Paper Hyacinths for the Nowruz Table

Yesterday evening myself and the children crafted some Hyacinth for our Nowruz table from some crepe paper and a dowel. I’ve seen so many prettt handmade paper hyacinth which I want to attempt myself if I have time but these ones are always great for children to get involved with and are great for developing hand eye coordination and motor skills.

This is such an easy and relatively quick craft to do once you get in the swing of it.

I recommend crepe paper for this craft as it has a nice texture but you can use any.

First you need some Dowel rods or sticks. I have 6mm dowels.

✂️ Cut your crepe paper into rectangles and then cut it into a ‘fringe’.

Roll the strips of the fringe around your dowel and then glue the dowel for your stem and the bottom uncut edge of the rolled fringe.

Stick to your dowel to curl them, once curled starting at the top (hiding the dowel) twist your paper strip around and around (keeping it all close together) and down the dowel until you reach the end of the strip, you should ensure the curls are facing outward.

We used three rectangles for each flower and then cut some leaf shapes from green crepe paper. You can wrap the dowel in green paper but we didn’t have enough so we will probably paint them with a little watercolour.

We have done Lilac and white but you could do an array of pretty colours.

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