What's more appropriate for spring than flowers? Some people have already been able to enjoy the first snowdrops, but it will still take a while for them to really become colorful. But not if you make your own flowers! How about making beautiful tulips, but this time not out of plain paper like you usually do?
There are plenty of craft materials available. So if you want to use something other than simple construction paper, you'll quickly find it. This is also the case in the following collection of ideas for beautiful spring tulips. (Okay, we admit: a little paper is needed here and there.)
A beautiful spring bouquet of pipe cleaners
This pretty tulip bouquet is made exclusively from pipe cleaners and can be made in any color. Present your work as a bouquet in a vase or in a minimalist way with a single flower. By the way, a bouquet like this is also a wonderful gift idea (e.g.for Valentine's Dayor Women's Day).
- green pipe cleaners
- Pipe cleaners in any other colors for the flowers
- wire
- green florist ribbon
How to make tulips quickly and easily:
- Take a pipe cleaner in a color intended for the flower.
- Fold it in half and form the shape of a petal of the size you want.
- Twist the wire ends several times at the desired location.
- Then fold the end back in the opposite direction, i.e. along the petal you just formed.
- Put the ends through the loop and bring them back to the other petal end, where you thread them through the loop again.
- Depending on how much wire you still have to stick out, you can repeat the whole thing one more time or move on to the next step.
- Twist the remaining ends together and you will have your first petal.
- For the leaves, place two green pipe cleaners crosswise and wrap one around the other two or three times.
- Then bring all four ends together so that you have a sheet of four wires.
- Now tie the petals to the wire.
- Wrap the wire with florist's tape. Also include the leaves below.
Cool idea:You could also make one from the flowers of tulipsMake a garland. Simply tie them to a string or thread them onto string using a needle.
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Make tulips with wooden forks
And here we come to the first idea, for which you still need some construction paper unless you replace itthrough foam rubberor felt for example.
- wooden forks
- Acrylic paints
- green paper
- Paper for background
- Glue, scissors
- Googly eyes
Make the tulips out of construction paper and wooden forks:
- Paint the heads and forks the colors you want for the flowers and the stems green for the stems.
- Allow the colors to dry.
- In the meantime you can cut out the leaves.
- Position the flowers to then find the right place for the leaves.
- Glue the latter in place and the flowers on top.
- Add the googly eyes and, if you like, smiling mouths.
Make your own flowers from toilet paper rolls without gluing
All you need for this fun project is paint and toilet roll. You will receive tulips to display with which you can decorate the rooms.
- Squeeze the roll.
- Draw the outline of a tulip in pencil. The lateral edges of the leaves and flowers should be at the folds
- Cut out the spring flower. The areas just mentioned (at the folds) willnotcut through.
- You can now use the resulting shape as a template for additional toilet paper rolls.
- Paint the flowers in the colors you want and let them dry. Complete!
Make tulips out of egg carton and pipe cleaners
You can quickly and easily create tulip flowers from the egg carton cups by simply cutting the edges in a wavy shape. The typical tulip spikes are also suitable. Paint the flowers and insert pipe cleaners through them for the stems and leaves. You can hide the hole with a button. Or you can glue a second cup inside to create a double flower at the same time.
Original idea with pistachio shells
Maybe you have oursPost with the pistachio crocusesseen. You can also make tulips in the same way. It may seem complicated at first, but it really isn't. And it's so easy to make tulips out of crepe paper and pistachio shells:
- Pistachio shells
- Acrylic paints and brushes
- liquid glue
- wire
- Floristenband
- Crepe paper or other material for the leaves
To make the cool 3D tulips, first make the flowers and then the leaves:
- Apply liquid glue along the edge of the bowl.
- Glue a second half of the shell onto it.
- After the glue has dried, paint the pistachio flowers in the colors you want.
- Cut wire to the desired length for the stem and wrap it with the ribbon.
- Cut out oblong leaf shapes from the crepe paper and curve them a little with your fingers.
- Glue them to the stem.
Make your own bookmark out of wire
With wire you can make such nice thingsMake bookmarks, which are also perfect as a gift. You will also need wire cutters and nippers to cut the wire, as well as a round object to help you shape it (a pen, for example).
It's best to start at the spiral and then work your way to the other end. You are welcome to come up with a different shape for the tulip. Just experiment a bit. Only cut off the excess wire when the shape is finished. This will prevent the wire from turning out to be too short.
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