How to Make Poppy from Paper: Manufacturing and Application Options

Poppies made of paper, made with their own hands, can become a wonderful decoration of the room, an element of festive decoration or a gift for a celebration. They are used both one by one and in a bouquet with other colors. For example, with cornflowers, daisies, sunflowers and various spikelets.

In addition, poppies from corrugated paper are great for creating sweet gifts - bouquets of chocolates. To turn an ordinary flower into a present with a surprise, it is worth replacing the paper center with an originally wrapped delicacy.

What will be required for the poppy?

Before you make a poppy from paper, you should stock up on the necessary materials and tools:

1. Corrugated paper (red, green and black).
2. Rigid wire or wooden skewers.
3. Cotton thread.
4. Adhesive tape or glue gun.
5. Black marker.
6. Heavy paper, of which templates will be made.
7. Sharp scissors.

In the event that poppies made of paper, created by themselves, designed to organize the composition in a basket or flowerpot, you will need to select a small beautiful container. To fix the colors, additional materials will be needed: polystyrene or a floral sponge. It will take an organza, net or fabric to fill the space inside the basket.

Saw paper

To make the petals, you need to draw and cut out the poppy pattern from the paper. Its shape should be wide at the top and narrowed downwards.

To obtain petals of the same shape and size, you need to cut out six rectangles of red paper (their size is 8 x 11 cm). In addition to large elements, the flowers of the poppy also include green sepals. The blanks for them will be slightly smaller: 5 cm in width and 4 in length. According to the pre-prepared template, several leaves are cut from the green paper. Do not make them more than 8.5 cm in length. The stem will be wrapped with a strip of green paper. Its length is 50 cm, width - 2.

Creating a poppy

Each of the cut lobes must be processed as follows:

• Mark the bottom part with a marker. In doing so, you should avoid tearing the paper and creating too sharp strokes. The border should be slightly blurry.
• The upper edge of the petal should be carefully stretched with your fingers along the entire length so that the effect of ruches turns out.

Preparing the middle:

1. A bundle of thick paper wrapped in a rectangle of green material.
2. Firmly attach to the stem of the flower (skewers, wire).
3. On the upper plane of the middle, you should draw the strokes with a black marker.

Stamens will be made of black paper. For the workpiece, you must cut a rectangle 12 in length and 4.5 cm in width. Then, along one of the long sides, it is necessary to make cuts of 3 centimeters. Until the end can not be cut. All narrow stripes need to be carefully rolled with fingers into the tubes, making sure that they do not come off. When all the details are prepared, they only need to be collected and fixed.

By the way, the availability of materials should be taken care of in advance, if you are thinking about how to make poppies from paper. Today, many stationery stores sell rolls of various types of decorative materials.

How to Make Poppy from Paper: Flower Arrangement

First you need to turn around the green center of the black stamens. They are attached with a drop of glue, tape or just a thread. Then comes time to fix the petals. They are stacked in turn, overlapping. Since their base is quite wide, when folding the petals it is necessary to form uniform folds in one direction. At the next stage sepals are fixed in the same way. The stem of the finished flower is decorated with a long stripe of green paper. First, double the base of the sepals, and then decorate the skewer or wire. The planned parts of the stem are attached to the leaves.

Knowing how to make poppies from paper, you can easily create a composition from any number of such colors. By the way, their palette does not have to be scarlet, it can vary. For example, poppies of yellow, blue and violet paper look great. In order for all flowers to form a reliable, stable composition, polystyrene (floristic sponge) is placed on the bottom of the basket or pot. From above it is decorated with green paper. The stems of flowers, piercing the foam, hold firmly in it. Empty space is filled with a mesh, paper, cloth or other colors.