Spring is the perfect time to get crafty with the kids! After making our rainbow colored coffee filters and turning them into a rainbow flower bouquet, we just couldn’t stop there. We took those same colorful filters and started folding and shaping them into all kinds of beautiful flowers perfect for brightening up any room!
There are so many ways you can make these. My girls were having a blast shaping their coffee filters into all sorts of flowers.
Supplies for Colored Coffee Filter Flowers
- Coffee filters (colored with markers — check out our rainbow colored coffee filter tutorial!)
- Straws
- Washi tape
- Scissors
How to Shape Coffee Filter Flowers
Once your coffee filters are all dyed and dried, it’s time to start shaping them into flowers. This is where the fun really begins — there’s no one right way to do it, and that’s exactly the point. Let the kids experiment and see what they come up with!
Simple Folded Flower
Fold the coffee filter in half, then in half again. Gather the pointed end together and twist it to form a stem base. Fluff out the top to open up the petals. Easy and so pretty!
Crinkled Flower
Lay the coffee filter flat, then scrunch it up from the center. Pinch and twist the bottom together tightly. Give the top a little shake to loosen the petals and you’ve got a full, fluffy bloom.
Ruffled Rose
Fold your coffee filter in half and then fold it in half again. Starting at the outer edge, cut a gentle curved spiral all the way in toward the center, leaving a small circle uncut in the middle. Gently roll the spiral from the outside in, using that center circle as the base. It curls right into a beautiful rose!
How to Assemble Your Coffee Filter Flowers
Once your flowers are shaped, it’s time to add the stems and put your bouquet together.
- Pinch the bottom of your flower tightly and push it onto the end of a straw.
- Wrap washi tape around the base of the flower and down the straw to secure it in place. This is a great chance to add even more color!
- Keep wrapping all the way down if you’d like, a fully taped straw looks so cheerful in a bouquet.
- Repeat with all your flowers and gather them together for a beautiful springtime display.
Set them out in a vase or a glass and you’ve got an indoor flower arrangement that lasts forever. My girls spent a whole afternoon making one flower after another, each one a little different. The best kind of craft, easy to start, hard to stop!
