Currently, there are a large number of different master classes that allow you to create beautiful paper crafts with your own hands. Such products can act as interesting decorations for the interior, a small gift or a toy for the child. Today we’ll talk about how to make flowers from newspaper tubes.
What is required?
To make a flower arrangement of such paper with your own hands, you will need certain materials.
- Paper. Newspaper paper is easily twisted into small tubes, so this option is the most optimal.
- Instruments. These include scissors, metal knitting needles or a hook (they are needed to properly roll paper).
- Wire. Better to pick out thin samples.
- Glue. You can immediately prepare both glue stick and PVA.
- Paints. For painting such products, it is better to choose acrylic compositions.
Weaving Methods
Today, on the Internet, you can find a large number of different schemes that show the step-by-step steps for making flowers from a newspaper. Consider a simple option that can be suitable even for beginners.
Take one tube and fold it in half. You must first insert the wire into the paper. Then the strip is opened a little and fixed in such a way that a figure resembling a rhombus is obtained.
After this, the resulting petal is fixed near the apex and proceed to weaving, having twisted strips in a vertical and horizontal position. In the process, the tubes need to be increased. In the end, all this is fixed with PVA glue. The rest of the tube is cut a little.
In total, you need to make 5 petals of the same size, you also need to prepare 2 leaflets, they are weaved in the same way, but their size should be slightly smaller.
Later make the core of the flower. To do this, take newsprint and soak it in water for the night. During this time, the pulp will completely soften. PVA glue is added to the finished mixture.
A ball is formed from the resulting pulp and left to dry overnight. At the final stage, all the individual parts are assembled, do it with hot glue. For convenience, you can use a special small thermal gun with an adhesive mixture.
All petals are painted. The color for this is selected depending on personal preference. To the tails of the petals add still twisted strips and leaves. They can also be woven, alternating vertical and horizontal rows. Such details are painted in bright green paint. At the end, the finished composition can be inserted into a vase.
From the same petals, you can create another beautiful composition. Wherein each finished woven petal is neatly bent so that the product is in the form of an arc.
To make the middle of the flower, you can take several newspaper tubes (from 3 to 5). The end of each of them is twisted in the form of a small spiral. After that, the petals are glued together with a heat gun, the finished center is inserted into the central part. The result is a composition similar to lilies.
From newspaper tubes you can also make crafts in the form of sakura, roses, chamomiles.
See how to weave wildflowers from newspaper tubes.
Beautiful examples
For clarity, you can consider ready-made crafts.
To decorate the interior, you can make a small tall vase with several lilies. To make such a craft, the petals are twisted a little so that they become slightly curved. They are painted in yellow or orange.
Petals are attached to each other, several thin tubes are placed in the central part, cut or twisted to the end. To make the composition more original, you can weave a vase from the same paper and cover it with brown acrylic paint.
Also suitable for the interior woven sunflower crafts. To make such a product, first weave several large petals, pointed to the end. They are immediately covered with yellow paint. Several leaves are also formed and a green acrylic composition is applied to them.
All petals are connected together by glue. In the middle of the finished craft coffee beans are poured, they will act as the core of the flower. You can additionally make a small braided process with several small leaves and attach it to the side. You can place the crafts in a shallow wicker basket.
