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Bumble Bee Clay Pot with Coffee Filter Flowers


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Here I painted a pot black and yellow and filled it with flowers using coffee filters.

Approximate Time: 2 hours

Supplies:

  • clay pot
  • yellow, green, and black acyrilic paint
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  • coffee filters
  • food coloring: red, blue, yellow
  • paint brush
  • pictures of bumble bees
  • glue
  • floral organizer
  • wire for stems or stems from old flowers
  • floral tape

Instructions:

    Clay Pot

    1. Paint your clay pot yellow. Terra Cotta Pot painted yellow
       

    2. When dry paint black stripes onto your pot. This makes the pot have a cute bubble bee look.

    Coffee Filter Flower

    1. Fold seven coffee filters in half, then fold in half again. Folded coffee filter
       

    2. Fold two coffee filters into thirds on each side.

    3. Fold the other 5 in half again.

    4. Take your 5 filters and cut into a petal shape. It will look like a heart shape cut along the fold you will then have two hearts each 2 layers.
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    5. Then cut the other two folded into thirds into a petal shape. These will look like three petals when opened.

    6. Fold the bottom 3 quarters of an inch, and then fold again, do both. Folded Coffee Filter
       
      Folded Coffee Filter
       

    7. Take your wire and bend into a hook at the top,and put it through the one petal center you folded into thirds and fold your hook tightly closed. Making a Coffee Filter Flower
       

    8. Place glue on your hook to hold it onto your flower.

    9. Then fold flower at one side to middle and fold the other side to the middle glue as they meet in the center.
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    10. Take the other filter you folded into thirds and put a pleat in the middle apply glue at bottom of your flower.

    11. Keep all flowers even as you wrap around your wire glue on the next one. Fold 4 of your coffee filters at the bottom about 1 inch. It should look like a triangle at the bottom.

    12. Put glue across the bottom and roll around your flower not to tightly, and pinch at the bottom to hold onto your stem.

    13. Roll next three around your flower the same way. Fold rest of your petals up 1/2 inch. They should look like a triangle at the bottom, glue it onto your flower do the rest the same way. Then your flower is done.

    Flower Leaves

  1. Wrap your wire with floral tape.

  2. Paint a coffee filter green, let dry.

  3. Then cut out an oval shape for leaves.

  4. Fold in half and in half again
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  5. Cut the top of each side into a leaf shape

  6. Cut the tip off the bottom to open the center. Leaves for a coffee filter flower
     

  7. Then unfold and slide up the bottom of your stem and glue to flower. Making a Coffee Filter Flower
     

Coloring the Flowers

  1. Mix blue food coloring into a cup and open the middle of your flower and paint food coloring in there and into the rest of your layers you only need a little bit it will spread.

  2. Do the same with red, and yellow food coloring.

Put your floral organizer in your pot and arrange your flowers. To cover your organizer I painted coffee filters with red food coloring to put in the pot around the flowers. The last step is to glue bees around your pot.

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By coville123 from Brockville, Ontario Coffee Filter Flowers

 

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March 16, 20120 found this helpful

Here are some of mine. When we find a pencil that won't sharpen right, we use them for these little flowers!

Yours are so beautiful! They look like roses...mine look like carnations!

 
 

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March 17, 20120 found this helpful

Love the carnations I will have to try one!

 

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