Mothers Day Paper Flower – Paper Peony Craft

We’ll show you how to make a Mother’s Day Paper Flower with a wonderful surprise inside. If you want to make a craft to surprise your mom, this paper peony will be the perfect choice.

Follow the step-by-step instructions and you’ll soon have the best Mother’s Day gift you can think of.

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We love exploring and making different Mother’s Day crafts for kids (check out our Rocket Mother’s Day Craft and make our Twist and Pop Mother’s Day Cards).

We are happy to guide you through this craft process. Here is a beautiful surprise peony!

Yes, it contains a hidden photo or message inside.

We are crazy about peonies.

They are large and elegant with thick flower leaves, plus a very pleasant scent.

We call them flower balls and they are definitely one of our favorite flowers.

How about making a gift for your mom and letting her know that you love her deeply and sincerely?

How to make paper flowers for Mother’s Day

What you need:

• light red cardboard
• red paper
• green paper
• brown cardboard
• glue
• drag
• hot glue (+hot glue gun)
• pencil
• compass bow
• round hole punching machine
• photo of you smiling or being silly (you can also make this flower without the picture inside if you want, but the picture is what makes this peony a surprise peony)
• black pencil
• Straw

Step by step guide

Flower

Take a compass and draw three circles on the light red cardboard.

The diameters of the circles should be 8.6 cm, 7.6 cm and 5.6 cm.

Cut out the circles.

Photo

Take a photo and punch in your smiley or silly face. The diameter of the hole punch should be 3.8 cm.

If you don’t have a circle hole punch this size, use a compass to create a circle on the photo, then cut that circle out.

If you don’t want to use a photo, punch out a light red circle instead. But to turn this peony into a surprise peony, you’ll need a photo.

The petals

Punch out twenty-five red circles. Again, if you don’t have a circle hole punch this size, make the circles with a compass, then cut them out.

Fold the circles as shown. Make sure you do not fold them in half but rather fold them less.

Apply a little glue to the smaller (folded) parts of the circles. Take the largest light red circle and start gluing these red circles to it.

You should glue eight small red circles to the largest light red circle as shown.

Press the circles inwards to get a closed flower as shown in the picture.

Repeat this step with the remaining two light red circles. Attach seven red circles to the larger light red circle, then attach six circles to the smaller light red circle.

Then close them. Now we are left with four red circles on the table.

Glue these four red circles around the photo circle (or glue them around the light red circle if you decide not to use a photo).

Here are the four flower parts we have created so far.

Continue gluing them together. That’s how you form the flower.

Beautiful, right? Now close the flower and set it aside.

Trunk

Take the green paper and cut it into four long strips about 1 cm wide.

Apply a small amount of glue to the first strip.

Start wrapping this strip of tape around the straw.

When you finish the first strip, continue with the second strip.

We have prepared the trunk.

Take the remaining two green strips and wrap them around the ends of the stem.

Done! Now let’s move on to the leaves.

The leaves

On green paper, draw some peony leaves. Make two branches with three leaves on each branch.

Use scissors to cut off the leaves.

Now take a leafy branch and draw it twice more on the green paper.

Draw smaller leaves inside larger leaves.

Cut off branches with small leaves.

Now let’s see. You will have two larger branches with leaves and two smaller branches.

Glue small branches with leaves on top of larger branches.

Pedestal

Use a circle punch to punch a circle into the brown cardboard.

If you don’t have a 1.5 inch hole punch, use a circular compass to form a circle and cut it out.

These are all the parts we need to start assembling the flower now.

First, we use hot glue to stick the flower stem to the back of the flower.

After the glue dries, we continue to glue the branches with leaves on the tree trunk.

Then we apply some glue to the bottom of the stem and attach it to the brown circle. Done!

Now open the flower and write a short message inside like “I love you mom” or “You are the best mom” or “Thank you for everything mom”.

This step is optional.

You don’t have to write anything inside the flower if you don’t want to.

The last thing to do is close the petals.

Your Mother’s Day paper flower is done!

We have finished assembling the peony tree! Yaay!

Now we wait for mom to come home and give her these surprise peonies.

Aren’t they adorable? We love them! We hope you love them too!

Happy Mother’s Day!

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