How to Make a Flower Doll
Article by KarensVariety.com

Make a flower doll to use as table settings for special occasions, hostess gift, Mother's Day gift, or any time you wish to please someone special. The dolls are easy to make using fresh or silk flowers. Different flower types and colour combinations will make unique dolls.

Try hollyhocks, carnations, roses for the skirt and asters or marigolds for the hat. Have a look in your garden and enjoy making these lovely dolls! Make them in different themes; red Poinsettias for Christmas, Black Eyed Susans for autumn, Carnations for spring. The doll can carry small pieces of holly for Christmas, wheat or grass for fall dolls, and flowers for spring.

Materials: One wooden bead head with a small hole One 12 inch pipe cleaner One 4 inch pipe cleaner Pair of small leaves Pair of large leaves Large flower Small flower Lid from frozen juice container Small flowers for bouquet

Method:

* Make a circle at one end of the long pipe cleaner for the base and glue to the metal lid to support the doll.
* Add the doll sections by placing on the pipe cleaner from the bottom up.
* Make four spots on the pipe cleaner to attach the sections.
* As you add flowers and leaves, place small drop of glue on the pipe cleaner at each section where they attach.
* Place the large flower upside down and thread over the pipe cleaner, followed by two large leaves.
Note: In some cases the flower should not be placed upside down; this is determined by how the petals stand.
* Wrap the small pipe cleaner around the large pipe cleaner bending the ends as hands.
* Place the small leaves.
* Insert the hole of the wooden bead over the top of the pipe cleaner. If the hole is too large, fold over the top of the pipe cleaner.
* Place a drop of glue on top of the bead and set the small flower upside down as a hat.
* Place a drop of glue on the folded over pipe cleaner hand and set in tiny flowers as a bouquet.