How to make Paper Flowers for Kids

Teach your kids how to make paper flowers. An easy and no mess creative activity for kids.

You might think it’s spring or my daughters love for fairies and princesses that inspired us to make paper flowers. But no … it was my 4 year old boy who just wanted to cut something. So I asked him if he’d like to learn how to make paper flowers – and I made sure to tell him that he’s going to do lots of cutting – so he was convinced 🙂

Materials you need to make paper flowers for kids:

• paper
• scissors
• something to write (this is optional if you do this craft activity with older kids)
• glue or stapler

Here are the step by step instructions on how to make paper flowers for kids:

Draw a circle on the paper. It doesn’t have to be a perfect circle and the size doesn’t really matter either. I drew one more or less the size of my hand. Obviously the bigger the circle the bigger the flower.

Draw a spiral inside the circle (starting from outside towards the center). Going twice or 3 times around is enough, but you can go around as many times as you want.

Get the scissors and cut (more or less) along the spiral line – don’t worry if your kid does not cut along the lines. It doesn’t look yet like paper flower, but just wait.

Starting from the outer side of the spiral, roll it towards the center. Motivate your kids to roll the paper as tight as they can.

When there is almost nothing more to roll, put a decent amount of glue on the end of the spiral (which is the center of your circle) and press the “bottom” of the rolled spiral on the glue.

Next thing to do, let the paper flower free and watch it unfold.

Tips for making paper flowers for kids:

• Instead of glue, you can use a stapler in which case- after step 6- you need to staple the beginning of your spiral (which is now the center of your flower) with  the end of your spiral (where you would normally put the glue).
• The weight of the paper is not important, but as a rule of thumb, the younger the kids, the thicker the paper and the bigger the flower you should make. You can even use the inner side of a paper plate if you do this with small kids. This way it is easier for them to handle the paper.

Regardless of the age of your kids, this is a nice  creative activity because it really puts the fine motor skills of the kids to the test:

• The kids get to practice fine cutting as they need to cut the paper flowers spiral by – approximately – following a line.
• And they also exercise fine finger movements and coordination as they need to roll the paper.

Once you have a bunch of paper flowers, you can start thinking of other creative activities for kids where you can use your freshly made paper flowers.

We put our flowers aside, and some time later Victoria made a fairy paper flower crown.

PS: If you’re looking for other kind of paper flowers, I found this easy tutorial for making large tissue flowers that you might find useful also.