DIY Coffee Filter Flowers
Coffee Filter Flowers
Coffee filter flowers are not only super inexpensive and fun but that easy to. Some of the best activities are the most straightforward. This DIY activity is also great if you're in a pinch I can't think of anything to do on a rainy day.
Making coffee filter flowers is great for groups or single adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities because it works for people with all different ranges of motion.
It’s also a sensory activity as well as a science experiment. So, how do you make coffee filter flowers?
You Will Need:
- Markers
- Large coffee filters
- Water spray bottle
- Wax paper
- Green pipe cleaners
- Table cloth or liner
Instructions
- You will want to protect your work area by covering the table with a plastic table cloth or liner.
- Next, tear off a piece of wax paper big enough to accommodate 3 coffee filters and place them on top.
- Make designs on the coffee filters using markers. Whatever you fancy doing! The colors will blend together quite a bit, so the designs will blur.
- Once you’re finished designing, get your water spray bottle and give your designed coffee filters 5 or 6 times.
- Wait until the decorated coffee filters have dried before discarding the wax paper. As it drys, the colors will bleed.
- Once dry, stack all filters for a single flower together and fold in half.
- Fold in half again.
- Unfold them and make a small hole in the middle of all 3 by poking a pencil through or snipping off a very tiny piece of the middle point.
- Get two green pipe cleaners and twist them together.
- Make a little ball at one end of the united pipe cleaners.
- Thread the non-balled-up end through the hole in the middle of the coffee filters.
- Pull all the way through until the ball is resting just inside the middle. If the ball goes through the middle, make the ball larger.
- On the base of the flower (underneath the petals), wrap a new piece of green pip cleaner to make a green base. Twist it around the stalk and then gently coil it around the base of the flower.
- Fold over the very end of the stalk (not the ball end) to make sure that the wire from the pipe cleaner doesn’t poke anyone!
- And you’re done! Make a whole bouquet if you’d like!
About Stephen’s Place
Stephen’s Place is an independent apartment community for adults with developmental and intellectual disabilities, located in Vancouver, WA (7 minutes from Portland, OR).
If you have a loved one with developmental or intellectual disabilities who is looking for a community to live in, please contact us for more information.
Stephen’s Place is a private-pay apartment community due to our state-of-the-art amenities and programs. We are a nonprofit and do not profit from our community. We are private pay because we spend more than some housing communities to ensure that our residents are comfortable and can safely live their lives with independence and dignity.
