How to Make Paper Flowers: Easy Craft Ideas for Kids

Craft activities can keep children happily engaged for a long. By trying paper craft activities, children get to express their creativity and learn new skills. With just a few basic materials like coloured paper, scissors, and glue, children can design beautiful blooms in various shapes and sizes. These easy paper flowers for kids not only enhance their artistic abilities but also provide a great opportunity for hands-on learning. Along with making adorable craft items, they develop their motor, cognitive, and emotional skills. Since it involves cutting, folding, and joining sections of paper together to create something, it also enhances their imagination power. If your child shows an interest in paper crafts, here are some great ideas for paper flowers for preschoolers and kids to try out.

Paper Flower Crafts for Preschooler

Using simple materials, little hands can create beautiful flowers in various shapes and colours. Here are a few easy and enjoyable paper flower crafts perfect for young children to try!

1. Paper Flower Vase

It’s easy to make a pretty vase with these simple paper flowers.

What You’ll Need

• Coloured craft papers
• Drinking straws
• Scissors
• Glue

How to Make

• Take coloured craft papers and make different types of flowers using stencils or punches.
• Use the drinking straws as stalks and glue each flower to it.
• Arrange different flowers based on their size and place into a pretty vase.

2. Paper Plate Flowers

Leftover paper plates from birthday parties make for great craft material.

What You’ll Need

• Paper plates made out of cardboard
• Watercolours
• A pair of scissors
• Glue
• Craft sticks

How to Make

• Draw the outline of your favourite flower on a paper plate.
• Cut along the outline and remove the rest of the paper to get the flower.
• Glue a craft stick at the back of the centre of the flower to make a stalk.
• Cut out leaves from the excess paper and glue them to the craft stick below the flower.
• Paint the petals with a colour of your choice. Colour the glue stick in brown and the leaves in green.

3. Pop Out Paper Cup Flowers

Pop Out flowers are made with paper cups and can be made by anyone.

What You’ll Need

• Paper cups
• Crayons, watercolours, etc
• A pair of scissors
• Craft glue

How to Make

• Trim the rim of the paper cups to remove the drinking edge.
• Make multiple cuts halfway down into the cup using the scissors.
• Spread out the cut sections to form the petals.
• Paint the petals with different colours on the inside.

4. Craft Paper Daisies

If you’re looking for simple paper flower crafts for your kids, try craft paper daisies. Daisies can be made within no time.

What You’ll Need

• Craft paper (white or any other colour)
• Green pipe cleaner (optional)
• Craft Glue
• A pair of scissors

How to Make

• Draw daisies on craft paper of different colours.
• Use a stencil for perfect shapes and uniformity.
• Cut along the lines with a scissor.
• Cut out smaller circles the size of buttons.
• Place the circles on the centre of the daisies and glue them.

5. Cupcake Wrap Flowers

To make these flowers, all your kids will need is cupcake wrappers, a pair of scissors, and skill of course.

What You’ll Need

• Multicoloured cupcake wrappers
• Craft glue
• Green craft paper
• Coat buttons
• A pair of scissors
• A black sketch pen

How to Make

• Flatten out the cupcake wrappers and sketch the outline of any petal design of your liking.
• Take some coat buttons and glue them on to the centre of the wrappers.
• Stick a green strip (cut from green craft paper) to form the stalk of the flowers.

6. Handprint Lilies

Your kids will have fun while making handprint lilies.

What You’ll Need

• Craft paper sheets of different colours
• Drinking straws
• Tissue paper core
• A pair of scissors
• Pencils
• Craft glue

How to Make

• Trace your child’s hand over different coloured craft paper.
• Cut out the hand impression with a scissor and roll it vertically.
• Curl down the fingers of each roll to make the flower bloom.
• Glue one end of the cut out to the drinking straw.
• Your handprint lily is ready.

7. Heart Petal Flowers

Heart petal flowers look beautiful and can be made within no time. Here’s how your kids can make them!

