We are big fans of tissue paper in our house and we have used it for many art projects. Recently, we combined it with coffee filters to make some Spring flowers. You will love how the colors from the tissue paper transfer when wet to create these paper flowers. If you are looking for more flower activities, check out Pressing Flowers with Kids.
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You will need:
- Torn tissue paper in various colors
- Coffee filter
- Green pipe cleaner
- Brush
- Water in a cup
- Paper plate
To make these coffee filter flowers, you will not be gluing the tissue paper to the coffee filters. This confused my daughters at first who kept asking how the tissue paper would stick to the coffee filter. You will just be transfer the color of the tissue paper to the coffee filter using a brush with water.
Have your child place the torn tissue paper on the coffee filter and “paint” over it with the brush and water.
When they do this, the color from the tissue paper will start to bleed on to the coffee filter.
Let the coffee filter dry.
When it has dried, peel off the tissue paper to reveal a beautiful color pattern.
Gather the coffee filter to make a flower shape and attach a green pipe cleaner to make the flower.
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This looks fun!
We have all the materials we need to make these — right now!! I love crafts like that. The flowers are beautiful. My youngest son has enjoyed picking daffodils from the yard this spring. I think he would love this activity. Thank you and I pinned this too!
Sweet flowers, thank you for sharing. I like how the kids can see the colour moving.
Thank you for sharing your project on A Crafty Soiree! I'll be featuring you this week and I hope you'll be by to see it and link up more of your fabulous ideas! I think a bouquet of these colorful blooms would be just the thing for the kiddos to make for Grandma for Mother's Day!
Very nice!
These turned out SO cute! What a fun idea! I featured this today at TGIF – http://www.123homeschool4me.com/2013/05/tgif-linky-party-74.html
Feel free to grab an I was featured button if you like. Thanks for sharing your creativity with the rest of us & I hope you'll stop by and link up again today!!
Have a great weekend,
Beth
These are so cute, a side note though when I did this with my kids our hands stained with color, use caution. I think I will also try to use crepe paper which comes in vibrant colors and is cheaper. Love it!
Lisa, I did not have that experience with our hands staining. Maybe we used a different kind of tissue paper? Please let me know how it goes with crepe paper.