by Jessie on May 10, 2012
Everyone loves flowers so why not make some that last all year long. These felt flowers require only a few materials that you probably already have around the house:
Felt in various colors
Buttons
Wire -stiff enough to stand up straight but not too hard to bend (we used foral wire strips)
Scissors
Hot Glue & Hot Glue Gun
Begin by cutting out the felt pieces. You will need petals, a center (pistil), and leaves. Feel free to get creative and make them different shapes and sizes. You will also want to twist the end of the wire into a spiral so that you can glue the petals and then the round piece and finally the button to it using hot glue. You will also glue the base of the leaves to the wire (notice the little notch at the bottom of the leaves).
There are many ways to modify this and we also made tulip shaped flowers. Notice the cone shape that we created at the top of the wire. You can glue the petals around that so that it looks more like the cup shape of a tulip and add a circle of felt on the bottom to hide the glue.
Here is another creative design that Chieko’s daughter came up with. It is a Lily, complete with stamen!
Have fun and happy Mother’s Day!
Looking for a great, simple project that you and the kids can make for Mother’s Day? How about one of these lovely vases? All you need are some old bottles, puff paint and spray paint.
We used kombucha bottles because of their cool shape and because once you get the labels off they are completely smooth. We also tried both 3D Gloss Enamel and regular fabric Puff Paint to see if either one worked better. And then we just grabbed all of the spray paint that we had around the house. Both the puff paint and the gloss enamel worked equally well so just use whatever you already have or whatever is easiest to find.
Step 1: Clean your bottles, removing all labels.
Step 2: Decorate your jars with your puff paint. We found it useful to draw possible designs on paper first.
Step 3: If there are any parts of your design that you aren’t happy with, just take a damp paper towel and you can easily wipe it off before it dries.
Step 4: Put your finished jars in a safe place where they can dry and mom can’t see them! They will need to dry for possibly 24 hours depending on your design.
Step 5: Spray paint your jars and let them dry again.
That’s it! You now have adorable vases to give to mom for Mother’s Day. Fill them with fresh flowers or stay tuned for our next tutorial on felt/button flowers!
