This is a fun project to do at home or in a class room. If you don’t have plastic bags to spare, I am sure your friends will, you may also reuse tissue paper.At home we chose to decorate our bare tree in our backyard.
You will need:
· Used plastic bags (the noisy kind) . Each flower requires 10-12 single sheets of nylon (5-6 plastic bags)
· Scissors
· Pipe cleaner
· String
How to:
· Flatten all plastic bags, pile them one on top of the other, and smooth them straight. If you have different size bags, organize them by size.
· Trim handles and bottom of bags. You should have the bags as tubes now, stretch them out and keep them flat.
· Trim sides, so you have single sheets.
· Fold the sheets of nylon stacked on top of each other like an accordion.
· Twist the pipe cleaner over the center of the accordion; you may make a small loop at the end of the pipe cleaner so you can tie a string to it.
· Trim both ends into either a pointy shape or a curved shape as desired.
· Fan out the ends into a butterfly shape.
· Open up the flower by peeling each layer separately. Do the same on both sides.
· Fluff the layers of nylon to get a full and puffy flower. Give it a little hair cut if needed.
Things to think about:
· Depending on the plastic bags you have, you may make nice color combination.
· The flowers are great for outside as well as inside
· An easy and inexpensive solution for a birth day decoration
· If you make them smaller, you may use the pipe cleaner that ties the flowers as the stem.
