Easy! How to Make Pipe Cleaner Flowers
Let’s make pipe cleaner flowers today! This easy flower craft is so easy we can make a full bouquet of flowers with pipe cleaners. Kids of all ages will love this simple pipe cleaner craft and they will be making colorful and unique flowers in no time.
Easy Pipe Cleaner Flowers Craft
Pipe cleaner crafts don’t require much clean up and work well for younger kids and older kids too while playing with development of fine motor skills. Grab a bunch of colorful pipe cleaners and let’s make some pretty flowers!
Related: Make a homemade card using pipe cleaners as a beautiful flower arrangement
We love finding easy things to make with pipe cleaners. Chenille stems are one of my favorite crafting items because it is almost mesmerizing to work with them and see what they can become.
Pipe cleaners are called pipe cleaners because they were originally used to clean pipes…makes sense! Today we use them for crafting which sounds like much more fun. They come in a million colors and also can be found under the name chenille stem or fuzzy sticks.
-History of Pipe Cleaners
Flowers Made with Pipe Cleaners
And pipe cleaners are one of the easiest ways to make flowers which makes this a perfect kids craft for even the youngest kids, but older kids and adults will want to make pipe cleaner flowers too.
Preschool CraftTip: If you are doing pipe cleaner crafts with younger kids who might get stuck with the end of the pipe cleaner, then add a drop of hot glue to cover the sharp metal end with a little bit of hot glue and let cool to protect little finger tips.
And then pipe cleaner flowers turn into pipe cleaner bouquets. It is all good. The only thing that will limit your bouquet-making-party is time and pipe cleaners!
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How to Make Flowers Out of Pipe Cleaners
Craft Supplies Needed to Make Pipe Cleaner Flower Bouquets
- Colorful Pipe Cleaners – different colors for flower petals and buds: yellow pipe cleaners, red pipe cleaners, orange pipe cleaners, purple pipe cleaners and white pipe cleaners are our favorite
- Green Pipe Cleaners – for stems: a green pipe cleaner works great but we have also used brown pipe cleaners
- Container for your Bouquet – or you can create a pipe cleaner flower pot
- (Optional) hot glue gun with glue stick or a little glue
Instructions for Pipe Cleaner Flowers Craft
Watch Our Short Tutorial Video on How to Make Pipe Cleaner Flowers
Step 1 – Make Swirls, Loops and Circles with Pipe Cleaners
To make the colorful flowers, we swirled some of the cleaners into a circle shape. The first swirl will be the center of each flower and you can build out from there.
When you let go of the wire, and pull lightly on the center of it (to make a cone-like shape) it looks a lot like an orchid (or maybe a tulip). That was my daughters favorite type to create.
We also made loops and attached the loops together to the middle of the flower creating the more traditional-looking flower shape. This was a bit more difficult for my four year old to create, but she tried hard!
Step 2 – Add Stems with Chenille Stems {Giggle}
When the swirls and flowers were finished, we added stems to create our bouquets with green and brown pipe cleaners.
(Optional) Step 3 – Make a Pipe Cleaner Flower Pot
The easiest way I have found to make a pipe cleaner flower pot for your bouquet is to use something around the house as a template. If you find a small clay pot, pill bottle or narrow glass from the kitchen that is the size that would work, then grab some flower pot colored pipe cleaners.
Wind the pipe cleaners around the item you chose until you have a shape you like, then remove that item and adjust the pipe cleaners as needed.
Make Flowers with Pipe Cleaners
This incredibly easy pipe cleaner craft is great for kids of all ages. Kids can make easy pipe cleaner flowers out of colorful chenille stems and then arrange them into a bouquet to keep or give.
Materials
- Colorful Pipe Cleaners for flowers – yellow pipe cleaners, red pipe cleaners, orange pipe cleaners, purple pipe cleaners and white pipe cleaners are our favorite
- Green or Brown Pipe Cleaners for stems
Tools
- (Optional) Container for your Bouquet
- (Optional) hot glue gun with glue stick or a little glue
Instructions
- Choose a colorful pipe cleaner and then make swirls, loops and circles to mimic a flower shape.
- Add a green or brown stem pipe cleaner
- Repeat until you have a bunch of pipe cleaner flowers
- Add them to a container to hold the flower bouquet or make a container out of pipe cleaners
Pipe Cleaner Flower Bouquets as Kid-Made Gifts
These would make a great gift for Grandma! Or a in-class made gift for mom. Or a fun move-in gift for a new neighbor…there are so many ways to give pipe cleaner flower bouquets as gifts!
These handmade flowers are so colorful and bright and delightfully easy to make.
More Flower Crafts from Kids Activities Blog
For more fun and colorful flower making kids activities, we hope you enjoy some of these creative ideas for simple crafts:
- How to make tissue paper flowers – see picture above
- How to make cupcake liner flowers
- How to make plastic bag flowers
- How to make egg carton flowers
- Easy flower painting for kids
- Make fingerprint art flowers
- Make a button flower craft with felt
- Make an easy flower drawing with this simple how to draw a flower tutorial
- Make an easy sunflower drawing with this simple how to draw a sunflower tutorial
- How to make ribbon flowers
- Use this flower template to make your own paper flowers
- Or print our spring flowers coloring pages
- We have so many ways so you know how to make a tulip!
- How about making some edible flowers? Yum!
- And check out the best flower coloring pages on the internet…woot! woot!
Did your kids love making pipe cleaner flowers and pipe cleaner flower bouquets?What is their favorite pipe cleaner craft?
I just love the photo of your daughter here – she looks so proud of her creations!
I just love pipe cleaner flowers. My only thing is I was looking for ones my Sunday School class can do mostly by themselves. In this video, it looks like adult is doing all the work so I still need to determine if kindergartners have the finger dexterity to do this or not. I may try a variation. Such a simple fun way to help kids brighten someone’s day!