Paper Crafts
How to Make Paper Tulip Step by Step Instructions Easy Tutorial
The large, bright-colored (for example red, white, pink, or even yellow), spring-blooming flowers are indeed a treat to the eyes. Yes, I’m talking about the beautiful tulips. Flowers, no matter of what size, shape, color, etc, in themselves are a definition of delicacy and beauty. To inculcate these qualities in our art and craft, one MUST try making these pretty entities with paper. So let us know how to make paper tulips step by step using an easy tutorial.
How to Make A Paper Tulip
Materials Required:
- A4 sized sheet(green)
- A pair of scissors
- Pencil
- Glue
- Craft paper of the color of the flower
Initiation:
1. Take the craft paper and fold it twice to get four equal parts. Fold it further diagonally. Now open the paper back into its original form. Make a small cut on the bottom crease.
Creases:
2. Make small cuts of the same dimension on the other two sides (other than the top side) using a pair of scissors.
3. The paper is now cut from three adjacent sides.
4. Now apply glue to the two opposite portions of the bottom-most slit.
5. Hold the sides using your fingers.
Folding of the sheet to 3D form:
6. Folding the portions perpendicularly, overlap one of them over the other. Press it gently so that they stick to each other properly.
7. Repeat the same folds to all the other parts, taking two adjacent ones at a time.
8. Stick them carefully. Make sure you maintain the symmetry while overlapping.
9. Press the petals from the inner portion as well.
Making of the leaves:
10. Now, take the green-colored A4-sized sheet. We will be using only the one-forth portion of the sheet. Now fold the part twice in the horizontal axis.
11. The piece will be divided into 4 equal parts. Now fold it again.
12. Draw the shape of half of a leaf throughout the whole length. Make it longer to make it look realistic, i.e., that of an actual tulip.
13. Cut the shape evenly using a pair of scissors.
14. Remove the excess portion of the green paper after you get the cut-out.
15. Open it. You’ll see two leaves of the same size have been cut.
16. Now we will be using the left three-fourth of the green A4-sized sheet we just used.
17. Fold the piece horizontally upwards, such that it attains a circular surface.
Making of the stem:
18. Make small cuts with the help of scissors. Cover all the inner layers formed due to the folding.
19. Press each of them outwards in all four directions so much that the surface becomes almost flat for ease in sticking.
20. Paste the stick on the bottom of the tulip.
21. Now bring in the leaves of the flower.
22-23. Fold the leaves inwards around the stick.
Your Tulip is Ready!
Your paper tulips are absolutely ready! Flaunt these crafty masterpieces of yours in the best way possible. Add advantage to it by making more tulips of different colors and making a handmade bouquet of beautiful paper tulips. Decorate them according to the place of their usage and keep adding beauty to it in your own way.
Specialty About Tulips:
- The flower consists of three petals and three sepals.
- Since the sepals look exactly the same as their petals. They appear to be 6 petals altogether.
- The variety of tulips touches heights. There are about 3000 different varieties of tulips alone in the wide-ranged kingdom of flowering plants.
- As early as in the seventeenth century, tulips were available in the market at a very expensive price, so much that it almost equaled the wage of a working-class man.
- The Netherlands is the home to the maximum number of tulip plantations in the whole world. Crediting the amount, this country is also the largest exporter of tulip bulbs.
- Tulips gain their names originate from the word ‘dulband’ meaning a turban.
