In festive bloom
Roll and secure: a surprisingly easy but beautiful Christmas flower from baking paper
Baking paper can become an eye-catching floral decoration for your wall, door, or window. The ornament is made of rolled paper petals that attach to a cardboard backing. Follow our instructions to create your own paper flower!
Festive Christmas flower from baking paper: materials needed
- Half a roll of baking paper, 38 cm (15 inches) wide
- About 20 × 20 cm (8 inches × 8 inches) piece of cardboard
- A compass or a pencil and a 20 cm (8 inches)-diameter plate
- 10 cm (4 inches) of string or ribbon for hanging
- Scissors, tape, and a stapler
- Three hot glue sticks and a hot glue gun.
Festive Christmas flower: instructions
- Cut 16 sheets of baking paper, each 19 × 38 cm (7.5 inches × 15 inches). Then cut each piece in half to form squares, and trim them corner to corner into curved petal shapes. Next, cut 8 sheets of 12.5 × 38 cm (4.9 inches × 15 inches). Cut each of those into three squares and shape them into petals by trimming corner to corner. Use a stapler to roll and secure one end of each petal, as shown above.
- Cut a circle from the cardboard and attach a hanging loop to the back with glue or a stapler. Leave the loop’s top about a centimeter or two (0.4–0.8 inches) inside the circle’s edge. Then tape over the attachment for extra support.
- Use hot glue to attach 16 large petals by their narrow tips around the perimeter of the cardboard circle. The stapled ends should rest about 6 cm (2.4 inches) onto the cardboard. For the next row, placed about 1 cm (0.4 inches) closer to the center, attach eight large petals, then another eight for the row after. Continue with the smaller petals as you work toward the center. In the final rows, the narrow tips will cross and overlap, and the outer tips will stand upright around the flower’s center. Use the end of a pencil, for example, to press the tips down so you don’t burn your fingers on the hot glue.
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