What You’ll Need

• A coloured craft sheet
• A craft punch of heart shape
• Glue
• A pair of scissors

How to Make

• Use the heart craft punch to punch out petals from the coloured paper.
• Gently fold each heart vertically.
• Glue 5 or 6 petals together at their base to make a flower.
• Glue a bead at the centre.

8. Tissue Paper Pom-Pom Flowers

Tissue paper can be used to make fluffy pom-pom flowers.

What You’ll Need

• Tissue papers
• Pipe cleaner, floral wire
• A pair of scissors
• Drinking straws
• Craft glue

How to Make

• Take 6 to 7 tissue papers of the same dimensions and stack them on top of each other.
• Make a 2 cm wide fold in the bunch and fold them in the accordion style, trim off excess paper and the edges with the scissors.
• Fold at the centre and use floral wire to wrap around the fold.
• Spread out each layer gently to form petals.
• Stick a straw to the bottom end to complete the flower.

9. Cupcake Liner Flowers

These simple flowers are one of the prettiest of the lot and your child will have fun making these.

What You’ll Need

• Cupcake liners of different colours
• Pencils
• A pair of scissors

How to Make

• Fold the circular cupcake liner to make a semi-circle and fold it again to make a sector, more folds give you more petals.
• Use the pencil to draw an arc along the base of the sector.
• Cut along the arc and unfold the paper to reveal the flower.

10. Disc Flowers

Simple paper disks can be used to make gorgeous looking flowers.

What You’ll Need

• Craft papers of different colours
• Circle punch
• Craft glue
• Beads

How to Make

• Punch out a few circles from craft papers of all colours.
• Use one of the discs as the base and carefully arrange 5 discs around the base such that they overlap each other a little bit giving a symmetrical flower pattern.
• Glue these discs together and additionally glue a bead at the centre to give the flower a complete look.

11. Origami Tulips

A fun way to introduce preschoolers to origami with simple tulips.

What You’ll Need

• Coloured origami paper
• Green straws
• Glue or tape
• Markers or stickers (for decoration)

How to Make

• Fold the square in half diagonally to form a triangle.
• Keep the folded side at the bottom and bring the two top corners down slightly, folding them towards the middle to create the tulip’s petal shape.
• Secure the folds by pressing them firmly.
• Take a green straw and attach it to the back of the tulip using glue or tape.
• If you don’t have straws, you can roll a small piece of green paper into a thin tube as a substitute.
• Use markers or stickers to add designs on the petals.
• You can also cut out small paper leaves and attach them to the stem for extra detail.

12. Paper Chain Flowers

Create a fun and colourful flower using simple paper loops!

What You’ll Need

• Coloured paper
• Scissors
• Glue or tape
• Green paper or straws (for the stem)

How to Make

• Cut strips of coloured paper, about 1 inch wide and 4-5 inches long.
• Form each strip into a loop and secure the ends with glue or tape.
• Arrange 5-6 loops in a circular shape to create flower petals.
• Cut out a small circle from yellow paper and glue it in the centre.
• Attach a green paper strip or straw as the stem.

Paper Flower Craft Ideas for Children

Here is a list of paper flower craft designs that your child can try:

1. Rainbow Paper Flowers

This simple flower design makes for a great 3D artwork for your child’s craft notebook.

What You’ll Need

• Craft paper of 6 different colours
• Craft glue
• A pair of scissors
• Sketch pens
• A plain white sheet

How to Make

• Draw a circle of 4 cm diameter on each craft paper.
• Cut out the circular discs using a pair of scissors.
• Take a circle and fold it into half to get a semi-circle – it will form the petal of the flower.
• Then fold the remaining circular discs into halves to get semi-circles.
• Draw a tiny circle with a sketch pen in the middle of the plain sheet – it will act as the centre of the flower.
• Take the six petals of different colours and arrange them in a circle with one tip of each petal converging on the centre of the flower.
• Glue them in place and use sketch pens to draw the stem and leaves to complete the flower.

