Holidays > Easter > Decorations for the home > How to Make a Paper Flowers
These flowers may look different, but the same technique is used to make them all. Simply fold and cut. Use them to make place cards, napkin rings, flower arrangements, or greeting cards.
Cut any color of paper 2 inches by 3 inches (5x7 cm.) Make them smaller for smaller flowers, and larger for larger flowers. Just keep the same dimensions. If you are making lots of flowers, cut the rectangles with a paper cutter, or cut 3 or 4 sheets of paper at once.
Fold the rectangle in half.
Keeping the folded edge at the bottom, Fold the bottom left corner to the middle of the right side.
Fold the bottom layer onto the top layer--it looks like a triangle.
Fold the left side to the back, which leaves the small triangle on the front. All the flowers are folded in this same way.
To make daisies, cut 2 humps like a skinny heart.
Trim just a tiny bit of the edges a bit if you want the petals to be separated closer to the center of the flower.
Make two of these, and stack both of them together to form the daisy. Cut a yellow circle and glue it to the middle of the flower.
Make leaves by cutting ovals out of green paper. Save time by folding the strip so you are cutting several at once.
Fold the leaves in half to form the veins of the leaves.
All the other flowers are folded in the same way. Only the cut is different.
Fold the rectangle in half.
Keeping the folded edge at the bottom, Fold the bottom left corner to the middle of the right side.
Fold the bottom layer onto the top layer--it looks like a small triangle.
Fold the left side to the back, which leaves the small triangle on the front.
Trim off just a tiny bit of the top point of the petals To make cherry blossoms.
Cut along the top edge of the triangle to make the petal shapes. Make the cut rounded, and lower on one side than the other. That is because the high side is the middle of each petal, and the short side becomes both sides of the petal.
