Coffee Filter Flowers
Age: 7 and up
This project is rated EASY to do.
What You Need
- Basket coffee filters
- Water color Wa´ter col`or
1. (Paint.) A color ground with water and gum or other glutinous medium; a color the vehicle of which is water; - so called in distinction from oil color.
2. A picture painted with such colors. paints - Water
- Paintbrush (graphics, tool) Paintbrush - A Microsoft Windows tool for creating bitmap graphics.
- Scissors scissors
Cutting instrument or tool consisting of a pair of opposed metal blades that meet and cut when the handles at their ends are brought together. Modern scissors are of two types: the more usual pivoted blades have a rivet or screw connection between the cutting ends - Green chenille che·nille
n.
1. A soft tufted cord of silk, cotton, or worsted used in embroidery or for fringing.
2. Fabric made of this cord, commonly used for bedspreads or rugs. stems (1 per flower)
How To Make It
- Flatten flatten - To remove structural information, especially to filter something with an implicit tree structure into a simple sequence of leaves; also tends to imply mapping to flat ASCII. "This code flattens an expression with parentheses into an equivalent canonical form." coffee filter onto work surface (place some scratch paper Noun 1. scratch paper - pad for preliminary or hasty writing or notes or sketches etc; "scribbling block" is a British term
scratch pad, scribbling block
notepad - a pad of paper for keeping notes or newspaper underneath).
- Paint coffee filter with watercolor paint. Thin the paint more in some areas to make the color lighter. Use whatever combination of colors you like, we used two colors per flower. Let the filters dry completely.
- Cut about 2” off the end of a chenille stem and set both pieces aside.
- There are several different ways to make your flowers. You can fringe the ends in thin strips (leaving the center whole) to make the flower that resembles a pom pom. You can cut thicker strips, about 1” wide each, to make the petals of the flower or don’t cut the filter at all to make the rose.
- Insert the large piece of green chenille into the center of the coffee filter about 1.5” in. Hold onto the small end and turn the flower upside down so that the long end of the chenille is sticking up.
- Grasp the center of the coffee filter and gather it around the small end of the chenille.
- Twist the smaller piece of chenille around the gathered filter to secure the flower in place. Turn the flower back over and fluff the petals as needed as needed prn. See prn order. .
Helpful Hints
- No two coffee filters will look the same. Thin watercolors to make lighter shades and use thicker amounts for bolder shades.
- You can speed dry the coffee filters by laying them in a sunny window or blow drying them.
- Make your own designs by experimenting with different cuts and shapes.
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