When we found out that one of our neighbors was ill, we thought of going to the flower shop to get some flowers until we realized our time and energy constraints so we ended up deciding to make our own get well flowers.

I thought maybe we could use some of the sticks from our stick collection.

Stick collection? In our home, we love our nature collection. My pre-schooler has a collection of pinecones, acorns, sea shells, feathers and especially sticks. For our household, anything beyond the size of the designated container must stay outside. Also, as beautiful as leaves and flowers are, they do not get added to the container as they are too fragile and disintegrate into fodder for our vacuum cleaner.

Materials

tissue paper - we saved them from previously received birthday presents
sticks
at least 3 pipe cleaners per flower
leaf cut outs (not pictured above)

here are the steps

Gather and cut the tissue paper into a large flower. Trimming the tisue paper into a flower with petals is an option too, but not necessary.
Cinch the tissue paper in the middle and wrap the first pipe cleaner around it.
- Use the two ends of the first pipe cleaner as stamen of the flower
- Repeat this step, so that there are 4 stamen.
- Roll down the ends to act as anthers
- Thread the third pipe cleaner through the back of one or both of the first two pipe cleaners and wrap this around the top of the stick
We had leaf cut outs, so we attached them with another pipe cleaner

Here’s the final. It was noted that these flowers would not die unlike fresh flowers.