Crepe Paper Flowers
I originally made these Crepe Paper Flowers for the Teacher Lounge at my kids school during Teacher Appreciation Week. Basically, there’s zero money to decorate a Teacher Lounge so we really had to brainstorm what we could make and we discovered Crepe Paper is cheap and goes a long way. I never knew there was like a million ways to use Crepe Paper until Pinterest came around either. Heck, I was still calling them Streamers. It’s now one of my favorite things .
How to make Crepe Paper Flowers:
- Punch a circle out of scrapbook paper to match your Crepe Paper color.
- Cover the circle in hot glue
- Keeping the Crepe Paper grain out, start adhering and overlapping the paper around the edge of the circle.
- Keep overlapping the Crepe Paper by adding more hot glue as needed until your happy with the flower layers.
- Snip off the end of the Crepe Paper at a diagonal.
- Scrunch flower to add fullness to the layers.
- Hot glue a button or another embellishment to the center of the flower.
- Adhere a bamboo skewer on to the back of the flower, underneath the circle.
- Hand cut leaves if desired.
These Crepe Paper Flowers turned out so pretty and are perfect to make as a quick decoration! The flowers can be made in various sizes too depending on the size of the circle base you start with. If you don’t have time to make them now, click to print off step by step instructions for later!
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Bre Eggert says
August 28, 2014 at 6:51 pmHi, Holly! OMG these are SO cute! I am pinning to my party decor board – thanks for the inspiration! I would love it if you would link up at our On Display Thursday link party, which is live now. We’d love to have this added! http://www.averagebutinspired.com/2014/08/on-display-thursday-no-9-inspire-be.html
Heidi@OneCreativeMommy.com says
August 29, 2014 at 3:18 pmThese are beautiful! Pinning. My daughter made some with the girls her age at church for Mother’s Day. They didn’t have button centers. I think the buttons really make these adorable!
Erica says
August 29, 2014 at 4:33 pmLovely! These flowers would make a nice wreath. Pinning this.
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Gabe and Libby says
August 30, 2014 at 8:22 amThat is so clever. I love the polk a dots…don’t think I’ve ever seen patterned crepe paper.
Jill R. says
August 31, 2014 at 4:44 pmHow adorable these flowers are! Pinning and sharing this now so that my daughter and I can make some in the spring 🙂
Andi says
September 1, 2014 at 3:33 amWhat a great project to make when kids visit the house, love it!
Heidi says
March 31, 2015 at 12:39 pmThese are absolutely adorable! I love the polka dots, too. So cute.
Holly Gagnon says
March 31, 2015 at 9:43 pmThank you Heidi! Holly 🙂
Mindi says
April 5, 2016 at 7:44 amSuper cute! Thanks for linking up to Creativity Unleashed!! 🙂
Holly Gagnon says
April 7, 2016 at 12:12 pmThanks for stopping by Mindi! Holly 🙂