Fairy party-Giant paper flower how to

As part of T's fairy party, mum and I put together a load of paper flower of varying sizes and colours. They are fairly time consuming, but one or two a night didn't take up the evening and meant we had a decent supply by the party-to be honest, I only made 3 of them and then mum took the rest on!

You will need:

Tissue paper (absolutely loads of it!)
Thick paper/card plates (we used very think plastic plates which we cut down but that's just because we had them lying around the house)
Kirby grips or floristry wire
PVA glue (or stronger)

1. Gather together piles of 6 sheets of tissue paper (you need 4 piles of 6 for each flower-for smaller flowers, cut down the size of the sheets)
2. Start to fold each pile of 6 sheets as a whole into a concertina fold all the way across, so you end up with 4 folded strips.

3. Place the Kirby grip or wrap floristry wire around the strip about 2/3-3/4 of the way along.  You will have a short section and a long section.

4. Cut each end into a curved/slightly pointed shape (this will make the ends of the petals)
5. Start at one of the ends and open out like a fan.

6. Start to very gently peel up each layer of tissue paper towards the centre.

7. Repeat with the other section.  This will have created one quarter section of your flower.
8. Repeat with each of your 4 strips.
9. Place a fair amount of glue onto the top of the paper plate
10. Place the smaller section of each petal onto the glue to make the four quarters of the flower. The larger sections should be fluffed up to make the petals.

11.  If you would like to make a different coloured centre for the flowers, repeat the above steps With just one folded and cut piece of tissue paper.  I cut it into 6 small sheets and repeated the above except place the grip/wire at the halfway point so that each side is equal.  This can then be glued into the centre.

12. Once you get the hang of it, you can change the sizing/number of layers/shapes of cuts on the ends etc to give different effects.
13. We made stems for the flowers by covering bamboo canes and large sticks/branches with green tissue paper and then just taping the flowers on (the tape can always be hidden with tissue paper afterwards)