Making Rose Petals for Kids' Crafts - DIY Chatroom - Home Improvement Site

DIY Chatroom - DIY Home Improvement Site

Carpentry | Construction | Electrical | Flooring | HVAC | Landscaping | Painting | Plumbing | Roofing

Making Rose Petals for Kids' Crafts

Now I'll show you how to make a rose out of Fun Foam. You're going to need a piece of red Fun Foam, or whatever color rose you want to make. You want to have a cutout, a bottom leaf section for the bottom of the flower, and a couple of leaves with a little bit longer stem end. You'll need a skewer and the floral tape. The rose flower has a more rounded petal, and we're going to cut four sort of round, stubby petals. So I'm going to cut two at a time. I cut two little squares like that, or fairly larger squares, and just make sort of a shape, almost an oval, not really a circle, a shape like this. Then cut up about 3/4 of an inch. Make two more of those. So we'll cut a strip like that, two squares and we'll put them together. Just cut pretty much the same size, maybe a little bit smaller for the second batch. But you can trim your petals as you're going. Cut an inch to 3/4 of an inch there. Then the last shape we'll be cutting is a very long skinny shape with two little points on the end, sort of like a big smile. We'll start by putting our bottom leaf circle there. Then take a petal and fold, take the two ends from where we split and fold that to give the petal some shape, and we're going to pierce through the center of the two flaps and put that on. The next petal will go opposite the first petal. Again, fold the flaps over and pierce through the center like this, and just arrange it opposite the first petal. Then we'll put on the next two petals in the same way. When you go to the next two petals, you might want to fold in even tighter, and that makes the petal close up even tighter so that the outside petals are a little wider, a little more open and this next petal is going to be tighter and more rounded in. Do the same with your fourth petal. Pull that, flap those over fairly tightly. The more you overlap them, the more rounded this petal will be. If you feel like you have too much here, you can even cut out a small triangle of material, and that way you can really pull that in nice and tight. Again, pierce through the center of both of those petals.

Making Rose Petals for Kids' Crafts video by Expert Village.com

More On This Topic

Related: petals, cut, tighter, shape, fold

Adding Petals to Flower Kids' Craft

Adding Petals to Flower Kids' Craft by Expert Village

Our next step for making our basic flower is we're going to put it together onto a skewer, so you need a nice bamboo skewer with a good point. Take one of these flower bases that we've made and just poke it through like this on the skewer. You can go... Read More »

Making a Rose for Kid's Crafts

Making a Rose for Kid's Crafts by Expert Village

Now we want to do the center of our rose. This is what we will use for the center of the rose. It is a long smiley shape and first fold down so that this pointed end is sticking down. Then we are just going to roll it up like this. You have a nice little... Read More »

Making Flower Petals for Kids' Crafts

Making Flower Petals for Kids' Crafts by Expert Village

Now I'm going to show you how to make a basic fun foam flower, where our basic flower is going to have five petals. And we're just going to cut a basic flower petal shape, which is just this shape here. Now you want to make five of these shapes, and you... Read More »

Making Sunflower Petals for Kids' Crafts

Making Sunflower Petals for Kids' Crafts by Expert Village

I'm going to show you how to make a sunflower out of fun foam. We want to make some long, sort of skinny petal shapes. About ten of these, like this. And the fun foam's very easy to cut. You can just go right down the strip. If you want, you can fold the... Read More »

Adding Sunflower Petals to Kids' Crafts

Adding Sunflower Petals to Kids' Crafts by Expert Village

Now let's add our petals to the skewer. You take the petal and take the two flaps from where you slit it, and fold it over like this. Then find the center where you can poke through both flaps, like that, and just slide the petal down. Continue with the... Read More »

Pluck Legal and Privacy

DIY Chatroom™ © 2003 - 2008 The Building Network LLC

Our Network: DIY Forum | Contractor Forum | Woodworking Forum | Painting Forum | Drywall Forum | Electrician Forum | Plumbing Forum
..