Filter Paper Flowers

Make colorful tie-dyed effect flowers out of coffee filter. String them together to make a flower lei or use them for your collages, greeting cards, decoupage and other craft projects.	Safety Tips Kids 8 years and younger should use child-safe scissors.
Materials Filter paper (coffee filter or laboratory filter paper) Food coloring (red, yellow, blue) or crepe paper Droppers, small spoons, or small squeeze bottles Scissors

Steps

	1.	Draw and cut 6 or more flower shapes on coffee filters or laboratory filter paper.
	2.	Place food coloring on your palette.
		*Here's an alternative to food coloring: Soak (bleeding type) crepe paper in a small amount of water. Wait for 5 minutes or until the water attains the desired color intensity. Remove the crepe paper and use the colored water in place of food coloring.
	3.	Put a few drops of red food coloring on a flower using a dropper or small spoon. Add a few drops of blue. Watch as the two colors blend together. What new color is created?
	4.	Repeat this process using other colors on the rest of the flowers. Primary colors mixed together create new colors called secondary colors: blue and yellow make green, red and blue make purple, yellow and red make orange.
	5.	Let the flowers dry completely.

More Ideas

	Once they're dry, use the flowers to compose a picture.
	Decorate a greeting card with them.
	You can also string them together to make a colorful Hula Lei.

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