowers:
- You can put 4 in a vase like I did. Since my vase was clear, I took some ginger leaves from my backyard and wrapped them on the inside of the vase.
- You can make a large pompom of flowers by attaching them together. I just twisted the floral wire on the back of the flowers together and then hung them on the wall from a piece of green jute twine that I braided.
These flowers make me perk up every time I look at them and they never wilt!
Images via Claudya Martinez