Materials:
- 2" Styrofoam ball
- 2 1/2" tall peat pot
- Green pompoms*
- Stones, marbles or other item for
weight
- Pipe-cleaners; 3 green and one each
of 3 other colors
- 3 Pony beads; 9 x 6mm
- White glue
- Optional: Paints, markers, crayons
or glitter pens to decorate the pot
*Sparkly ones look exceptionally nice.
If you use a 1 1/2" or larger pompom you will only need one but if you
use smaller pompoms you may need more than one to get enough fuzz to
cover the Styrofoam ball - see step #14. |
Optional: Before getting started with the rest of the directions,
paint the peat pot and let it dry and/or decorate it with markers,
glitter glue or crayons.
- Place a layer of stones, or other item in the bottom of the peat
pot for weight.
- Glue a 2" Styrofoam ball into the peat pot on top of the
weights. Set aside while we make the flowers.
- Each flower uses one colored pipe-cleaner, one green pipe-cleaner
and one pony bead. Start by sliding the pony bead onto the
center of one of the colored pipe-cleaners.
- Keeping the bead in the center of
the pipe-cleaner and holding the pipe-cleaner horizontally, bring the
end of the pipecleaner from the right side of the bead around to the
left side of the bead and insert it from left to right through
the center of the bead forming a loop. Pull gently until the
loop measures approximately 1" across.
- Take the pipe-cleaner that is on the
left and bring it around and insert the end through the center of
the bead from right to left forming a 1" loop. You now have a
bead in the center with two loops and two straight pieces coming out
of it.
- Take the straight piece on the
right side and make a 1" loop and insert the end back into the right
side of the bead. Bend any remaining pipe-cleaner from this
piece up and over the bead.
- Take the straight piece on the left
side and make a 1" loop and insert the end back into the left side
of the bead. Bend any remaining pipe-cleaner from this piece up
and over the bead.
- Cut a green pipe-cleaner in half
using wire cutters. Hint: Cutting pipe-cleaners with scissors will
damage the scissors.
- Take one half of green pipe-cleaner
and thread the end through the pony bead on the backside of the
flower. Fold the end of the pipe-cleaner over the bead.
This forms the flower's stem
- Take the other piece of green
pipe-cleaner and twist the center of it around the flower's stem
about one third to half way up the stem. Take the straight piece on
the right side and make a 1" loop and insert the end back into the
right side of the bead. Bend any remaining pipe-cleaner from this
piece up and over the bead.
- Take each of the straight ends of
this piece of pipe-cleaner, one at a time, and bring the end into the
stem forming a loop. Wrap the end around the stem to keep in
place.
- Repeat steps 3 - 11 two more times
for a total of three flowers.
- Stick each flower into the
Styrofoam in the pot.
- Cut across the center of one of the
green pompoms. This should cause it to fall apart leaving you
with a green fuzzy substance. Using white glue, glue this to
the surface of the Styrofoam ball (the portion that is visible).
| The
diagrams here will show you how to form a flower from a
pipe-cleaner as explained in steps 3-7 above. |
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