Homemade Flowers For Mother's Day!

Mother's Day is coming up and I know you all aren't going to have your kids make you crafts from this blog. But you could have dad look at this blog, and you could make these for Grandma for Mother's Day. Anyway these are really cute.

What you'll need:

• Basket coffee filters
• Water color paints
• Green Chenile Stems (1 per flower)
  

How to make it:

1. Flatten coffee filter onto work surface (place some scratch paper or newspaper underneath).
2. Paint coffee filter with watercolor paint. Let the filters dry.
3. Cut about 2” off the end of a chenille stem and set both pieces aside.
4. There are several different ways to make your flowers. You can fringe the ends in thin strips (leaving the center whole) to make the flower that resembles a pom pom. You can cut thicker strips, about 1” wide each, to make the petaled flower or don’t cut the filter at all to make the rose.
5. Insert the large piece of green chenille into the center of the coffee filter about 1.5” in. Hold onto the small end and turn the flower upside down so that the long end of the chenille is sticking up.
6. Grasp the center of the coffee filter and gather it around the small end of the chenille.
7. Twist the smaller piece of chenille around the gathered filter to secure the flower in place. Turn the flower back over and fluff the petals as needed.