First, let’s prepare the pot for our beautiful flower! Start by using a paint marker to personalize your flower pot. Get creative! Set aside for at least 5 minutes to ensure your artwork is dry.

Now gather the tissue paper, scissors, and at least a 12-inch ruler.

Prepare the tissue paper for your flowers by cutting it into 5-inch x 6 ½ inch sections. Stack and set aside.

Take 6 of the 5 x 6.5-inch pieces of tissue paper and stack and straighten them evenly.

Next, fold the layered tissue paper accordion style, folding it back and forth until you reach the end of the
paper.

Holding the folded stack horizontally, staple the center of the folded paper vertically.

With a pair of scissors, cut the corners of the ends of your folded paper diagonally on each corner.

Once the corners are cut, twist a green pipe cleaner around the center, about where you stapled the folded paper. Loop and twist the pipe cleaner and secure it below so that it will act as the stem of your flower.

After the pipe cleaner is secured, it’s time to make your flower pop! Gently, peel the top layer of the tissue paper towards the center of the flower. Alternate this step, back and forth on each side of the flower, until all of the layers of tissue paper have been separated and fluffed.

You can stop at this point and use the tissue paper flowers to decorate with or give them a stem and "plant" them in a clay pot!

Next, it’s time to finish the stem for your flower. Start by twisting the green pipe cleaner that is attached to your flower around a small wooden skewer or popsicle stick. Add another pipe cleaner and repeat the process until you reach the end of the stick. Set aside. 

Next, crumble a piece of green tissue paper and use it to fill the bottom of the pot.

Place your previously made flower into the center of the pot, piercing the stem/stick into tissue paper until secure and the flower doesn’t wobble.

Your tissue paper flower and pot are complete!