Mother's Day Vases with Tissue Paper Flowers

Vase directions:

• Drinkable yogurt container
• Tissue paper
• Elmer's glue (watered down)
• Paint brush
• Glitter

Doing a little at a time, paint glue on the yogurt container and stick on ripped up pieces of tissue paper to the container. Then paint on more glue over the tissue paper until you cover the entire vase. I sprinkled on some fine glitter while it was wet to give it some sparkle.

Tissue Paper Flowers:

• Tissue paper (different colors)
• Pipe cleaner (stem)

Cut the tissue paper about 4 inches wide and 12 inches long. Make sure that all the pieces are the same size. Stack all the paper up (4-6 pieces) and fold in an accordion pleat. Wrap one end of the pipe cleaner around the middle of the tissue paper. Gently separate each layer pulling upwards toward the middle of the flower.

Coffee Filter Flower
(middle picture)

• Coffee filters (2 per flower)
• Pipe cleaners (stem)
• Food coloring

Fold the coffee filter in half then half again, fold twice more so you have a narrow edge then cut a curve around the outside of the filter or you can make it pointy. This is the inside of your flower. On the other filter do the same thing just make it bigger just so the inside is smaller than the outside.

Put 2 to 3 tablespoons of water in a bowl with a few drops of food coloring.. Then scrunch up the coffee filter and put it in the colored water. You can make all different colors. Leave the filters in the colored water for a few minutes then take them out so they can dry completely. After they are dried put the smaller filter on top of the bigger filter then take the green pipe cleaner and poke it through the middle of the flower. Bend down the top of the pipe cleaner so it doesn't slide out of your flower. Then take a piece of scotch tape and wrap it around the bottom of the flower so it sticks to the pipe cleaner.

You can put a few small rocks in the bottom of the vase so it doesn't tip over.

By luv2craft from Normalville, Pennsylvania