Flowers Made From Plastic Bags
Step 1: Getting Your Materials Together Before you start you will need: - Plastic bags - lots of pretty colours! - Green string - preferably something quite stiff. I used some plastic parcel string. - Scissors - A sewing needle - one with an eye big enough to thread your string through. - A knitting needle - or anything pointy You might also want a pen and some sticky tape. Step 2: Making Petals 1) Take a plastic bag and cut the handles and bottom off. Now you should have a plastic tube. 2) Cut straight along one edge of the tube to make it into a sheet. 3) Now cut your sheet into strips about 4cm thick (that's about 1.5" in old money). 4) Take a strip and fold in one edge by about 2.5cm (1"). Keep folding it over and over so you end up with a flat roll of plastic. 5) Now cut the roll as shown in the diagram below. 6) Unfold the shape you cut out. You should now have a long strip of petal shapes! Repeat steps 4 to 6 with another one of the strips you made in step 3. thi...