realistic green leaves made out of pipe cleaners

Easy Pipe Cleaner Blue Daze Flower

Thomas Xu

How to Create Easy Blue Daze Flowers Using Pipe Cleaners?

What is Pipe Cleaner Crafts?

Crafting with pipe cleaners is an enjoyable activity suitable for both adults and children. Whether you're looking for a fun way to spend a rainy afternoon or you simply want to engage in a creative project, crafting adorable items from pipe cleaner kits is a fantastic solo activity.

beautiful blue flowers made of fuzzy pipe cleaners

Among the classic ideas for pipe cleaner crafts are various types of flowers. Once completed, these pipe cleaner flowers can be displayed in a small vase on your desk or hung on your balcony. They are sturdy and long-lasting! In this guide, we'll show you how to make pipe cleaner tulips. Follow these straightforward instructions to create your own pipe cleaner flowers.


What Tools Are Needed for Pipe Cleaner Crafts?

For basic designs, you can create pipe cleaner crafts without any tools. However, as you progress to more intricate models, you'll need some simple tools. First, a glue gun and glue sticks are essential for securely attaching leaves to your flowers. Second, a small pair of scissors will help trim the fuzz, giving your pipe cleaner flowers a more realistic appearance. Lastly, although optional, decorative items like artificial flower stems can enhance the look of your creations.

scissors and glue guns and other tools

Where to Purchase Pipe Cleaners for Crafts?

Pipe cleaners for crafting can be purchased online from various retailers. At Fuzzypipe, we've tested over 100 different brands available online, and our kits offer top-quality pipe cleaners that are easy to twist and shape into charming, fuzzy crafts.

a bunch of fuzzy pipe cleaners of all colors

How to Make Pipe Cleaner Craft Blue Daze Flower?

Here are the easy steps to create pipe cleaner cosmos flowers. You'll need 1 blue pipe cleaner for each flower and some fake flower stems. Depending on how many flowers you would like to make, you can have the corresponding amount of pipe cleaners.

This is what the final product will look like.

blue daze flowers made of fuzzy pipe cleaners

Step 1: take a blue pipe cleaner and make 5 to 6 small circles, you can use a pencil to help you roll the pipe into circles of the same size

wrap a pipe cleaner around a pencil

Step 2: secure the circles and make a small tunnel out of them; if you have any slack, tie the slack onto the long end

twist the pipe cleaner into circles

Step 3: open up the tunnel and expand the small circles like shown in the picture

twist the pipe cleaner into a flower shape

Step 4: twist each circle by 90 degree, you will have all of your pedals ready!

twist the pipe cleaner into five pedals

Step 5: now add a small shiny pearl (I used nail accessories!) to the middle of your flower, it is the flower core

add a pearl decoraton onto the center of flower

Step 6: repeat step 1 to 5 to make as many flowers as you like

make a bunch of similar flowers

Step 7: secure your flower to the fake flower stem, and wrap your stem with green tapes if you have any to make it more realistic

attach the flower onto the stem

Now you have your simple blue daze flower! You can make multiple flowers with different sizes and attach them all to the same stems or different stems

attach many flowers onto the stems

Interested in trying other models?

 

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    This article is written by Thomas Xu.

     

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