Coffee Filter Flowers made with Tissue Paper

These Coffee Filter Flowers made with Tissue Paper are one of our spring activities for kids that are simple enough for even young children to make.

Combining tissue paper and coffee filters is a perfect way to make some colorful spring flowers, which work wonderfully as gifts or decorations. If you are looking for more flower activities, check out Sponge Flowers!

 Coffee Filter Flowers made with Tissue Paper

You will need:

• Torn tissue paper in various colors
• Coffee filter
• Green pipe cleaner
• Brush
• Water in a cup
• Paper plate

For these coffee filter flowers made with tissue paper, 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 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 stem. There you have it! You can make one or an entire bouquet! Check out Fun A Day for another take on coffee filter flowers. They are so eye catching!

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