Customer Reviews

Tissue Paper Flowers Good Enough to Fool Bees

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Klutz Press has done it again with another wonderful book. The flowers are easy to make and look great. Our home was soon blooming with flowers. The only thing you need extra is a pair of scissors and you're ready to go. I'm going to buy a copy for a friend in the hospital for pre-term labor. It'll be a great way to pass the time and brighten up her room.

I LOVE THIS BOOK!
I spent a whole weekend off making flower after flower and I still want to make more. The instructions are super-clear, easy & fun, and the book supplies plenty of tissue and pipe cleaners. It says on the back cover "This is not a book - it's a bouquet of flowers in flattened form" (or something like that *chuckle*) and they weren't kidding! Buy it and HAVE fun - you won't be disappointed!
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Get this along with Shrinky Dinks, for any teen you know or anyone turning 40!
ha! this book is worth the money ONLY IF:
you can't understand the directions on ANYTHING!
MAINLY DUE TO:
you don't like to read directions and only look at pictures.
AND
really hate shopping for supplies to any art project
AND
are just too lazy and dont know where to start anyway when trying to have good rainy indoor fun.
Now I am already visualizing "no postive feedback" next to my review, so I will add,
this is very easy and inspiring and within 30 seconds figured this out and made a neat flower with no pain that made us want to make two hours worth of "ooh and awwwsss" flowers which we strung from everything in our house and led us to envision a world of paper flowers that never die we could give to everyoen we know to also inspire them. There are really complicated flowers in the book but we love the werid "don't bother cutting it out right see what happens" flowers the most.

IN fact, we are gettign a pile of plain white tissue and water coloring them tye dye this weekend to make massive giant huge flowers ! I am planning on sending this to every teen-angst person I know! This is my personal statement on "when your stressed make a flower!"
Sometimes life really can be that simple!

it was pretty easy to make these flowers and i think it was a great deal for this kit to include the stencils, stems, AND all this paper! the flowers turn out great and there are clear instructions 4 every flower. the only problem is that it takes a lot of cutting and the tissue is so delicate that it easily tears. also, it gets very messy w/all the scraps of paper & stencils. other than that, like i said, it turns out great.

The book itself is very appealing and it was great to get all the things we needed to get started. I work with Spanish speaking kids who do not know English and the diagrams and all are so clear that after a brief explaination they were able to create bunches of flowers on their own. What fun!

This is the absolute, most adorable, creative guide to making paper flowers. I was looking for a book on making paper flowers, but as an adult, I was afraid this book was only for kids. Boy was I wrong. The instructions are simple and easy to follow, yet the finished product looks like you are a creative genius. I highly recommend this book for adults as well as children. It would make a wonderful gift for a daughter, grandaughter, wife, mother, sister, or anyone whose face you'd like to see a big smile on!

If you want to make paper flowers this is the book to get. I had a hankerin' to make some paper flowers and so bought this book, but was not prepared for how much fun it would be. I didn't realise it had everything in it that you need, i.e. tissue paper and pipe cleaners. You would think they'd give you enough to make just a couple but NO! There are 75 sheets of tissue in every color you can imagine and 40 pipe cleaners for stems. My house is overflowing with flowers!! This is not just a book for children, but adults too and I think it would be an especially wonderful gift for a teenage girl. The finished flowers look exactly like the ones in the book and so realistic. And they are so simple! You need to get this book - you won't be disappointed and it is money well spent.

Forget about kids--get this for yourself. I bought it a few days ago, and ever since it showed up, I've been making flowers like a fiend. It's ridiculously easy, and as always with klutz books, pretty much everything you need is included. You supply scissors; if you've got the ones with wavy or crinkly edges, you'll have a few more options. I started with the tissue paper at the back of the book, but since then have been experimenting with all sorts of papers from around the house--old paper bags make surprisingly gorgeous flowers. Instructions for simple pompoms get you started, after which you can whip through everything from sweetpeas and delphiniums to lilies and irises. Templates for the petal shapes are at the back of the book, but freehand shapes are fun too, and work especially well if you've got those previously mentioned wavy scissors. I'm decorating several easter baskets with the garlands I've made, and the garlands can be taken off and easily made into flowery crowns for little princesses. If you want to let the kids share in the fun, watch the pipe cleaner ends--they can really be sharp! And you should tear the tissue sheets out of the book- it takes a pretty firm hand to get them out cleanly. Highly recommended as a gift for girls ages 8 through 12 and an activity for ages 6 and up ; while boys will have fun too, the book looks pretty "girly" at first glance, so it might not be the most exciting thing to unwrap.

I find that Klutz books are generally the best for learning any new craft. I wasn't even convinced that I wanted to make tissue paper flowers until I saw this book. The cover says that the flowers are "good enough to fool bees." This is only a slight exaggeration. My daffodils and carnations were remarkably realistic and very easy. My six-year-old was able to make pom pom flowers and carnations. After showing her the basics, I came back to the table to find she had made a vase full on her own. The book provides templates, paper, pipe cleaners (for stems), and beautiful pictures that show myriad variations of each bloom. In addition, the book encourages creativity and invented flowers and gives some ideas for these as well. As an adult, I loved using this book and plan to bring it in to the craft class I run with teens. It's a winner!