Lotus flower

Flowers can be made from any material: thread, fabric, beads, wood, iron ... But the simplest crafts get it out of paper. It happens that you see a bouquet and don’t understand what it is made of, but you come closer and consider a paper composition. Today I want to share with you a fairly simple workshop on making a lotus flower from paper. For work, you need only a few pieces of exactly two-sided colored paper. The simplest option is two colors: necessarily green and another bright (purple, pink, blue). So, sheets of paper must be cut into equal rectangles, each size should be 10 cm by 4 cm. For such a single flower you need 4 green blanks and 8 colored ones.



We take one rectangle and fold it in half in length.



We open and bend inward two corners from one edge.



The same thing needs to be done from the opposite side.



Now bend one long side to the center.



Also need to do with the second half. This is how each blank should look like.



It turns out only 12 stripes: 4 green, 4 purple and 4 blue.



They need to be put one into the other. For example, green into purple, and then into blue. Bottom (in the middle) must be green.



You need to make 4 tabs of 3 blanks. We put them wide sides to each other. And in the middle you should connect them with a small rubber band.



Bend 8 rays (like a snowflake).



And we begin to gradually turn the edges of the paper out. It turns out a beautiful lotus flower.