Hair Extensions Forum

Originally posted on Heavenly Hair by quietsleeper.

All righty, so we're going to make foam flowers the easy way .... first of all you need foam ... hairbands ... mini rubber bands ... paper ... pencil ... aaaaand scissors



I find making a template for the flowers best, that way I can draw round and cut out lots of foam shapes to start with .... like this ....







You need two of these for each flower



The next thing I do is cut out thin strips of foam to make my stamen - the thinner the strip the 'curvier' it seems to get.



Then I grab around 4-5 stamen and the inner foam part of the flower ....



I fold it all over the hairband pulling all the petals together like this ....



Then I wrap a mini rubber band round the base of the petals tightly



Tease out the petals making a flowery shape ... this is just to make sure there's no petals snagged or folded badly



Do the same again with your next 'layer' of petals





Tease out the petals until you're happy with how your flower looks



..... aaand then taadaa .... make loads and impress your friends, neighbours, work collegues, pets etc


HAPPY MAKING!!!!!!

thank you for this!

Beautiful colors and very clear instructions.
Good job on the tute!
These would look just perfect with a head full of dreads.

excellent tutorial and wonderful finished product!

I can't wait to make some of these! They look like fun and turn out really vibrant and blooming!! Thanks so much for posting this!

omigawsh! awesome tutorial! those flowers came out amazing! im going to try some of my own. thank u for the great tutorial!

Thank you for this tut! Awesome job!

This is soooo cute! Thank you for this!

Wow! The tut makes these look so simple to make and supercute! Gotta try sometime

I always look at foam, wanting to buy it but never knowing what to make with it - now I know. Thanks!

Those are soooo pretty! Thanx for the tutorial!

aww! these are so cute! i think ill try it! thank you for the tute.

I might actually start making these again xD
*OFF TO BUY HAIR TIES*

i made my first one! its a bit small, but i really like it! and its red and white! thank you for the tutorial, again!

Wow thats well cool! to Hobby craft this weekend i think!

Anybody got any tips on how to fold the paper for the template? I can't exactly figure it out My templates are 8 petal versions

This is amazing, I can't wait to make some

thats great! i still have foam left from decorating my plugbox and ill give this a try

these are cute!

Okay im having some problems, i can get either 5 or 8 petals but no 6 xD

How did you fold your template?

Shala wrote:Okay im having some problems, i can get either 5 or 8 petals but no 6 xD

How did you fold your template?

That has ALWAYS been my weakness >_<

Yea and ic ant find any folding tutorials about it either.. hahaha

It looks like a square folded in half, then folded into thirds, and cut the petals away from the folded point.

These are very cute. I need to go scavenge in my basement craft area for some foam. x3