Our Sweet Adelines Chorus is doing a Fashion Show saluting Veterans. We need to make Poppy Pins that look "classy". Does anyone have any ideas for fairly inexpensive, but nice ones? Thank you.
For super-nice poppies you can start with silk flowers. I recently bought of poppies a bunch at Dollar Tree (they had dark red, orange & magenta). You could also buy them on sale or with a half-off coupon at any craft store. Here's the supplies you'll need:
Supplies: - silk poppies (BTW: they are really made from polyester) - 22 or 20 gauge wire - dark green floral tape - a candle - wire cutters or old scissors
1) Remove the poppy off of the stem. 2) Light the candle & stick the end of the wire into the flame until it's hot. 3) Quickly push the wire through the nib of plastic at the bottom of the flower & push the wire through & fold in half then clip wire. 4) Wrap stem with floral tape, starting at the flower & working your way down, cover the wire stem with floral tape by spinning the stem around & at the same time pulling on the floral tape to release it's adhesive & pressing down with your fingers 5) if you like you can wrap the new wire stem around a pencil or pen to make it into a spiral. 6) add a corsage pin to attach. Poke it through the floral tape at the base of the flower.
A second idea; Do steps 1 through 3 then wrap wire to a pin back. Pin backs are sold at craft stores in bags with 30, 50 or 100. They are made for gluing fancy brooches to.
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