Creating Simple Lavender Flower Bouquet with Pipe Cleaners

What is Pipe Cleaner Crafting?

Pipe cleaner crafting is an enjoyable pastime for both adults and children. If you're stuck indoors on a rainy day or feeling inspired to craft something charming, making delightful items from pipe cleaner kits is a wonderful solo activity.

One popular idea for pipe cleaner art involves making many types of flowers. Once finished, these pipe cleaner flower bouquet can be placed in a small vase on your desk or hung on your balcony. They are robust and designed to last! This tutorial will guide you through creating pipe cleaner lavender flower bouquet. Follow these easy steps to make your own pipe cleaner flower bouquet.

Tools Required for Pipe Cleaner Crafts

For simple designs, you can create pipe cleaner crafts without any tools. However, as you tackle more detailed models, a few basic tools will be necessary. First, you'll need a glue gun and glue sticks to firmly attach the leaves to your flower bouquet. Second, a small pair of scissors will help trim the fuzz, making your pipe cleaner flowers appear more realistic. Lastly, though optional, adding decorative elements like artificial flower stems can enhance the appearance of your crafts.

Where to Find Pipe Cleaners for Crafting

You can purchase pipe cleaners for crafting from numerous online retailers. At Fuzzypipe, we've evaluated over 100 different brands available online, and our kits offer the highest quality pipe cleaners that are easy to twist and shape into adorable, fuzzy crafts.

Step-by-Step Guide

Here are the straightforward steps to make pipe cleaner cosmos flower bouquet. You'll need about 3 purple, 2 pink, 2 white, 2 green pipe cleaners, and a fake flower stem for each lavender flower you will be making.

Step 1.1: take a purple 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

Step 1.2: secure the circles and make a small tunnel out of them; if you have any slack, cut them with a scissor and leave only a little slack on both ends

Step 1.3: open up the tunnel and expand the small circles like shown in the picture

Step 1.4: twist each circle by 90 degree, you will have a pedal ready!

Step 1.5: for each lavender stem, you want to make one pedal that comes with an additional circle to place on the top of your stem

Step 1.6: repeat step 1 to 5 to make as many pedals as you like, You can use different colors (purple, pink or white)

Step 2.1: now secure your pedals onto the fake flower stem, you can mix and match the color of your pedals to make it more diverse

Step 2.2: now take a green pipe cleaner, fold it into leaves, about the same length of the stem itself. You can make two of them for each stem

Now you have your simple lavender flower! You can make multiple flower into a pipe cleaner flower  bouquet with different sizes and attach them all to the same stems or different stems

Interested in trying other models?

Check out other pipe cleaner craft ideas:

• 12 Simple Pipe Cleaner Crafts With Tutorials for Everyone
• How to Make Cosmos Flowers with Pipe Cleaners?
• 7 Pipe Cleaner Animal Craft ideas For Adults and Kids
• Easy Pipe Cleaner Blue Daze Flower Tutorials
• 16 Awesome Pipe Cleaner Crafts For Adults
• How To Make a Watermelon Plushie with Pipe Cleaners

Now that you have seen what’s possible from simple pipe cleaners, you are ready for our FuzzyPipe pipe cleaner kits! Our team sources the best pipe cleaners and spend each week designing cute collectible pipe cleaner arts.

This article is written by Thomas Xu.