Paper flowers

I saw a video featuring Livia Cetti showing how to dip tissue paper in bleach to create subtly coloured paper flowers.  I ran out, bought the book, bought tissue paper and started dipping.  Imagine how disappointed I was when it turned out that my tissue paper was colour-fast and wouldn't change colour.

Still, I had all that paper, so I made some flowers.

More paper flowers

The thing with my son is that once he starts making something he won't stop. After the button flowers, he wanted more flowers. So I broke out my paper craft books.

We upgraded from pipe cleaners and scrap paper to proper floral wire and crepe paper. He cut and glued, and I assembled. We did the roses sort of like they did here, but much lazier, just drawing everything free hand.

The iris is from one of my old craft magazines. Now he's insisting he needs more than one purple flower.

Paper hearts

I did some crafting with my 4 1/2 year old today. We made the paper flowers from here. My little guy chose the paper. I drew the hearts. He cut them out, and we assembled them together.

The stems are pipe cleaners. I haven't played with pipe cleaners in years, forgot how much fun they are. Have to get more pipe cleaners...