Since we had a pipe cleaner project for a little older group of kids on Monday, I thought it would be nice to do an easier pipe cleaner project for younger kids today. They might need some help holding the pieces together until the final wrap, but after that they can create to their heart’s content!
You will need a total of 7 pipe cleaners…5 for the flower petals, one for the stem and one for the center of the flower. I chose to use red for the petals, green for the stem and yellow for the center. Feel free to use whatever colors your child picks out! 🙂
The stem piece will be in the center of the petals.
For each petal, fold the pipe cleaner in half loosely as shown, making the 2 ends meet.
Place the ends in line with one end the end of the stem.
Continue bending and adding petals, placing them around the stem.
When you have all 5 petals lined up, it should look something like this:
Now take your pipe cleaner for the center and begin wrapping it around the bunch of ends.
Wrap it around and around the group of ends and try to cover up the ends so you don’t see any other colors.
Now comes the fun part! Bend each flower petal up and then design your flower! 🙂
The petals can be shaped in many ways. Here are a few ideas to get you started:
Nicely rounded and oval shaped.
Put a little bend in the end of each petal.
Rounded petals that overlap each other. This one makes me think of a pansy!
Pointed skinny petals.
Petals bent in the middle to look like hearts.
For this flower, I bent the petals in half and looped the end over the yellow center of the flower. Then twisted the 2 pieces so they looked like smaller petals.
I’m sure you can come up with even more ideas! This is a simple but fun project for people of all ages. For older kids or adults, you could cut the pipe cleaners in half and make smaller flowers. I hope you’ll give this project a try! Maybe if we concentrate on making pipe cleaner flowers we can forgot how cold it is outside! 😉 Stay warm!
The Kids Niche 