These handprint lilies are so beautiful and surprisingly easy to make! They’d make such a thoughtful handmade gift idea if you make a small bouquet and tie them together with a ribbon. Either way, they’re adorable for spring and they’re a wonderful low mess craft to make with the kids. Below are the steps courtesy of onelittleproject.com.
The materials required are pink paper, 6 green, and yellow pipe cleaners, pencil, tape, and scissors.
Start by tracing the outline of your hand onto the printer paper. Then cut out your handprint. If you have any pencil marks showing on the paper, just use an eraser to carefully erase them. Curl the bottom of the handshape into a cone. Leave a small hole at the tip of the cone, just large enough to fit a pipe cleaner through.
Then use a small piece of invisible tape to hold it together. Use a round pencil to curl each one of the fingers of the handprint outwards. Curl each one of the fingers outwards so that your flower looks something like this:
If you don’t have short pipe cleaners, just cut the standard 12″ long pipe cleaners in half. Start by bending the yellow pipe cleaner in half:
Pinch the “J” shape in the green pipe cleaner so it tightly holds the yellow pipe cleaner. If there’s room, you can twist it a little, but as long as you pinch it tightly, it should hold itself together nicely. Then take the longer end of the yellow pipe cleaner and wrap it tightly around the shorter side of the yellow pipe cleaner. Keep wrapping tightly until you reach the end of the yellow pipe cleaner.
Take the pipe cleaner stem and poke it through the middle of the handprint flower, pulling it all the way through so the green stem is below the flower and the yellow part is in the middle of the flower. Then repeat all of these steps to make yourself a small bouquet!
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