2. Scribble Art Flowers

Here’s how your child can make scribble art flowers.

What You’ll Need

• 2 drawing sheet
• Colour pencils, crayons, watercolours, etc
• Paint brushes and water
• Scissors and beads

How to Make

• Allow the children to scribble on the drawing sheet using colour pencils or watercolours.
• Let it dry then cut them into petal-shaped pieces.
• Take a plain drawing sheet and cut out a small circle from it and arrange the petals to form a flower around it.
• Glue them together to make scribble art flowers.

3. Paper Rose

The idea for this craft draws inspiration from spiral pencil shavings that curl up into a cone.

What You’ll Need

• A red sheet
• Green straws or pipe cleaners
• A pair of scissors
• Pencils

How to Make

• Using the pencil draw an evenly spaced expanding spiral on the red craft paper that is about three to four inches in size.
• Cut along the spiral outline with a scissor such that it becomes a spring-like spiral.
• Roll from the outside edge all the way to the centre.
• Poke a hole in the centre to fit the pipe cleaner or the straw.
• Push the pipe cleaner and let the spiral uncurl a bit into the shape of a rose.

4. Ribbon Sun Flower

This is a simple way to make beautiful sunflowers.

What You’ll Need

• Craft papers of different colours
• A pencil
• A ruler
• A pair of scissors
• Craft glue
• Green drinking straws

How to Make

• Cut a circle which is 3-5 cm in diameter to form the head of the flower.
• Cut 1 cm wide strips of different lengths to make the petals of the sunflower. Use a yellow sheet to make petals.
• Glue the ends of each strip together to form a loop.
• Arrange the flat, glued-end of the petals around the head symmetrically and glue them together.
• Colour the head of the flower in brown.
• Glue the drinking straw to the centre of the head to form a stalk.

5. Paper Rosettes

These are easy to make and are excellent decorative crafts.

What You’ll Need

• Colour paper
• Glue
• A thread

How to Make

• You will need 3 sheets of paper to make one rosette depending on its length.
• Cut the 3 sheets into squares and start making folds in them from one end to the other.
• Make a 1-cm wide fold on one end, and make accordion folds along the whole length.
• Stick the sheets together end to end to form one long sheet with folds.
• Collect the folds together tightly and pinch them at the centre. Tie it with a thread to hold it together.
• Spread the ends out and stick them together on each side to form a circular rosette.

6. Felt Poppies

Make beautiful red poppies with felt. These look pretty and will add style to your house.

What You’ll Need

• Sheets of red and black felt
• Bendable drinking straws
• A pair of scissors
• Buttons
• Sketch pens
• Hot melt glue
• 8 petal flower templates
• Patterned craft paper

How to Make

• Using the template draw and cut out some flowers from the red felt.
• To make them more realistic, completely cut out one petal from the tip to the centre of the flower.
• Cut small circles out of the black felt to form the centre of the red poppies. With scissors cut random zigzags around its circumference for a realistic look.
• Glue a button to the centre of the black felt and finally glue it to the centre of the poppy.
• Glue the bendable end of the drinking straw at the back of the poppy flowers.

7. Pinwheel Flowers

These are colourful and fun to make.

What You’ll Need

• Craft papers of different colours
• Pencils and ruler
• Scissors
• Straw
• Push pins
• Paper fastener

How to Make

• Take two square sheets and draw identical squares on it. Cut the two squares and draw two diagonals on each square using a pencil and ruler.
• Cut halfway to the centre along the diagonals from the edges and stop.
• Gather the four corners or tips of the cut square vertices to the centre and glue them.
• Insert a push pin at the centre.
• Push the pin on a pencil’s eraser but don’t push it too tight as it might prevent it from spinning.
• Blow the edges of the pinwheel to make it spin.

