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
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Take a Straw
You will make a hyacinth flower from a thick pink straw. Insert a thin wire into the tube.
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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.
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Cut the Straw to the End
Make incisions along the entire length of the straw with scissors.
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Straighten the Incisions
You can do this with the tips of scissors or with a toothpick.
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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.
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Twist the Straw
Wind this wire (with a pink tube) around the green stalk. At the same time, gradually shift down.
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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.
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Use a Green Straw
Start making leaflets for your flower. Cut a couple of pieces from a thick green tube.
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Make Incisions on the Green Straw
Cut the straws lengthwise.
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Make the Sharp Ends of the Leaves
Expand the resulting blank. Make long serrated incisions on one side of it.
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Use Scissors
Gently twist the tips with scissors.
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Repeat the Steps
Make another such blank of leaves.
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Connect the Flower with the Leaves
Fasten the first leaves under the flower. Fix everything on transparent tape.
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Finish Your Craft
Fasten the remaining leaves in the same way. Your drinking straw hyacinth is ready.
If you make several flowers, you will get a beautiful bouquet. This can be used as a unique gift for your mother or grandmother.
