Christmas Poinsettia Craft with Masking Tape
A unique Christmas poinsettia craft idea: Using masking tape to create stunning, long-lasting poinsettias.
Ingredients
- Making Tape
- Floral wire
- Paint in red, green, yellow, black
- Paintbrushes
- Clay pot
- Floral foam
- Scissors
Instructions
- Cut several pieces of floral wire to 5-6″ long. Lay a piece of masking tape over top of one wire and wrap the masking tape over the top and press it together with the tape on the reverse side.
- Paint both sides of the masking tape, 8 of the pieces with red paint and 4 pieces with green paint.
- To add vein detail to the leaves, mix the red paint with a bit of yellow paint. Take a bit of the mixed paint and brush along the middle of the tape brushing outwards.
- Repeat this with the green leaves by mixing green with a bit of black paint.
- Once dry, trim off the corners making them all rounded and cut in a shape to resemble a poinsettia leaf. Repeat this step for all the leaves.
- Put your red leaves together by wrapping the stems together, one at a time. Bend the leaves to face upwards. Continue doing this with the rest of the red leaves.
- Next, add the green leaves underneath.
- Finally, wrap floral tape around the stem covering the wire.
- Insert the wire end into a small piece of floral foam inside the mini clay pot and your Christmas poinsettia is done!
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