Tutorial- How To Make DIY Giant Tissue Paper Flowers

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Learn to make DIY Giant Tissue Paper Flowers in minutes for 50 cents a flower with this easy project tutorial. Create a huge impact at you party or wedding.

Tissue paper flowers are so easy and inexpensive to make and add a huge impact to a room. Today I thought I would share my tutorial for DIY Giant Tissue Paper Flowers. You can make 2 of them in 5-10 minutes and they cost 50 cents each! Can’t beat that.

This is the perfect craft for people who say “Oh I’d love to make that… but I’m not crafty.” Trust me. You are crafty enough to make these.

I shared pictures yesterday in Turtle’s 1st Birthday Party post so today I thought I would share how to make them.

DIY Giant Tissue Paper Flowers Tutorial 2 for $1.00 Make Beautiful Birthday Party Decorations Step 1

What You Need:

  • Tissue paper in your favorite colors. You will need 10 sheets of paper per flower. These packages are $1.00 each at Dollarama and make 2 flowers.
  • Scissors
  • String -OR- yarn -OR- fishing line -OR- pipe cleaner -OR- probably even a twist tie… anything that you can tie around the tissue paper.

DIY Giant Tissue Paper Flowers Tutorial 2 for $1.00 Make Beautiful Birthday Party Decorations Step 2

Step 1: Count out 10 sheets of tissue paper and lay them out stacked on top of each other on a flat surface. The shorter side of the tissue paper should be facing you as pictured.

DIY Giant Tissue Paper Flowers Tutorial 2 for $1.00 Make Beautiful Birthday Party Decorations Step 3

Step 2: Accordion fold your tissue paper making each fold approximately 1 inch wide. Fold all the way to the end of the tissue paper. (The above picture is the halfway point… keep folding until you reach the end of the paper.)

DIY Giant Tissue Paper Flowers Tutorial 2 for $1.00 Make Beautiful Birthday Party Decorations Step 4

Step 3: Tie the string around your tissue paper at the halfway point of the paper. (Most tissue paper will have a crease, if not just eyeball it or if you want to be more exact fold your tissue paper in half to see where your string should go.) Double knot your string.

DIY Giant Tissue Paper Flowers Tutorial 2 for $1.00 Make Beautiful Birthday Party Decorations Step 5

Step 4: Cut your petal shape out of each end of the tissue paper. (I have the same rounded shape cut out of the opposite end of the tissue paper that disappears off of this photo.) You can cut different shapes depending on what kind of flower you want to make. A rounded petal looks like a peony or rose. Round with slits looks like a chrysanthemum. A triangle looks like a dahlia. Rust & Sunshine has a great tutorial with different cuts for different types of flowers. I HIGHLY recommend checking out her site. She also layers different colors of tissue paper and the result is beautiful.

DIY Giant Tissue Paper Flowers Tutorial 2 for $1.00 Make Beautiful Birthday Party Decorations Step 6

Step 5: One sheet at a time start gently separating and fluffing your flower. Work gingerly so as not to tear the tissue paper.

DIY Giant Tissue Paper Flowers Tutorial 2 for $1.00 Make Beautiful Birthday Party Decorations Step 7

Work back and forth from one side to the next.

DIY Giant Tissue Paper Flowers Tutorial 2 for $1.00 Make Beautiful Birthday Party Decorations Step 8

And quickly a flower will start to emerge!

DIY Giant Tissue Paper Flowers Tutorial 2 for $1.00 Make Beautiful Birthday Party Decorations Step 9

Voila! Your finished flower! Wasn’t that easy?

DIY Giant Handmade Tissue Paper Flowers Tutorial 2 for $1.00 Make Beautiful Birthday Party Decorations Final 2

Now decorate with them. Hang them around the room, use as a centerpiece, make a focal wall, or line them up along a pony-wall and around the birthday cake like we did at Turtle’s Birthday party.

Sew Creative Family Enjoying Turtle's First Birthday

Update:

We made these flowers for my sister’s wedding, and the result was beautiful! Check out the arch. 

Learn to make DIY Giant Tissue Paper Flowers in minutes for 50 cents a flower with this easy project tutorial. Create a huge impact at you party or wedding.

 

Questions? Comments? Let me know. I love hearing from you! 

Want to learn how to make Mini Tissue Paper Flowers? Check out this post here:

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50 Comments

  1. love this!!thanks for such a great tutorial, was a little confused when it came to opening up and fluffing the tissue paper!

  2. Sarah Helene says:

    Yes, I, too, recall making similar tissue paper flowers in high school. THANKS for your tutorial with only 5 EASY steps. LOVE the vivid colors of flowers you created. Wish I had a special occasion soon so I could make these FUN decorations. Sarah in Minneapolis

  3. This is beautiful and unique, I can imagine that it will look like that. Thank you for sharing your wonderful DIY idea and it is an inspiration.

