Fig. 133.—Fold each petal through centre.
Sunflowers
can be fashioned rapidly by cutting orange-colored tissue paper into strips twenty-five inches long and six inches wide, pointing the strips into petals three inches deep and two and a half inches wide at the base ([Fig. 132]), ten petals to each strip; then creasing each petal lengthwise through its centre to give stiffness ([Fig. 133]), and gathering each strip separately along its straight edge with needle and thread ([Fig. 134]); in this way forming the two strips into two pointed circles ([Fig. 135]). These circles, together with a brown centre, make one sunflower.
| Fig. 134.—Gather the strip of petals. | Fig. 135.—One gathered circle of sunflower petals. | Fig. 136.—Sunflower centre. | Fig. 137.—Paper sunflower growing on broom-stick. |
Cut a strip of brown tissue paper nine inches long and two inches wide for the centre, gather the paper tightly along one lengthwise edge and tie it close up under and against the head of a slender nail ([Fig. 136]). Around the nail under the brown centre, slide on first one, then the other, circle of gathered yellow petals, taking care to have the petal points of the lower circle lie between and not over those of the top circle. Finish by driving the nail which runs through the sunflower, into one side of a stick or broom-handle, with the lower end sharpened ([Fig. 137]).
| Fig. 138.—Paper hollyhock tied on stick. | Fig. 139.—Paper crimped for pinks. | Fig. 140.—Paper disk for making poppy. |
