Flowers can be made not only from paper, clay and plasticine, but also from unusual materials. In this lesson, you will learn how to make a hyacinth flower from drinking straws.

Materials and tools:

a thin green drinking straw;
a couple of thick green and pink straws;
scissors;
transparent tape;
thin floral wire.

How to make a hyacinth from straws in 14 steps.

Total Time: 25 minutes

Take a Straw

You will make a hyacinth flower from a thick pink straw. Insert a thin wire into the tube.
Take the Scissors

Start making frequent incisions on one side of the tube. Hold the wire on the other side, this will not cut through the tube completely.
Cut the Straw to the End

Make incisions along the entire length of the straw with scissors.
Straighten the Incisions

You can do this with the tips of scissors or with a toothpick.
Do not Remove the Wire

Bend one end of it at a right angle and insert it into a thin green tube, which will be a hyacinth stalk.
Twist the Straw

Wind this wire (with a pink tube) around the green stalk. At the same time, gradually shift down.
Twist to the End

Continue to twist, until the pink tube is not going to end. Wrap the tip of the wire around the stalk.
Use a Green Straw

Start making leaflets for your flower. Cut a couple of pieces from a thick green tube.
Make Incisions on the Green Straw

Cut the straws lengthwise.
Make the Sharp Ends of the Leaves

Expand the resulting blank. Make long serrated incisions on one side of it.
Use Scissors

Gently twist the tips with scissors.
Repeat the Steps

Make another such blank of leaves.
Connect the Flower with the Leaves

Fasten the first leaves under the flower. Fix everything on transparent tape.
Finish Your Craft

Fasten the remaining leaves in the same way. Your drinking straw hyacinth is ready.