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How to Make a Paper Lily

Introduction: How to Make a Paper Lily

This instructable will show you how to make a lily out of paper. In order to make it, you will need a piece of paper (any size as long as it is a quadrilateral) and a pencil or pen.

Step 1: Make a Square

If your piece of paper is already square, then you can skip this step. Fold the edge of your piece of paper to the other edge, lining them up as best you can. Fold the remaining chunk back along the line. Crease it well, then tear it (or cut it) off.

Step 2: Crease It Like an "x"

Fold into a triangle again the other way

Step 3: Fold It in Quarters

Fold the paper in quarters and then unfold it. It should look like the picture.

Step 4: Make a Square Base

Fold the paper in half and bring the ends together along the creases

Step 5: Fold the Wings

fold the edges of the wings from the top section of the model into the center crease and unfold.

Step 6: Compress the "wings"

open each of the wings and fold down across the creases. (Tip: it is easier to get a better corner if you use a pencil to help fold it.)

Step 7: Fold in the Bottom Sections

Fold the bottom sections into the crease in the center. Repeat for all four sides. Make sure you are not folding the smooth side.

Step 8: Fold the Model in Half

Fold it right in the center next to the corner of the triangles you just made and then unfold it.

Step 9: Rotate

Rotate the model 180 degrees. the opening should be facing away from you.

Step 10: Unfolding

Unfold all all the triangles you made in step 7.

Step 11: Make the The Pollen Things

Pull the center down and fold in the triangles back over the new triangles. Repeat on all four sides. They pollen things may be called stamens.

Step 12: Flip Up the Triangles

Flip all the triangles you just made up.

Step 13: Fold the Bottoms

Switch to a FLAT section of the model. Fold the edges of the bottom part of the flower into the center crease. Repeat for all four flat sides.

Step 14: Open It Up

gently move the petals until it becomes square.

Step 15: Curl the Petals

Using your pencil, curl all the petals to finish your lily.

Step 16: Enjoy Your Flower

Congratulations! You have a flower that can never die! Give it to that special someone or your arch nemesis. It's up to you.

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Ya good? Did you get step 11?

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Handprint Lilies | How to Make an Easy Paper Lily

These handprint lilies are so beautiful and surprisingly easy to make! They’d make such a thoughtful handmade gift idea for Mother’s Day if you make a small bouquet and tie them together with a ribbon. Or you could make a bouquet of handprint Easter lilies if you use white paper. Can Easter lilies be pink? I think they’re just white? Either way, they’re adorable for spring and they’re a wonderful low mess craft to make with the kids!

I had such an awesome helper when I made these paper handprint lilies! My spunky 5 year old loves crafts, and she loves helping me with the crafts that I make for the blog. It’s so much fun that she’s finally at an age where we can do crafts together! You know… as opposed to me making the entire craft while she watches me make the craft and “helps” makes each step more difficult . Big difference!

As a blogger, it’s a lot of extra work to make crafts since I have to set up a full photo shoot and take pictures every step of the way. Usually my kids lose interest, but my 5 year old was totally into it for this one! She wanted to be part of every step and insisted that I include a photo of her and the paper lily that she made all by herself (see below!). So I have to give a big shout out to my awesome helper and hand model for this one! I loved having her at my side!

These handprint lilies are so easy to make and they look so beautiful! You can use coloured paper and make a bouquet of paper handprint lilies for Mother's Day. Or if you make them with white paper they make lovely Easter lilies. They're such an awesome Mother's day craft and a low mess Easter craft idea!

I love the idea of turning a handprint into a flower! Who would have thought they’d look so pretty!? And this craft is so simple that my 5 year old could make the entire craft all by herself. She needed a little bit of help here and there just to help her make things look tidy, but for the most part, she was able to create a beautiful paper lily all by herself.

Here’s my little helper with her finished flower:

The poor thing was home from school and sick with a fever when we made it, but a little bit of crafting (and children’s Advil…) made everything better and cheered her right up!

Check out our video on How to Make Handprint Lilies

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6″ Green and Yellow pipe cleaners

I used pink printer paper to make our lilies, but you could easily use construction paper. It would probably work if you made them out of thicker card stock too, they might just be a little bit harder to curve into shape.

Start by tracing the outline of your hand onto the printer paper.

Then cut out your handprint. If you have any pencil marks showing on the paper, just use an eraser to carefully erase them.

Curl the bottom of the hand shape into a cone. Leave a small hole at the tip of the cone, just large enough to fit a pipe cleaner through.

Then use a small piece of invisible tape to hold it together.

Use a ROUND pencil (not a hexagonal pencil like I’m showing in the picture below) to curl each one of the fingers of the handprint outwards. A pencil crayon, marker or round pen will also work well.

If you use a pencil with the hexagonal corners like I’m showing in the picture below, it will end up leaving little folded marks on your paper. I just forgot to go back and take a better photograph of that for you so just try to keep it in mind while you’re making these.

