Tissue paper flowers

These are really easy to make and all you need is a few bits of tissue paper and some pipe cleaners!

 POPPY
















Cut out 4 circles - they don't need to be perfect

Lay them on top of each other

Push a pipe cleaner through the middle of the circles












Twist the end of the pipe cleaner into a ball to secure it

Scrunch up the tissue paper

Open them out again to finish the flower











To make the leaves, cut out 2 rectangles of green tissue paper

Fold them in half 

Cut a leaf shape, leaving the folded edge uncut so they remain attached

Open the leaves out

Lay them in position where you would like them on the stem

And twist the pipe cleaner around them to secure them.

TULIP

To make a different type of flower, again start with 4 circles of tissue paper.

Fold the circle in half, then in half again, then again, and again!!!

Cut the wide edge in a semi-circle

open the flowers out and push the pipe cleaner through as before and make a ball to secure it

twist the pipe cleaner around the bottom of the petals 

separate the petals out and add leaves as before!

Fish Mobile

To make a fish mobile you will need:
- 1 piece of card for each mobile
- cotton/thread
- sticky tape
- hole punch
- stuff to decorate it with - pens/pencils, stickers, tissue paper and glue

Download and print off the template below onto the A4 card and cut out the circle and fish. Use a hole punch or sharp scissors to make 4 holes around the circle and at the top of each fish and let the kids have some fun decorating them.

When they've finished, take a length of thread and tape it to the underneath of the circle so that it will come out of the middle when you turn it into a cone.Overlap the 2 cut edges and tape into place to make a flat cone that you can hang the fish from.

Then tie thread to each fish and hang it from the cone...TA-DA! You have a beautiful fish mobile!!!