Duct Tape Flowers, Pens, Rings, or Whatever You Can Make with Them

 So, I thought for today I could post these cute flowers made out of Duct Tape. I took some of these pictures last September as my girls were making some of these flowers back then but I never posted on it and then over the past year, they have gotten or made a few more things other than the rings. I loved the red, white and blue larger flower as up to that point I had only seen the small flowers made into rings and now the pen.

I think the pen would be a cute thing to make for mothers day or for a secretary's desk making the flowers out of different tape so they were all unique. No one is going to walk away with that pen unnoticed.

They would be a great gift that way if they had a problem with people taking their pens. Everyone one would know whose pen it was.

I had the girls show me how they made the flowers. They cut up little pieces of the color of tape they want and they put them on the edge of something the tape won't ruin so they have the little pieces all ready to go so they don't have to stop and cut a piece each petal.

The pieces are squares and then they fold the square over from opposite corner to opposite corner and stick it together and then fold that into a small triangle on itself again. Once they have it in the triangle shape, they tape it to the next one layering triangle onto triangle and then when they have a few in a row, they start to make it into a circle where they go round and round taping each triangle onto the next on but in a continual circle until it reaches the desired size.

If you want alternating colors or textures, just do one row one color and the next row another. You can see above one solid color, two solid colors and three solid colors and how those look and then two textured colors on the pen.

The possibilities are endless with home many colors and how many textures you use or how big you make the triangles. You could even make a really large flower.

My nieces made some of these flowers to sell at their mom's boutique last Thanksgiving and I took a picture of some of their creations. They put them on hair bows as well.

These will give you an idea of some of the color combinations that look good. You can see the different sizes as well.

Here is a beginning of a flower. Then you can see the little pieces of tape they ripped off to make the petals.

There are many things you can do with these flowers and for the most part, they are just for fun like anything else you make and use Duct Tape for, it is more about the creating than actual functionality.

Once you get the flower to a size that you have it where you want it, then you take whatever color tape you want on the outside of the flower and give it a good coating as you can see on this ring. If you want to make a ring, take a strip and fold it on itself in half and half again making the strip thin width wise but thicker as the ring will hold better with the four layers of the folded tape. Then use the color you are using to coat the outside of the flower and put it through the loop of the ring once you size the loop to your finger. Test the size of the loop by wrapping the strip that is folded upon itself around your finger. Hold it where it is comfortable and not tight on your finger.

Next, once you have the size you want, start taping it onto the flower. It doesn't take more than a layer to hold it in place for size and to tape it to the flower.

Experimentation is the key. Just try different sizes of squares and different colors and see what creations you can make.

I hadn't planned on making this week a Duct Tape week but I did have these pictures taken for months and figured I would just put it here since we had such cute other ideas as well.

If you want to see what other cute Duct Tape items the girls have made, just type "Duct Tape" into the search box at the bottom of the page and you will be able to see all the duct tape items including , glasses, shirts, shorts, gloves, suspenders, bow ties, capes and some crafty ideas with binders etc. I have one or two more duct tape ideas the girls have done but don't know that I will post them now. Perhaps another Duct tape week in the future..... Keeps it interesting having different things every day as I think it would get boring to have a blog just about one thing. However, that is just me....

Hope you have a "flowerful" spring!