Fig. 141.—Paper poppy.
Hollyhocks
of every color can be made of circles of tissue paper five and a half inches in diameter, held at the centre, two circles one inside of the other, and the centre pushed and squeezed together, causing the edges to fold and turn until they resemble the real flower ([Fig. 138]). Smaller circles, crimped by drawing the paper through the partially closed hand ([Fig. 139]), can be made into pinks, and you may have brilliant, nodding poppies in the same way, only these are of smooth, uncrimped circles ([Fig. 140]), placed one inside the other, with a small circle of dark-green paper for the centre, and all three layers pinched together at the extreme centre ([Fig. 141]). Large peonies are similar in construction to some of the flowers you have made, so try to work these out yourself.
Fig. 142.—Paper rose.
A simple way to make
Roses
is to cut tissue paper into strips two and a half inches deep; cut the square-cornered slashes two inches wide, then with knife or scissors blade curl the sharp corners of each separate division, making the slashes into rose petals. Curl the corners of the petals along half of the strip inward, and those along the other half, outward. Fold two or three plaits in the straight bottom edge of each petal; then begin with the half where the petals curl inward and wind the strip around the end of a slender stick. The first petals form the central group and are curled inward; the remainder, curled outward, form the outward circle of petals ([Fig. 142]). Make a generous supply of blossoms and tie them on bushes. Let each bush bear but one kind, that the flowers may appear natural and as if actually growing.
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