8. Full Bloom Rose

The petals of these roses are uneven to give it a more natural look.

What You’ll Need

• Coloured craft papers
• Pencil
• Scissors
• Craft glue
• Beaded pins

How to Make

• Start by drawing spirals on the craft sheets, however, the spirals shouldn’t be spaced evenly.
• Cut along the spiral trace with a scissor until you end up with a craft paper coil.
• Roll the coil from the outside in and pierce the centre of the coil with a beaded pin.

9. Balloon Flowers

These flowers are easy to make and look pretty.

What You’ll Need

• Green, yellow, and pink craft papers
• Craft glue
• Scissors/punch
• Pencil

How to Make

• Start by drawing balloons on the pink craft paper and cut them out with a scissor. Alternatively, you can use a punch to get uniform-sized balloons.
• Wrinkle the edges of the balloon shapes with the blunt edge of the scissors to make them look more like petals.
• Take a yellow craft paper and cut out a circle to make the flower head.
• Glue the tapered end of the balloon petals symmetrically around the circle.
• Make leaves and stalk out of the green craft to complete the flower.

10. Tissue Paper Flowers

Your kids might take some time to make tissue paper flowers, but rest assured because the outcome will be wonderful.

What You’ll Need

• White cardboard
• Green and pink tissue papers or crepe paper
• Craft glue
• A pair of scissors

How to Make

• Draw the pattern of a flower complete with a stem and leaves on the cardboard sheet and cut it out.
• Cut the pink and green crepe tissues into a number of little pieces and crinkle them.
• Smear craft glue all over the cardboard flower.
• Stick the crinkled tissues to cover the whole surface.

11. Paper Roll Flowers

Turn a simple toilet paper roll into a beautiful flower with this fun and creative craft!

What You’ll Need

• Empty toilet paper or paper towel rolls
• Scissors
• Paint and paintbrushes
• Glue

How to Make

• Take an empty toilet paper roll and flatten it slightly.
• Using a pencil or marker, draw a flower shape (such as a daisy or tulip) on the roll.
• Carefully cut out the flower shape, making sure to keep it connected to the base of the roll.
• Paint the flower in bright colours and let it dry completely.

12. Egg Carton Flowers

A fun and eco-friendly craft using recycled egg cartons!

What You’ll Need

• Empty egg carton
• Scissors
• Paint and paintbrushes
• Glue
• Green paper or straws (for the stem)
• Buttons, pom-poms, or beads

How to Make

• Cut out individual cups from an egg carton, these will form the flower petals.
• Trim the edges into rounded or pointed petal shapes as desired.
• Paint the egg carton cups in bright colours and let them dry completely.
• Glue a button, pom-pom, or bead in the centre of each flower for decoration.
• Attach a green paper strip or straw to the back as the stem.

FAQs

1. How can I make my paper flowers look more realistic?

To make paper flowers look more realistic, use layered petals, curled edges, and textured materials like crepe paper. Adding shading with coloured pencils or pastels and using green paper for leaves and stems can also enhance the natural look.

2. Are paper flower crafts good for kid’s learning and development?

Yes! Making paper flowers helps improve fine motor skills, hand-eye coordination, creativity, and colour recognition. It also encourages patience, focus, and problem-solving as children follow the steps and assemble their flowers.

3. How can preschoolers make tissue paper flowers easily?

Tissue paper flowers for preschoolers are a perfect craft because they are soft, colourful, and easy to make. Simply stack 3-5 layers of tissue paper, fold them like an accordion, and secure the centre with a straw. Gently pull apart each layer to fluff up the petals.

Some of the most beautiful paper flower craft for kids can be made out of the simplest materials available. With creativity and skill, you can make art activities fun for the kids and help them improve their imaginative skills.

Also Read:

Jellyfish Crafts for Kids
Origami Crafts for Children
Plastic Bottle Crafts for Children
Greeting Card Ideas for Kids
Waste Material Craft Ideas for Children