Use coffee filters and watercolours (or washable markers) to make one-of-a-kind flowers.
By: Andrea Mulder-Slater
What You Need:
- Round coffee filters.
- Watercolour paints, water and brushes.
- Optional: Magic Markers
- Scissors
- Pipe Cleaner
- Bead
What You Do:
Paint the coffee filters using watercolour paint with a lot of water.
As an alternative, add designs with washable markers and use plain water and a paintbrush to make the colours run.
Let the coffee filters dry.
Stack the filters and add a colourful muffin liner on top.
Poke a hole through all filters (and the muffin liner) with a pair of scissors and run a pipe cleaner through the hole, securing it with a bead. And add a twisted pipe cleaner stem.
Coffee Filter Flowers
Use coffee filters and watercolours (or washable markers) to make one-of-a-kind flowers.
Materials
- Round coffee filters.
- Watercolour paints, water and brushes.
- Optional: Magic Markers
- Scissors
- Pipe Cleaner
- Bead
Instructions
Paint the coffee filters using watercolour paint with a lot of water.
As an alternative, add designs with washable markers and use plain water and a paintbrush to make the colours run.
Let the coffee filters dry.
Stack the filters and add a colourful muffin liner on top.
Poke a hole through all filters (and the muffin liner) with a pair of scissors and run a pipe cleaner through the hole, securing it with a
bead. And add a twisted pipe cleaner stem.
