She Turns Pipe Cleaners Into The Most Beautiful Flower

If you think colorful pipe cleaners are only for kids' crafts, you'll want to check out this floral DIY. TikToker @flowers..for..flora transforms spring-colored cleaners into textural lily of the valley decor that would look at home in your local interior decor boutique — or on your spring side table. It's the perfect low-budget decor idea to spruce up your home. Each piece holds five fuzzy blooms that are elegant and cheery, perfect for ushering the sunnier months into your home. All it takes to make these little gems is cutting pliers, pipe cleaners, a writing utensil, a lighter, floral tape, and a bit of glue.

If you get in the groove of making these pipe cleaner lilies, you've opened up a lot of fun decor options for your home. These would be excellent used as curtain tiebacks to let in the spring sunshine. Just make the flowers in colors that coordinate with your drapery. If you have small test-tube type vessels that you use for plant propagation, repurpose a couple into mini bud vases for your colorful pipe cleaner creations. They would look so cute styled in a child's room — as long as they're out of knocking-over range.

The key in this DIY is to create repeated shapes and folds with the cleaners that form the flower's front and base, using pastel colors for the petals and green for the stem. You'll bend the blue pipe cleaners into petals and attach them to the green pipe cleaner stems. Then you burn the "stamen" (a white pipe cleaner) into a pointed shape and glue it all together. When you've made five of these blooms with varied-length stems, you'll wrap them with floral tape to connect them. It's an impressive-looking DIY that requires only twists, cutting, and gluing.

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Looped onto clear hooks on the wall, these little flowers would be a whimsical (and photogenic) setting for hosting your next spring party or brunch. Tuck a few into place cards or napkin rings for guests to take home as a thoughtful party favor. Or tie them onto fishing line and suspend them from the ceiling to elevate your spring table with a chic hanging floral centerpiece. 

And of course, these are just begging for wrap-around wire fairy lights to up the cute factor. Even if you just make one of these lily crafts and tape it to your vanity mirror with washi tape, your day will be a little brighter. For more pipe cleaner flowers, check out how to use pipe cleaners and a fork to DIY the cutest dandelion decor.