Maker Monday: Recycled Magazine Flowers

Get creative with all of those magazines and catalogs stacking up on the coffee table.

Kids will have fun making pretty paper posies and you can then arrange them in a vase for a lovely and fun centerpiece.Supplies needed:

Magazine or catalog

Pipe cleaners

3-hole puncher

Scissors or paper cutter

Directions:Tear a few pieces of paper out of a recycled magazine.  Then, 3-hole punch along both of the vertical sides of the paper.Using scissors — or a paper cutter — cut along the vertical side so that you create strips of magazine paper with holes.  Repeat until you have enough strips.  We recommend at least 3-4 strips per pipe cleaner for a flower.About 1 inch from the end of one pipe cleaner, make a kink. Then, bring the two corners together to create a “stop” in your pipe cleaner.

Take a magazine strip and put the pipe cleaner through the middle hole.

Then, take each end of the magazine strip and fold it over so that the holes at the end are through the top of the pipe cleaner.

 Repeat until your flower is full as you wish with your desired number of magazine strips.

 Coil the top of your pipe cleaner to keep your “petals” in place! You now have a Recycled Magazine Flower!

You can do variations to the flower by adding many magazine strips or creating a bouquet and putting multiple flowers in a vase — or recycled plastic container. 

For more Maker Monday projects and other fun ideas, visit the Kidsburgh  Activities Page.