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Many of the activities on these pages may require adult supervision.
Be sure to tell a grown-up about what you're planning and ask for permission before getting started.

Use brightly colored tissue paper and florist's supplies.

Tissue-paper flowers may look hard to make but they are really quite easy,
especially after you've had a little practice.

First, go to a florist's shop and buy some wire stems and florist's tape.

Next go to a discount store and buy bright colors of tissue paper, including green.

Now you're ready.

1. Cut eighteen 4-by-4 inch squares, varying the colors.
Trace circles around a cup or jar that roughly fits in your squares.

2. Cut out the circles, four or five at a time, until you have eighteen circles.

3. Take a piece of florist's stem wire and make a small loop at one end.
Thread the other end through the center of one circle.
Now thread it through the center of another circle.
Do six circles this way.

4. Push the six circles up to the loop and fold them loosely. Staple them closed.

5. Thread six more circles on the wire. Staple them on top of the others.

6. Thread the last six circles on the wire and staple them as you did the others.

7. Put the end of a piece of florist's tape over the last staple.
Hold it in place with your left hand as you wind the rest of the tape
around the bottom of the flower. Pull the tape so it stretches as you wind.
It is sort of sticky and stays in place. When the bottom of the flower looks good,
start winding downward over the wire.

8. Cut out some leaves from four squares of tissue paper.

9. Wrap the leaves onto the wire with the florist's tape.

10. Open the flower layer by layer and fluff it out so that it looks pretty.
Stick it in a green soda bottle. Tie on a gift tag with matching ribbon.
Vary the sizes and colors of your flowers,
and give someone a great big bouquet of them.

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