Filter Paper Flowers
Watch colors blend to create new colors while making these bright tie-dyed effect flowers from filter paper. String the flowers together to make a colorful lei or use the flowers as elements in your collages, pictures, greeting cards, decoupages and other art crafts.
Materials Needed
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Safety Guidelines
- Always let your child use child-safe scissors.
Steps
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1. | Draw and cut 6 or more flower shapes on coffee filters or laboratory filter paper. | |
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2. | Place food coloring on your palette. | |
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If you don't have food coloring, you may use crepe paper instead. Simply soak strips of crepe paper in water. Wait for 5-10 minutes or until the water attains the desired color intensity. Remove the crepe paper and use the resulting colored water in the succeeding steps. | ||
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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? | |
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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. Instead of using spoons, you may also use squeeze bottles to dispense the food coloring. | |
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5. | Let the flowers dry completely. | |
More Ideas
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Once they're dry, use the flowers to compose a picture. | |
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Decorate a greeting card with them. | |
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You can also string them together to make a colorful Hula Lei. | |
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