How Do You Make Crepe Paper Carnations?
Crepe paper carnations make beautiful decorations for May Day, Cinco de Mayo and Mother’s Day. They are also good for Dia de Los Muertos, the Day of the Dead. Crepe paper flowers look like the ruffled skirts of the beautiful folk dance costumes worn by women in Mexico and other Spanish-speaking countries. Lay out seven or eight 8-by-11 inch sheets of crepe paper on top of one another, narrow side facing you. Working from the narrow end, take the bottom edge of the pile of paper and fold it up to meet the top edge. Fold in half again. Trim bottom corners so they are rounded, but do not cut across the bottom of the petal. They will be unfolded along that line. Slash the straight edge to about a third of the way down the petal so that you will be able to ruffle it later. Take the petals you rounded in step four of section one and open them along the fold line. Pinch the center of the petals along with the center of the green pipe cleaner. Fold the pipe cleaner in half so that the two ends
