Pompom paper flowers are one of the easiest flowers you can craft so you can make a bunch in a short time. You can turn the flowers into a heart in one of two ways either creating an open heart or a solid heart. By changing the size of the flowers you can also modify the finished project either making it large enough for a wall or small enough to hang from a doorknob. This is an inexpensive project that works up in an hour or two, depending on the size and pattern.
Craft Materials
- You want craft tissue in the colors of your choice. Although you can use a single color, a variety of matching colors adds some interest to the look of your craft project by making each flower stand out.
- You will also need chenille stems. In some cases you can cut them in half, in other cases you’ll want to leave them full length. The size you need will depend on what size heart you want to make and whether you will make and open or closed (filled-in) heart.
- You’ll also need scissors. A circle template (a drinking glass, CD, or a stencil) and pencil will help if you want to make your flowers the same size.
- If you want, you can use a purchased wire or grapevine heart-shaped wreath to apply the flowers. If you can crisscross chenille stems across the wreath, then you can also create a filled-in heart this way. You can also try hooking the chenille stems together to create your heart shape. This project uses a lot of flowers so make a small heart unless you have someone else willing to help you make flowers.
How to Make Paper Flowers
- Lay flat one sheet of craft tissue. Use the pencil and template to draw circles all over the tissue. Don’t bear down hard with the pencil or you’ll tear the delicate tissue. Keep the circles close to one another so you don’t waste paper.
- Set that piece of tissue on top of three more sheets. By cutting through four sheets at once, you’ll save time. The four sheets of craft tissue don’t have to be the same color; you can assemble the circles into whatever color flower you want.
- Cut out the circles. If you used different colors then sort the similar colors into stacks.
- Bend one end of each chenille stem into a nub, knot, or twist.
- Slide one circle onto the chenille stem, stopping at the nub. Scrunch the circle with your hand. Slide three more circles onto the stem. The flower really will look better if you scrunch each circle individually instead of doing four at a time. Open the flower, layer by layer. Don’t smooth the wrinkles in the paper.
How to Make a Valentine Heart
Twist two chenille stems together and then add on with additional flowers. Don’t start off by placing the flowers close to one another, you can always go back in and fill in the gaps. If you are using a wreath frame, keep adding flowers until you’ve filled the wreath. If you aren’t attaching the flowers to a form then just keep twisting the chenille stems together.
An open heart is an outline of a heart; only, instead of drawing it with a pen you are making the heart with paper flowers and chenille stems. An open heart can be thin, make from a single thickness of interlocked flowers or full, with a few flowers grouped next to one another.
A closed or filled-in heart is a heart-shape filled in with flowers. This is a bit more difficult to do. You’ll want to anchor flowers to different chenille stems; avoid attaching all of your flowers to a single stem.
Making a Valentine’s Day heart craft is a fun project for an afternoon. The more children working on a single heart, the quicker you can get to completion.
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