DIY Paper Flower Craft

Learning how to make paper flower crafts is a very delightful and relaxing hobby that will help make new friends and impress bystanders.

Last summer my sister and my brother in law along with their six old year niece relocated to my town. They stayed with my wife and I until they found a suitable home for themselves. In the meantime my little niece began withdrawing and displayed a melancholy demeanor. She was feeling lonely and like a stranger in a new environment and we recognized that she needed to make a few friends to become more comfortable and familiar with her new surroundings.

She took an interest in my paper flower crafts hobby and this cheered her up and made her forget about her problems to a degree. Since there were a couple of kids around her age on my street I decided to speak with their parents and invite them over to meet my niece.

I got them all to make paper flower craft projects and they quickly became friendly. My niece has now settled in to her new environment thanks to the camaraderie that our paper flower crafts introduced.

Here is our first project we all did together...

There are only a few supplies you might need to pick up at the hobby shop or craft store. First, is the tissue paper (crepe paper) and some colored sheets of cardboard paper. If you don't have glue and colored markers at home, then you will need to also purchase them. Also, two pairs of scissors (one large and one small pair) which you can find at any store. The last item is a good, creative imagination willing to open up and let ideas flow out of. Any image of paper flower crafts that you think up (within reason of course) can be created in a short period time with no previous skills needed.

Everything from single sheet cardboard cut-outs of flowers that is used for the trimming inside the house to 3-dimensional paper flower crafts that are placed anywhere and everywhere in viewing sight can be made with this hobby.

One of my favorite paper flower crafts is the pattern of the young child's hand.

1. Place your child's hand on a piece of colored cardboard paper and trace it.
2. Cut the image of the hand out from the paper.
3. Use a pencil to curl the fingers.
4. Use the palm of the hand and make a cone (fingers should point outward).
5. Glue the paper flower hand print around a straw, or something consisting of that shape.
6. Cut some shapes of leaves out of the green construction paper and then glue them to spots on the straw. Repeat this process as many times as desired to create a lovely bouquet of beautiful paper craft flowers.
There are no other hobbies that I know of that are so much fun and inexpensive to do that anybody can do at any age. Learning how to make paper flower crafts is very relaxing and develops habit-forming ways that people can use to express their artistic creativity to their friends, or just to meet new people. People will comment on certain crafts that you have created and this will give you a feeling of gratitude and accomplishment. Whether your looking for a way to meet your new neighbor, or looking for a new relaxing hobby, making paper flower crafts is an excellent way to do it.