Spring has definitely sprung here and I’m loving seeing the flowers beginning to pop up the garden. Daffodils are one of my favourites for a pop of colour in early spring.

A great spring craft to do is tissue paper flowers. I love making them really big and they’re a fun craft to do with kids if you have them as well.

What you need:

• Tissue paper
• Pipe cleaners
• Scissors

What you do:

Take your sheet of tissue paper and cut it in half lengthways. I used tissue paper from a standard pack and it was roughly a2 size when fully unfolded.

Take the two sheets of tissue paper you have just cut, and cut in half again length ways.

If you are doing multi coloured  flowers, repeat step 1 & 2 so that you can have 2 layers of each colour per flower

Place your 4 sheets of tissue paper in a pile and accordion fold them all together from the short edge up. You want each fold to be about an inch thick

Wrap the top of your pipe cleaner around the middle of your folded tissue paper and twist to keep in place

Shape the end of your tissue paper. Flower 1 was cut to a triangle, flower 2 was rounded and flower 3 was cut into strips

Open out the accordion on one side and gently pull up the top layer of tissue paper, repeat this process until all the layers have been ‘fluffed’ up and repeat on the other side.  

Top tips!

• It can take some adjustment on the layers to fluff them up, if you rip the tissue paper slightly, don’t worry as this just adds to the look.
• Try experimenting with the order you put your colours. On flowers 1 and 2 I alternated the colours. On flower 3, I cut the darker purple in half again and layered it so that the dark purple was all in the top and the bottom layers were the light purple.
• If you don’t have any pipe cleaners you could use string instead and add more layers to make a full circle or you could staple the middle.