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How to Make a Summer Time Coffee Filter Flower Mobile

July 14, 2022 by grandkidsadmin Leave a Comment

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Brighten up your summer day by making this coffee filter flower mobile with your grandkids! If you are looking for a way to spend time crafting with your grandkids while adding some color to your home this is the craft for you! These bright coffee filter flowers look beautiful blowing in the summer time breeze. This coffee filter flower mobile will also look good in the nursery of the newest member to your family.

coffee filters dyed and made into a flower mobile

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THIS FLOWER MOBILE IS AN EASY AND FUN WAY TO USE COFFEE FILTERS THAT ARE LAYING AROUND YOUR HOUSE! HERE IS WHAT WE USED TO MAKE IT:

  • coffee filters
  • washable markers
  • string or thin yarn
  • stick
  • buttons
  • basic arts and crafts supplies

Coffee Filter Flower Mobile – Step 1

coffee filters dyed and made into a flower mobile

First decorate the number of coffee filters that you would like flowers with washable markers. 

Coffee Filter Flower Mobile – Step 2

coffee filters dyed and made into a flower mobile

Now take a spray bottle filled with water and spray your coffee filters.

Coffee Filter Flower Mobile – Step 3

coffee filters dyed and made into a flower mobile

Next you are going to take one of your coffee filters and fold it in half like the photo above.

Coffee Filter Flower Mobile – Step 4

coffee filters dyed and made into a flower mobile

After that take the same coffee filter and fold it in half again.

Coffee Filter Flower Mobile – Step 5

coffee filters dyed and made into a flower mobile

Once you have folded your coffee filter trim a scalps edge onto the edge of your coffee filter like in the photo above.

Coffee Filter Flower Mobile – Step 6

coffee filters dyed and made into a flower mobile

Next glue a button in the center of your coffee filter.

Coffee Filter Flower Mobile – Step 7

coffee filters dyed and made into a flower mobile

Now you are going to take another coffee filter and fold it in the same manner as the last one and fringe the edge of it.

Coffee Filter Flower Mobile – Step 8

coffee filters dyed and made into a flower mobile

Then you are going to glue a piece of string in the middle of your fringe edge coffee filter. Make your string however long so that it matches the placement of where you want your flowers to be.

Coffee Filter Flower Mobile – Step 9

coffee filters dyed and made into a flower mobile

Next glue the scalp edged coffee filter on top of the fringe edged one.

Coffee Filter Flower Mobile – Step 10

coffee filters dyed and made into a flower mobile

You are now going to make another flower but this time place the flower in the middle of the same string that you put your previous flower on.

Coffee Filter Flower Mobile – Step 11

coffee filters dyed and made into a flower mobile

This is what one of your first string of flowers should look like.

Coffee Filter Flower Mobile – Step 12

coffee filters dyed and made into a flower mobile

We made one more spring of flowers exactly the same and then another string with just one flower on it. Now you can do this too or you can make as many flowers as you could like.

Coffee Filter Flower Mobile – Step 13

coffee filters dyed and made into a flower mobile

Finally tie on all your strings to a stick and then tie a piece of string to both ends of the stick so that you can hang it up.

coffee filters dyed and made into a flower mobile

You are now finished your beautiful summer coffee filter flower mobile!

PIN IT FOR LATER

coffee filters dyed and made into a flower mobile

Filed Under: Arts and Crafts, Flowers and Landscapes, In the Nursery, Preschool (3-4 year old), Projects By Age, Seasons, Summer Tagged With: coffee filter arts and crafts, coffee filter flower mobile, kids arts and crafts, nursery arts and crafts, Spring and Summer Arts and Crafts

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