Craft Monday: Tissue paper Flower Centerpieces & Cards

We decided to make some tissue paper flowers as centerpieces for Alayna's birthday party. I used to make these in Spanish classes for Cinco de Mayo and El Dia de los Muertos. They're super easy and fun to make and all you need is some tissue paper and green pipe cleaners. For detailed instructions, you can check out this website. Here are the girls helping out and showing off our finished flowers.



Aren't they so sweet?



Here are our completed centerpieces!




After Alayna's party we, of course, had a lot of extra tissue paper from gift bags, so I thought it would be nice to use some of that paper to make our thank you cards. See our stack of paper:



I folded and stacked up one piece of each color, then had Alayna trace around a candle and some glasses to make circles of three different sizes. (Ha ha! You can see Ranch dressing in the background because we had a veggie snack right before starting. No Ranch is required for this project!)



We took a pencil, put the eraser in the center of each circle, and twisted. Then we glued a large, medium, and small flower on top of each other onto folded cardstock.



Alayna then used a green marker to draw a stem and we cut fringe in green tissue paper for grass and glued it on. Here's Alayna (excuse me, I mean Snow White!) with two of the finished cards. Thanks again to everyone who came to our party and to all of our family who sent such great presents!