December is the month of festivity for us and more for our Christian brothers and sisters, for it is the time to celebrate Christmas. The month also brings with it a break from studies and exam. So, you enjoy the cold weather more as with it arrives the winter vacation.

So to cherish the festivity of the occasion, let me share with you how to make a simple, yet gorgeous, paper flowers wreath in green colour. You can make multi-coloured flowers, if you want.

Things you need:

1. Cardboard piece (I used cardboard from a leftover carton)

2. Green papers (three, A-4 sized papers)

3. Scissors

4. Glue

5. Compass or any bowl to make a perfect circle

Directions:

1. Put a bowl on the cardboard, or with the help of compass, draw a circle on the cardboard according to the size of wreath you want, then, carefully cut it out, as in picture 2.

2. Leaving one inch inside, draw another circle and cut the ring out, see picture 3.

3. You can wrap the cardboard ring with either paper or ribbon, but this is optional. I used a green ribbon, picture 4.

4. To make the flowers; cut 1.5 inches width of circles from green paper; you can use compass or any small bowl to make a perfect circle. To make a single flower, three paper circles will be needed, picture 5.

5. Two-fold the circle into halves and then again two-fold the half, pictures 6 and 7.

6. Open the halves and paste glue inside the middle crease, two fold it again; picture 8.

7. Put glue on the top middle crease of these halves and paste them on one another, fold them again and leave them to dry, picture 9 and 10.

Note: You don’t have to paste the entire half of paper, just the middle crease.

1. Make 13 to 14 such folded flowers in the same way if your wreath size is 7-inches like mine.

2. The folded halves are actually petals of a flower, so when they are dry, open the petals, picture 11.

3. When all the flowers are open, cut tiny circles (dots) of any colours as well, picture 12.

4. Carefully paste the flowers around the ring we made earlier, picture 13.

5. Paste the tiny colourful paper dots on top of each flower, picture 14.

6. You can give detail by pasting leaves of different colours around the wreath, and make a loop from any ribbon or string, paste it behind the wreath, picture 15.

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Published in Dawn, Young World, December 11th, 2021