Home crafted Tulips for Mother's Day!

Nice decoration for Spring or a gift for Mother's Day to create together with the kids!  

 

What do you need?

• heavy quality construction paper (about 270 g / m² in weight) in all sorts of tulip colors plus green for the leaves
• wooden skewers
• green acrylic paint
• paint brush
• (craft) glue
• green felt tip marker
• foam pad or the backside of an used mouse pad
• the flat side of a dull knife



 

fig 1

Draw similar shapes on a piece of sturdy cardboard such as a cereal box. Crease the line down the middle of the tulip template so it can be folded in half. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cut out, from the coloured contruction paper, 4 tulips and 1 leaf for each tulip you wish to make.

 

Place the foam pad (or back of mouse pad) as a work surface.

 

Take the folded tulip cardboard and use the dull knife to crease down the center of each tulip piece you've cut out.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Make the edge flat and crisp with the back of a knife.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Glue two tulip sides together so that it looks like this. Then glue the other two tulip halves the same way.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

If your edges do not perfectly match, that is no problem. Just trim it down with scissors if necessary.

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Paint the skewers green and let them dry

 

Then glue the two halves together with a skewer end sandwiched about 1-2 centimeters between the halves. Use paper clips to hold it all together until the glue dries if necessary. 

Then use a green felt tip marker to draw the curve down the leaf like you see on fig 1. Now you can glue a leaf onto the skewer.
 

Repeat these steps for as many tulips as you like. The more, the merrier!