Who doesn’t love colourful flowers? And especially when they are presented on any special occasion, like birthdays, anniversaries and various parties. So, what if you don’t get the flowers to present your friend or any family member? Well, I have a wonderful idea to present flowers to your loved ones even if you don’t find flowers. How? Let’s make a pretty flower bouquet with only two colourful papers of your choice.

Things you need:

1. Colourful A-4 sized papers (any two colours)

2. One green piece of paper to make the stem

3. Glue stick

4. Scissors

5. A 4-inch piece of ribbon

6. Piece of coloured plastic sheet, (optional, you can use any coloured paper)

Directions:

1. Two-fold the coloured papers vertically, picture 2.

2. Make slits closely, leaving one inch from the bottom, picture 3.

3. Open the paper, and turn inside out, picture 4.

4. Paste glue on the bottom of the paper, (the space you left after making slits), picture 5.

5. Paste both sides of the paper to each other, repeat making slits on the other coloured paper, picture 6.

6. Fold the green coloured paper making it into a stem, and then roll the slit paper carefully on it, picture 7.

7. Roll the other coloured paper with slits over the first one, picture 8.

8. The flower is done, I have made one flower, you can make as many as you want, with as much colours as you want, picture 9.

9. Put the plastic sheet under the flower, put the corner upwards so the bouquet will get its perfect shape; picture 10.

10. Fold the plastic inward from both sides, tie a ribbon, picture 11.

Published in Dawn, Young World, August 8th, 2020