Kids Craft: Simple Watercolor Tissue Flowers

Iplan to do this project with my kids VERY soon. We made some flowers out of colored tissue paper for Easter and they turned out wonderfully, but I like the idea of using watercolor paints because I LOVE the effect that this gives. This is a very simple project and you will need very few supplies for it!! These would be pretty as an arrangement or if you poked them into a styrofoam wreath base to make a beautiful summer arrangement.


Materials:

facial tissues (you can use different colors if you want)
white or clear thread
scissors
watercolor paint
water
paintbrush
optional pipe cleaners of floral wire


Instructions:

1. Take one tissue and fold it back and forth (like an accordion). While it is still folded closed, accordion style, fold the tissue in half lengthwise once.

2. Take the end of the tissue that has the fold, and tie a piece of thread around the middle of the accordion fold.

3. Separate the layers of the tissue and fluff it into a flower

4. Use watercolor paint that is very diluted and use a paintbrush to lightly touch the edges of the "petals" and let the colored water wick itself up into the flower.

5. If you would like to add them to an arrangement of make stems, use floral wire or pipe cleaners and secure them over where you tied your thread.