Creating your rose colours
- Pour your liquid water colours in an ice cube tray
- Dilute the colours slightly with water and test the colours on a piece of paper towel
- Cut your paper towels in half - you’ll need one half (which you will cut in 2) for each rose
- Using medicine droppers, a teaspoon or paintbrushes, have the kids drip two complementary colours all over their paper towel until it’s completely covered
- Dry your paper towels thoroughly (be sure to protect the surface you’re drying them on)
Creating your rose
- Cut the dry paper towels into two long strips
- Crumple the paper towels and then pat them back flat
- For each strip, fold the long edge about a 5mm and glue it down
- Using a plastic or paper straw, tape the non-glued end of the paper towel to the straw (glued end up)
- Roll the paper towel around the straw to form your flower
- Be sure to pinch the bottom of paper tower as you roll it so the flower looks bloomed
- Wrap tape at the bottom of the paper towel when you're done rolling
