How to Craft Wooden Flowers

Flower arrangements brighten any room, but fresh flowers require care and usually don't last long. Make your own floral arrangement with a few wooden flowers that you can paint in colors to match your decor. Brighten a window with a garland of three colorful wooden flowers, or hang them from a hook in a child's room. For a fun, rainy-day project, let your children help you paint the pieces and attach the wires.

4-mm plywood
Scroll saw
Sandpaper
Acrylic paints in chosen colors
Paintbrushes
Wood glue
Thin wire
Drill with 1 1/2 mm bit

Instructions

- 1
  Draw a flower pattern in the size you want your flowers on a piece of paper.
- 2
  Draw a circle that will be the center of the flower on another piece of paper.
- 3
  Trace three flowers and six circles onto the plywood.
- 4
  Remove all of the parts from the plywood using the scroll saw. You will have nine items in all.
- 5
  Sand any rough edges from the cut plywood pieces.
- 6
  Paint the flowers and center circles on all sides in the desired colors, and let all of the pieces dry thoroughly.
- 7
  Glue a center circle in the middle of each flower, one on each side of the flower shape.
- 8
  Drill a hole in the top and bottom of the first two flowers, and drill one hole in the top of the last flower.
- 9
  Insert thin pieces of wire to connect the three flowers.
- 10
  Attach the wire at the top of the first flower to a chain to hang from a hook in the ceiling, a curtain rod or a tree branch.

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