Easy Pipe Cleaner Flowers

These easy pipe cleaner daffodils and tulips have to be the PRETTIEST things I’ve ever made from pipe cleaners.

Easy Pipe Cleaner Flowers

Materials:

Daffodils 

3 yellow pipe cleaners

1 orange pipe cleaner

1 green pipe cleaner

hot glue gun

Instructions:

Start by folding each of the yellow pipe cleaners in half to find the mid point. Then open them back up and arrange them into a star, twisting them at the middle so they stay in place. Take each end and roll it tightly like a snail. Keep winding it until you get to the center.

Repeat until all the “pedals” are rolled up and then arrange them evenly.

For the stem, bend about 1″ of the end of the green pipe cleaner into a “J” shape and loop it through the middle of the flower.

And then twist it on the bottom to keep it in place.

Take the orange pipe cleaner and start winding it tightly, again like a snail, but stop after a few rotations.

Then wrap it tightly around your baby finger.

When it comes off your finger, pinch it tightly to compress the layers as much as possible. Then add a generous dab of hot glue to the bottom of the orange “cup”. And press it firmly onto the center of the yellow “pedals”. 

For the Clay Pots

I got the tiny clay pots at the dollar store, and they were perfect for my little flower arrangements. I filled each one with sand, approximately 3/4 of the way full, and then I wound up two black pipe cleaners into a spiral to fit on top to cover the sand. Then I poked each flower and leaf through the black spiral and into the sand.

I made a few simple leaves by folding the green pipe cleaners in half. Aren’t they gorgeous!? I love them!!

Tulips:

Materials:

5 red pipe cleaners

1 green pipe cleaner

Scissors

A ruler

Take 4 of the red pipe cleaners and cut them into thirds. My pipe cleaners were 12″ long so I cut them into 4″ long pieces.

Instructions:

Take each of the 4″ pieces and fold them in half.

Then line them up side by side so that all the end pieces are at the top and all the folds are at the bottom:

Place the green pipe cleaner somewhere in the middle, lining it up with the tops.

Then bunch them all together as best you can so that the green pipe cleaner is in the center. Take the remaining red pipe cleaner and starting about 3/4″ from the end, tightly wrap it around the bunch. Continue wrapping the red pipe cleaner around the bunch so that it neatly covers the tips and holds them in place.

Take the pipe cleaner pieces and bend each of them upwards. Continue bending all of the pieces upwards to create the pedals. Pinch the pieces together tightly to shape the tulip bud. Then slightly bend each “pedal” towards the inside. You can shape the pedals so that the tulip is a closed bud, or a more open tulip flower, depending on what you like best.

Hyacinths:

Materials:

1 purple pipe cleaner

1 green pipe cleaner

Instructions:

Knitting needle or pencil

Place the green pipe cleaner on the knitting needle or pencil so that the tips line up. Starting about 2″ from the end, tightly wind the purple pipe cleaner around the knitting needle and green pipe cleaner. Keep winding until you get to the end, making sure the windings get more narrow as you get to the tip. Carefully remove the knitting needle from the pipe cleaners. If the windings look too “perfect” bend the flower a little to give it more character. Make a bunch of them and stand them up in a pot with simple green spike leaves.