  4. Linda Johnston says:

    Do you have instructions for making the smaller paper tissue flowers. I love making the large ones. Im making them for my grandson wedding
    Thank you

    1. Hi Linda,

      Thank you so much for your message! I made these last year for my sister’s wedding as well. I have made them smaller before, but unfortunately I didn’t write down what I did. If memory serves me correctly, I cut the tissue paper into 4 pieces (so in half lengthwise and then in half width wise) and then I only used 5 sheets of paper instead of ten. I hope that helps! I’d love to see pictures!

      Best Wishes,

      Crystal

    2. Sonja Bailey says:

      I made these from Tissues when I was in the hospital having knee surgery when I was 13…many many years ago

      however this size is more fun, could even cut the tissue paper in half to get a variation of sizes thanks for bringing back memories of 50 years ago

  5. I made these out of toilet paper and Kleenex back in the 70’s in girl scouts.

  6. Sonja Bailey says:

    I made these from Tissues when I was in the hospital having knee surgery when I was 13…many many years ago

    however this size is more fun, could even cut the tissue paper in half to get a variation of sizes thanks for bringing back memories of 50 years ago

  7. Love this! I am always looking for ideas for craft time at a nursing home where I volunteer. I wonder what you and others have used to affix these once made? Do you just tie with string? Add clips? Has anyone put them on bamboo stakes for bouquet?

    1. Hi Bobbi!

      Thank you for visiting. I’ve always tied the flowers to whatever I’m attaching them using the string that I tied around the tissue paper. Hope that helps!

      Best Wishes,

      Crystal

  8. Hi…I’m throwing a 90th birthday party for my mother=in=law in a couple weeks. I’ve been looking for something cheap to do for the table decorations. It’s an afternoon luncheon at a country club. Real flower arrangements seem too expensive and impractical. I’m not crafty AT ALL, but these seem like something I could make. About how big are they when they’re finished? I’m thinking of lining them up in the middle of the long tables that I’ve requested to be set up. Would 6 be enough on each table or 8, do you know? I might have to make 20 or more. The colors of the party are purple, pink, and, maybe, silver. So, I can use a variety of shades from those colors.. Thanks for the idea!

    1. Hi Pamela,

      Oh that would be so pretty. They are great for decorating with. I love doing the flowers in variegating colors too for a different effect. 🙂 The flowers I’d say are approximately 12 inches across. You can also cut your tissue paper into smaller pieces and use less layers to make smaller flowers. I’d love to see pictures of how they turn out!

      Best Wishes,

      Crystal

    2. Thank you, Crystal, for getting back with me. I, also, looked at the other tutorial you have on here and found that you can make them with different colors in the same bow. I might try that, as well. Thanks for letting me know how big they are…that helps me figure out how many I need. I’ll send you a picture from the party.
      Thanks, again…Pamela

    3. Hi again, Crystal. I was wondering….although I love how big the flowers are, they’re too big for our table. Would you suggest just cutting the tissue paper in half to get 6 inch flowers, instead of 12 inch? On the other tutorial she cuts squares but wouldn’t that, possibly, be too small? I just saw today at Joanne’s Fabric Store that Martha Stewart has packages of these all made up so you can just unfold them. She has a very cute one with small brown boxes that you put the flower on top of…..and tissue paper green leaves. I was tempted to buy them cause they were so cute, but I’m continuing with this project. Thanks! Pamela

    4. Hi Pamela,

      Yes you can definitely cut the tissue paper in half for smaller flowers. I’ve done it the way you suggested as well as square and both are lovely, just different sizes. When I do smaller ones I usually use less pieces of tissue paper too. The Martha Stewart ones are lovely, but trust me you can make a ton of handmade ones for the price of one of the Martha Stewart ones!

      Best Wishes,

      Crystal

  9. Kim Tanti says:

    My daughter and I make these to go in a gift bag instead of just jamming in tissue paper. People are always in aw which suprises me since I started making these years agoe. Back in the 70 they were a big part of weddings and showers with kleenex.

  10. Love these! Been thinking of making some to accessorize my daughters’ room. I love how pretty they looked at you sister’s wedding.

  11. caren aluoch says:

    Hellow from kenya nairobi,I love flowers and this is the best method ever coz the materials are readily available ,it’s not complicated either thank you so much.

  12. thanks so much for sharing your ideas. Got to make some of these flowers soon.
    Your kid’s pictures are adorable but please tell me that you didn’t really name them Bean and Turtle.

    1. Ha ha! Great question Sana! Nope their names aren’t Bean and Turtle. That’s what I call them on here to give them a bit of anonymity. Thank you so much for visiting and for taking the time to comment.

      Best Wishes,

      Crystal