Autumn is in the air around many parts of the United States. Leaves are falling, air is turning cooler, and we are decorating our homes for the season change and upcoming holidays.

Get your children in on the fun of decorating by making bright centerpieces for your family dinner table or to place strategically around your home to add some autumn color to the mix.

Offered by DLTK-Holidays.com, Autumn Tissue Flowers & Vase is an easy project that the whole family can participate in. What’s best about this project, by changing the color of the tissue paper used, you can make this for any event or holiday coming up.

Autumn Tissue Paper Flowers and Juice Jar Vase

Include directions for both flowers and vase. There are 4 different types of flowers you can make.

Materials for the Vase:

• Juice jar (750ml)
• Paper Mache paste (1 part flour to 5 parts water… boil about 3 minutes and let cool)
• Stripes of white paper
• Paint or markers to decorate (we used orange paint for ours)

Materials for one Flower:

• Tissue paper (orange, red, yellow, or brown – combination of fall colors; white, yellow for center)
• Drinking straw
• Cotton ball
• Scissors
• Scotch tape (or floral tape)

Directions for Vase:

• Paper Mache the jar (cover with 2 layers newspaper with one layer white paper over top of that) or just cover with 3 layers of white paper
• Let dry (takes about a day for the paper mache to dry)
• Decorate the jar with paint or markers. We painted ours orange.

Directions for Flowers:

• Cut a square of tissue paper about 2” by 2”
• Put a small piece of cotton (about 1/4 of a cotton ball) in the center.
• Scrunch the cotton filled tissue paper around the end of the straw and wrap a piece of scotch tape around it
• Put 4 or 5 petals around the cotton filled tissue paper. Tape them on.
• Continue adding rows of petals until you have a nice full flower. You’ll need at least 4 rows of them.
• Fluff the petals out a bit to shape your flower.
• OPTIONAL: spritz a bit of perfume on your flower to scent it.

FYI: Flower petal templates are offered on the site this craft originated from, DLTK-Holidays.com.

This project is brought to you by DLTK-Holidays.com.

At Pajama Mommy, we strive to find fun and entertaining crafts that the whole family will love and have fun participating in. As a parent, please use your judgment to choose activities that you believe are safe for your child and family.