It's amazing how many interesting things you can do with napkins. The ideas are endless! If you're looking for inexpensive yet gorgeous party decorations, check out 25 great examples, how to make flowers from napkins with your own handsthat will make your holiday bright and cheerful.
Here you will find different options - simple flowers from napkins , large and small, flowers from colored napkins and Kleenex napkins. There are even several lessons on how to make flowers from coffee filters, essentially the same as napkins. There are step-by-step photos for each example, and for more detailed information you can use the links to the source under each gallery.
Chinese rose
To create, you will need one red and green napkin and small scissors.
Execution sequence:
- The red napkin is folded in half three times and cut. The result will be rectangular strips.
- One strip is folded in half lengthwise and wrapped around the finger. You will get a flower bud. The petals open and straighten, the lower part retracts and lengthens. The product will be attached to the stem through this area.
- The green paper is folded neatly but tightly around the bottom of the red bud.
- The resulting flower can be used as an independent decorative element or fixed on a stem, placed in a vase and decorated with an interior, adding a unique and eye-catching detail to the decor.
Chinese red impressive and sophisticated rose is ready!
Daisies
Using the following method, you can fold a voluminous chamomile, decorate a gift with it, or make a bouquet. To work you will need 7-9 white two-layer napkins, cotton wool and thread.
Fold the white napkin in half, twist it in the center, and form a butterfly. After which the “wings” should be folded and collected at the bottom - you get a petal. The same must be done with the remaining white napkins.
And from the yellow one we form the core of a chamomile - place a piece of cotton wool in the middle and wrap it around it. And finally, each petal should be tied with a thread to the yellow center. Now the lush chamomile is ready!
The basis
- cut the sleeve on one side and bend it so that a small platform is formed;
- dilute the plaster to the consistency of thick sour cream and immerse the trunk there with the uncut end, and lay the surface with small pebbles, lightly pressing into the gypsum mass;
- when the solution hardens, place the ball on the platform using hot glue;
- drape the stem coated with glue with a satin ribbon.
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A couple of interesting ideas
Rose
- A beautiful rose should be made from a plain red or pink napkin. But here it’s optional. Take a napkin and bend it at one edge by 1 cm. Then you need to wrap the napkin around your index finger to form a cylinder.
- We squeeze and scroll the napkin, resulting in a rosebud being formed. Now let's move on to the petals. They need to be unraveled, starting from the folded layer, gradually moving forward, as if in a spiral.
- If you want your rose to have a stem, then you need to completely unfold the napkin and twist its edge a couple of centimeters. The result is a thin tube. Slowly wrap the bud, as indicated in the photo, and then completely roll up the entire napkin, except for one corner, which will be our leaf.
Poppy
- From a red napkin you need to cut out two circles: one smaller, the other larger. Then you need to put a small circle on a large one and thread a wire in the center of them. To prevent the wire from jumping out of the hole, you need to make a small loop, as shown in the photo.
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- And we wrap the rest of the wire, which is now the poppy stem, with green electrical tape or tape. Poppy petals should be lifted up to give them volume.
Mimosa branches
Mimosa is a lovely, delicate flower that is used to decorate bouquets on the eve of spring festivities. Each of us can contemplate such beauty all year round if we make a paper mimosa sprig in the form of a wall panel and an artificial three-dimensional plant for a vase in the living room.
The painstaking work begins with the formation of a large number of flowers, each of them is made from a narrow strip of napkin, cut like “grass”. After this, cut the green napkin into leaves with fluffy edges.
The applique does not require a stem, but a wire is required to create a bouquet. We wrap the wire with a green napkin, attach leaves, and cover it with many flowers.
Making a lotus flower from napkins
- We take a simple square napkin, the size is not important, but it is better to choose a gentle and natural color;
- the napkin must be completely expanded into a large square;
- bend all corners to the center (as in the photo);
- then the workpiece must be turned over; (it is important to ensure that your product is folded as evenly and correctly as possible);
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- Now you no longer need to turn the napkin over, but rather pick up a corner, as shown in the photo, and lift one corner;
- now you need to quietly pull this corner up;
- and at the same time, so that the inside of the napkin does not unfold, it must be held;
- We straighten the remaining petals in the same way as in the photo.
- your lotus is ready.
This lotus can be used to decorate plates when setting the table for a gala lunch or gala dinner.
And in this video there is a slightly more complicated version: A flower napkin holder, which will not only decorate the festive table, but the napkins can also be used for their intended purpose, because... they come out easily.
History of napkin etiquette
People first thought about hygiene at the table and began using napkins 3,500 years ago.
Initially, napkins looked like fig leaves - this is how slaves wiped the faces and hands of their masters.
Alabaster napkins were used in Ancient Rome and only by rich people.
The same napkins were used by the Greeks and the rulers of eastern states.
Later in Rome they began to use linen napkins with embroidery and it was considered good form to always carry them with you - this is where the fashion of embroidering your initials on napkins came from.
In Japan and China, rice paper napkins were used. Before use, they were kneaded well, and then simply thrown away.
