Origami Flowers how to Make an Origami Flower Artificial Flowers Soap Flowers
Flowers are perfect tokens on Mother’s Day. You can give them as gifts or use them as party decorations. Hand crafted artificial flowers are make even better presents because they last forever. Flowers crafted by your own hands are special because of the love and effort you put into its creation. Hand crafted artificial flowers are beautiful and easy to make.
Here are some craft ideas for making artificial flowers, great for Mother’s Day or any other special occasion needing flowers to celebrate.
Origami Paper Flowers
There are a ton of techniques out there for making paper flowers using origami paper folding. Most of the techniques are easy to understand with good instructions. You do not need fancy paper to make origami paper flowers. Simple coloured construction paper should do. Besides, your first few tries are going to be clumsy so try out your paper folding attempts on cheap paper first.
You can find really good instruction on how to make origami paper flowers onYouTube. It is easier to learn origami by watching video instructions. Just search “origami”. The Smithsonian maintains anStudio blogwhich is also a good place to start for origami instructions.
Flower Soap
If you can carve flower shapes from vegetables, wood, candle wax or ice, then you can certainly carve a flower from soap. Making a flower from soap is the ultimate in bathroom luxury. It is a functional gift that can be appreciated when received but will also never go to waste.
Carving soap is easy if you have some skills with a knife. But you can also melt and pour soap into a mould to shape it into a flower. Find a flower shape mould, you can get them at soap supply shops or candle making supplies shops. You can also find flower shape moulds at a bakers supply store, these moulds are used for gelatine but you can use them for soap too.
Melt ordinary soap in your microwave. You can use coloured soap or add food dye and fragrance if you want when the soap is melted. Pour your melted soap into your mould and let it cool. If the mould is made of metal, you might want to coat it first with petroleum jelly before pouring in the soap. That way, taking out the solid soap from the mould would be easier.
Some artificial flowers look more complicated than they actually are which keeps people trying to figure out how they were made. Artificial flowers can be made from cheap material like paper or expensive stuff like silk. Choose a medium you are familiar with and work with that.
