How to Make a Paper Towel Rose
Use washable markers to "paint" paper towel and fold these beautiful paper towel roses! These DIY paper flowers are simple to make and look surprisingly realistic! Follow our easy step-by-step tutorial to make your own.
Yield: 1 paper towel rose
Cost: $1
Equipment
Materials
Instructions
Step 1: Find what you need
- Gather your supplies and materials.
Step 2: Colour the paper towel
- Place your paper towel on a baking sheet or another protected surface that can handle marker and water.Choose at least 3 colours of washable marker that will go nicely together.
- Start colouring parts of the paper towel with 1 colour, leaving lots of space between the sections.
- Add your second colour of marker between the first. Then fill in the rest of the paper towel with your third colour.It's okay if there's a bit of white space between the colours, but you'll want to fill most of it.
- Begin using an eye dropper to add water onto the coloured paper towel.
- Repeat until the whole paper towel is saturated. Allow to dry.
Step 3: Connect the paper towel to the "stem"
- Once the paper towel is dry, carefully peel apart the layers.(Only do this if your paper towel is 2 ply.)
- This will give you 2 thin pieces of coloured paper towel to work with, 1 at a time.
- Holding the paper with a long edge towards you, fold the left side down until it's about 3/8 inch above the bottom edge.
- Add a dot of hot glue near the bottom left corner.
- Place the end of a green paper straw into the glue.
Step 4: Begin folding the rose shape
- Fold the left corner of the paper over the straw and then roll the straw to the right once, covering it.
- Now fold the angled part of the paper towel down next to the straw.
- Fold the paper towel down again, and roll the straw once to the right.
- Repeat 2 more times, and then add a dot of hot glue to the paper towel. This will help secure your first folds.
- Now continue the same steps, looking at the flower from the top.You'll want to fold the top of the paper towel down and in towards the flower, tucking the fold in as you roll the straw to the right.
- Repeat until you reach the end of the paper towel, adding a bit of glue after every 2 or 3 folds. Each "row" of petals should stick out a bit from the previous one.
Step 5: Add the second paper towel piece
- Fold the second paper towel the same way you did the first. Add a dot of hot glue to the same place as well.
- Connect the second paper towel to the bottom of the flower.
- Repeat the exact same folding and gluing steps that you did with the first piece of paper towel.
- Your paper towel rose is complete!
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Notes
Not into flowers? Here are some other fun ways to use paper towel:
Grow a Rainbow Experiment
Paper Worm Experiment
Magic Milk Art Project