Curl each one of the fingers outwards so that your flower looks something like this:

I ended up using one 6″ yellow pipe cleaner and one 6″ green pipe cleaner. If you don’t have short pipe cleaners, just cut the standard 12″ long pipe cleaners in half.

Start by bending the yellow pipe cleaner in half:

Make a little “J” shaped hook on the end of the green pipe cleaner and loop it over the bend in the yellow pipe cleaner.

Then bend one side of the yellow pipe cleaner in half again, leaving the other side straight like in the photo below.

Pinch the “J” shape in the green pipe cleaner so it tightly holds the yellow pipe cleaner. If there’s room, you can twist it a little, but as long as you pinch it tightly, it should hold itself together nicely.

Then take the longer end of the yellow pipe cleaner and wrap it tightly around the shorter side of the yellow pipe cleaner. Keep wrapping tightly until you reach the end of the yellow pipe cleaner.

Take the pipe cleaner stem and poke it through the middle of the hand print flower, pulling it all the way through so the green stem is below the flower and the yellow part is in the middle of the flower.

Then repeat all of these steps to make yourself a small bouquet! The bouquet doesn’t need to be big. Three handprint lilies looks beautiful!

Don’t they look pretty? And they are so easy to make! Who would have thought!?

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These handprint lilies are so easy to make and they look so beautiful! Who would have thought that you could make paper flowers using handprints!? If you make them with white paper they make lovely Easter lilies. Or you can use coloured paper and make a bouquet of handprint lilies for Mother’s Day. They’re such an awesome Mother’s day craft and a low mess Easter craft idea!

Here are even more easy and fun Easter craft ideas!

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February 27, 2018 at 12:57 am

Those are very sweet!

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Loved making these, thanks!!

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Origami Lily Flower

Level: Easy

Time Needed: Approx. 5 Minutes

Tools: None

Supplies: 1 Sheet of Square Paper

The origami lily is a very well known and loved origami flower . It’s easy to make and only takes a couple of minutes to complete. You can make a whole bouquet of paper flowers.

All you need is 1 square sheet of paper, any paper will do. The best paper to use would be thin but strong paper around 15x15cm or larger to begin with.

The origami lily flower is only one extra step from the origami bird base !

Origami Lily Flower Instructions

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Step 1: This is the front of your paper, the origami lily will end up this colour.

Step 2: This is the back of your paper, you will see this colour on the inside of the lily.

Step 3: Start by making a water bomb base. If you already know how, click here to skip to step 14 . Fold the bottom point up to the top point.

Step 4: Unfold the previous step.

Step 5: Fold the right point over to the left point.

Step 6: Unfold the previous step.

Step 7: Flip the paper over to the other side and rotate.

Step 8: Fold the bottom edge up to the top edge.

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14 Comments for “How To Make An Origami Lily Flower”

This was exceptionally easier than i thought.

It was fun and super easy I loved making it!

Myn was with color

I’m not the best at origami but I think I did pretty good for my first try. [Used posted notes]

This îs my lilly, it didn’t come out quite right, cause i opened it at some point to figure out what i did wrong, and re-did it… But it’s cute

I ❤ it. So easy to follow.👍

It wasn’t really that easy to follow. This should be put in the intermediate section because I was looking for an easy, cute one and it turned out that it wasn’t so easy. DO NOT RECOMMEND FOR BEGINNERS. just because it says “easy” does not mean it is. thanks for reading, DogMom

Excellent visuals and instructions. I practiced using a piece of advertising and shall move ahead to nicer paper.

Mm. Not so easy. Initially I only had 2 petals. Fixed that. But still… not good. The steps where it says “repeat” could really use so more more visuals. and I agree this is intermediate. Cranes, roosters. Those arent bad. But this… this is intermediate.

Very good for the first (or second) try, now you can make more even better. Thanks for the feedback, we will have a look at adding more steps 🙂

I think that is was hard to do the 27 step

… I think I messed up

No photo, incomplete, after 4 tries I got stuck in number 25 each time. I will persevere though.

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Origami lilies are a more advanced origami fold but are popular and rewarding to make. When completed, the lily becomes an ideal decoration and can be used for table centerpieces, gift packaging and craft work.

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To fold an origami lily, first, fold a square piece of paper in half diagonally. Open it back up, then fold it diagonally in the other direction. Fold your paper again to form a triangle, then grab the corner and fold it back to the center so it forms a diamond shape. To make the smaller folds, flip your paper over and repeat the last step so that your entire paper is diamond-shaped. Then, take the 2 widest corners of the diamond and fold them into the center. Unfold them, then pick up the top flap on the right side of your diamond and fold it to the center. Flip the paper over and repeat the last 2 steps. To complete the lily, fold the top flaps inward, then flip the base of the triangle up. Then, fold the flaps over so you hide the sides and flaps you just folded to the middle. Finally, fold the tops of the smooth flaps over and use your finger to curl them downward so they look like petals. For more advice on folding origami, read on! Did this summary help you? Yes No

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