Coffee Filter Flowers

So here is a craft that that I did when I was little.. coffee filter flowers. You start off with a coffee filter decorated however you like. Color it with markers, soak it in some watered down acrylics, leave it white... I painted mine with watercolors. 

Fold in half.

Roll that up.

Twist the tip.

Then just open it up and form the flowers.

You could stop right there. I wanted to put mine into a dollar store vase so I twisted some wire around them to form a "stem".

Then I repeated a whole bunch of times. It took about 15 for me to get a full vase. This is easy to do with kids as well. You can have them decorate the coffee filters and if they are old enough you can have them make the whole flower.

-Karen

Heart Wreath

I have no Valentine's Day decorations. Actually, my husband and I don't celebrate Valentine's Day like most people do. No presents, no Valentine's Day date, just a "happy Valentine's Day. I love you." So when it comes to decorations I am certainly not going to spend money. Instead I grabbed cardboard, coffee filters, some acrylic paint, and my glue gun.

First I cut out out a heart shape. Really you could make one of these for any holiday. Just white for winter, a green shamrock for St. Patrick's Day... but for now a heart.

Next, I took a ton of coffee filters. I filled a container ~1/2 inch with water. Then stirred in a small amount of paint. Taking clumps of approximately 25 coffee filters I dipped the ends into the paint. I did each clump for a different amount of time so some were pail pink, others were darker pink. I let them sit for a few hours to dry.

Then I had to take all the coffee filters and pinch them in the middle.

A little twist at the end and you have a coffee filter puff.

Then start gluing.

And gluing.

And some more gluing.

Until your wreath is an full as you would like it. From there you can add a ribbon and hang it. Or add any other decorations to it that you would like.

-Karen