How to make flowers from paper napkins: applique with children

It is also interesting that to create such applications you don't need a lot of scrap materials at all. Sometimes napkins alone are enough to create a beautiful fake.

You will need:

• white cardboard;
• napkins of any color;
• compass with scissors;
• stapler;
• glue;

Instructions:

1. Use a compass and then a pair of scissors.
2. Cut a circle out of a paper napkin.
3. Then fold this circle, overlapping the sides. You should have a kind of bag, with a narrow part on one side, and a wide part on the other.
4. Then fix it in the middle with a stapler.
5. It remains to turn out the wide part of the workpiece.
6. Pull the wide part down so that the narrow one is in the middle.
7. You should have the first flower from the applique.
8. Make 4 more of these flowers from a napkin of a different color.
   
9. Next, you need to take another napkin of a different color. For example, green.
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10. First, cut a few narrow strips to act as flower stalks.
11. Glue them to the bottom of the white cardboard.
12. Cut out the leaves from the same green napkin.
13. They need to be evenly glued onto your applique.
14. It remains to fix the flowers.
15. Fix the first flower with PVA glue.
16. Then distribute the remaining flowers.
17. You should have a bouquet.
18. It can be decorated with a bow made of red satin ribbon.

Recall

• The ABC of the needlewoman: crochet applique patterns
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• The needlewoman's alphabet: what can be done from the leftover thread