I love the idea of fresh bouquets, but I don’t like that they often fade quickly and that you have to remember to change the water. Paper flowers solve both of those problems! I’ve had a great time creating some different looks with paper flowers to make a cheerful bouquet.
These are very simple to achieve, and don’t require much in the way of supplies.
Materials needed:
- Construction paper in 2-3 colors
- Glue or glue stick
- Scissors
- Paper straw
- Hot glue gun and glue
- Hole punch
Directions:
- Cut 5-6 identical hearts out of the main color you’d like your flowers to be. Five is enough, but 6 will give you a fuller look.
- Cut the same number of smaller hearts out of your secondary color.
- Cut out a small circle. If you are only using 2 colors, I would suggest making this the same color as your smaller hearts. If you’re using a third color, use it for your circle. I have a circle punch that is just right for this (about 1”), but you could also trace the lid of a glue stick, and it would be the perfect size.
- Glue your smaller hearts onto the bigger hearts. Line up the creases at the top.
Tip: If you traced your hearts on the paper before you cut them out, make sure to put the side with the pencil marks on the bottom. - Use your hole punch to make a hole near the bottom point of each heart. Make sure to not get it too close to the edge, because you don’t want it to rip.
- Test your flower by fanning your hearts out while making sure that all of the holes you punched line up. If you feel like you need more or fewer hearts to get your desired look, you can add or remove as needed at this point.
- Put down one of your hearts. Then put a small amount of glue on the bottom of just one side of another heart. Place it on top of the first heart at the angle you want. Continue to do this until you get all the way around.
Tip: Make sure you only put glue on the underside of the hearts – if you try gluing on the top, any extra glue will really show as it dries. Try to keep the glue only in the space where the arrow is in the above picture. Also, keep checking to make sure that your holes are lined up! - On the final one, you will need to put a small amount of glue on both sides of the heart’s underside.
- Place your flower upside down on the table. Place your straw in the hole and hold it flush to the table. Use hot glue to glue around the base of the straw to hold it in place. This will keep the straw from poking through too far at the top.
- Once dry, flip your flower over and use another small ring of hot glue around the outside of the straw. Stick your small circle on it.
- You’re done!
There are a lot of variations you can do with this! In the picture below. I used identical hearts and did everything exactly the same until step 5 – when I switched to punching the holes at the top of the heart. I then followed the rest of the directions exactly. This gives you spikier looking flower, and a kind of swirl effect in the middle.
You can also do it with just one color for the petals, and a second color for the circle, like the light blue one in the picture below.
Or, you can switch to gluing the smaller hearts to line up with the bottom points of the heart, like the pink and yellow one above.
These are really fun and fast to make! I hope you enjoy it enough to try out a few variations and make yourself a whole bouquet. 
