4th of July Flower Decorations
- June 30th, 2009
- Posted in Craft Ideas
What is a celebration without decorations? When it comes to the 4th of July, those decorations had better be red, white and blue. You can’t get much more American than the colors on the flag. Since there has to be decorations, why not make easy ones so little ones can help, too. Get the kids and grown-ups, gather around the table, and make 4th of July flower decorations.
Make crafty tissue paper flowers. Each person making flowers can tell stories of 4th of Julys past to share family history and enjoy one another’s company. Stories will probably help make the task at hand go quicker, as well.
Craft supplies needed:
* Tissue paper (red, white, and blue)
* Green pipe cleaners
* Red, white and blue ribbon
Pile together four to six pieces of tissue paper approximately 8” x 10” in size. If you like, use all the same color, or alternate between red, white, and blue pieces. Once your pieces are piled one on top of the other, and sitting square, fold them like an accordion.
Fold the tissue paper accordion in half. Using a green pipe cleaner, tie the center of your folded paper together. You can add ‘leaves’ made from the pipe cleaners if you plan on placing the flowers into vases.
Very gently pull each piece of tissue paper upwards towards the top center of the flower. Make sure you separate each sheet of paper from the next. This is how you are going to form the petals of your flower.
Make as many of these flowers as you wish. Once you have enough to make bouquets, you can tie the flowers together with a big bow made from the ribbon. The bouquets can be attached to grapevine wreaths for your front door.
Another idea would be to make many flowers this way, and make artificial flower pots to put on the picnic tables or buffet tables at your 4th of July party. Fill inexpensive flower pots with florist’s foam or small clean gravel. Then you can add the flowers you made with the tissue paper into the pots, and have instant garden-looking flowers on all of the tables.
If you’d like to make 4th of July flower decorations that smell like real flowers, you could make Souvenir Perfumed Flowers. You’ll want to have the following supplies available:
* Tissue paper (white, red)
* Scissors
* Tacky glue
* 6” Ribbon for each flower
* Card stock
* Perfume
Draw the shape of a flower on a piece of card stock. Cut it out and use to trace this shape on as many pieces of card stock as you need. Cut out all the other cards as well.
Cut several pieces of each color of tissue paper into 2” square pieces. Crumple each piece into a tight ball. Dip each tissue paper ball into the tacky glue and then press it on the cardstock flower pattern. You can choose to use all white, all red, or both colors. Continue doing this until the whole card stock pattern is covered.
Glue the 6” piece of ribbon to the back of one of the flower petals in a loop shape for hanging. Spray the flower with a little bit of perfume, and hand them out at your 4th of July party to aunts, grandmas, and your mom, of course!
