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Patriotic Craft

This patriotic craft will help make your 4th of July celebration complete! This craft is not only visually pleasing, it’s easy too!

Materials

• Basket coffee filters
• Pipe cleaners (red, white, blue, gold and/or silver)
• Red and blue watercolor paint
• Paintbrush
• Scissors
• 2 pieces of paper towel or a kitchen towel
• Paper plate
• Newspaper

Instructions

1. Cover your workspace with newspaper.
2. Place one of the coffee filters onto the paper place and flatten it out.
3. Paint the coffee filter with the watercolor paint.
4. Paint some areas solid red, some solid blue and others a combination of blue and red, leaving some areas unpainted.
5. Move the coffee filter to the towel and lay flat to dry.
6. Repeat with the second coffee filter.
7. Leaving the center of the filter intact, cut the coffee filter in strips, working your way around the circle.
8. Cut a 1.5” piece off of one end of a pipe cleaner and set it aside.
9. Take the longer piece of pipe cleaner and poke it through the center of the coffee filter. There should be about 2” of pipe cleaner poked through.
10. Turn the entire flower upside down and grasp the filter with your fingers.
11. Gather the filter around the pipe cleaner and secure it by wrapping the extra piece of pipe cleaner that you cut off earlier around it.
12. Twist the pipe cleaner around the part you are holding and turn the flower back upright.
13. Manipulate the flower with your finger until the strips are spread out and it looks the way you want it to.

Craft used with permission from CraftBits.com.

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