In Rus', napkins began to be used in 1729, and before that, clothing sleeves or tablecloths were usually used instead.
Peonies
Peonies are a symbol of femininity, attractiveness and beauty.
Execution sequence:
- A pink, red, white napkin is folded using the accordion technique and tied in the center.
- Using scissors, cut off sharp corners to create rounded edges.
- Each edge and layer rises, the flower fluffs up, giving a beautiful volume.
- The resulting product is firmly fixed on the prepared stem.
Also, if desired, during creativity you can use napkins of various colors. This will add special effectiveness and uniqueness to the resulting image, giving it lightness and uniqueness.
The magnificent peony is ready!
Decor
For each bud you will need 6 - 8 paper blanks.
- cut the two-layer backing into 8 parts;
- one by one, tightly wrap the parts around the pencil, and then remove and secure at the base with thread;
- spread the petals.
The number of roses depends on the size of the ball.
- Carefully glue the flowers to the base and let the craft dry;
- decorate roses with light beads or rhinestones.
The composition can be monochromatic or multi-colored. It all depends on the wishes of the needlewoman.
Red blooming roses
To make such a spectacular scarlet rose with a blooming bud, you will need 2 large napkins measuring 20 by 20 cm. Cut each of them into 4 parts and put them together. Fix the center with thread or a stapler. From the resulting square of napkins we form a circle, cutting the edges with scissors.
Next, we lift each layer in turn and form a petal with a wave-like shape. For work, we prepare a large number of napkins to make the rose look even more natural.
Tree of happiness
The idea of artificial dwarf trees with a spherical crown - topiaries - came to us from Europe. "Topiary" translated from Greek means "tree of happiness." Therefore, roses will be very appropriate in the decor of this installation.
For the craft you will need a foam ball (it can be replaced with a newspaper blank), pink or red, white or lemon-colored napkins, a paper towel roll for the barrel, a flower pot, and plaster for pouring. Satin ribbons and beads - to decorate the composition.
Yellow roses
Such lush flowers made from paper napkins can be made with your own hands without much difficulty. To simplify the work, you can watch a special training video or study a detailed diagram with the step-by-step production of lush roses.
In this case, you will need thread and napkins: yellow and green for the stem. We unfold the yellow napkin and carefully divide it into 2 parts, each of which we wrap around a pen or pencil.
Leave 2 cm in reserve and compress it towards the center. We remove the roll and form a bud from it. We twist the remaining sheets, pressing them tightly with our fingers. We wrap the bud in a green napkin and tie it with thread so that it does not fall apart.
Daisy
Although the daisy has thin petals, it is made from a napkin in a different way. This flower has curled petals and a terry center. The center of the flower is almost always yellow, so you need to prepare napkins in 3 colors: yellow, green and the chosen color for the petals. To add additional volume, it is better to use multi-layer napkins.
- A strip 4 cm wide and 15 cm long is cut out of a yellow napkin.
- The strip along the entire length of the upper edge is cut into thin stamens 2-3 cm wide. You do not need to cut deeply, leaving 2 cm of the strip intact.
- Cut the wire to the required length.
- Using a glue stick, attach one end of the yellow strip with the cut side up to the wire.
- Wind the strip tightly onto the wire evenly.
- The end of the strip is secured with glue and the workpiece is put aside.
- From a napkin of the selected color, cut out 2 strips 6 cm wide and 21 cm long.
- Each strip must be cut into petals 5-6 mm wide.
- One strip of petals is glued onto the blank and wrapped evenly around the yellow base.
- The end of the strip is sealed with glue.
- The second strip is also glued and wound.
- The bottom of the flower must be wrapped tightly with wire to secure all the layers.
- Cut a strip 1 cm wide and 20 cm long from a green napkin.
- One side of the strip is fixed at the bottom of the bud with glue and the base of the flower and stem are wrapped with a green napkin.
- Cut a circle with a diameter of 3-4 cm from a green napkin.
- Small teeth are cut around the circumference of the circle.
- Make a hole in the center of the circle and insert the stem into it.
- Then you need to apply glue to the circle and glue it in the form of sepals at the bottom of the bud.
- All petals of the flower bend away from the center. If possible, the napkins are divided into all layers.
- The middle of the flower also needs to be fluffed.
- Then you need to glue several leaves cut from a green napkin onto the stem and the flower is ready.
Decorating the room
The floral theme is relevant for the production of panels and paintings. On an autumn or winter day, such crafts will take you back to spring or warm summer.
Learning to make your first flowers
How to make flowers from napkins? I will explain step by step for each type of inflorescence below. If you want to make a bouquet of identical flowers of different shades, then it is best to do them in one go - this way you can make the flowers more or less similar, in the same style.
Or a slightly different option, first cut out the folded curves with scissors, then straighten the napkin and fold it like an accordion (the more frequent the accordion step, the more voluminous the result will be). We tie it with thread and straighten the petals:
These pompoms can be used to decorate gift boxes in an original way; it looks very aesthetically pleasing and festive!
Flowers can be flat - for example, lotuses, and voluminous - for example, roses.
