- step-by-step tutorial on how to make it
- tips and tricks that I learned along the way to make crafting it easier, and
- 4 ways you can display these gorgeous flowers at home
Next, the kit comes with a bunch of flowers, leaves and accent pieces to punch out. So, after you’ve punched everything out, your table should look something like this:
The main thing to keep in mind with this kit is they’ve really made it fool-proof…and I’m a fool. Because I messed up their very SIMPLE instructions, so don’t do what I did! More on that below.
Each flower, leaf, hexagon, and yellow dot has a letter marked on the back of it – either A, B or C. Each complete poinsettia comes with a yellow dot, hexagon base, 3 flowers (that you will stack on top of each other) and several leaves. So, the first thing you should do is find is your ‘A’ yellow dot, ‘A’ hexagon, all your ‘A’ flowers and your ‘A’ leaves. Keep in mind that the leaves that correspond to each flower are not meant to be all the same size. There will be bigger and smaller leaves with each flower to create a more natural look to your poinsettias. Make an ‘A’ stack on your table with all of these components. Do the same with ‘B’ and ‘C’.
At this point, we can start folding. You might have noticed that each flower and leaf has a dotted line which is indented on the paper. This is your score line and is meant to help you make that nice fold in the paper. No bone folder required here!
Be sure to fold your leaves and flowers so that the dotted line is on the bottom once you unfold it. The score line is not meant to be seen. This is where I became a fool and accidentally glued three of my leaves with the score line facing up. I know. I know. I was too busy trying to finish this craft before my baby girl woke up from her nap. Don’t do what I did. Take your time before hot gluing!
After you’ve folded all of your leaves and flowers, we can start assembling the first poinsettia. Let’s start with the ‘A’ stack, for example. Take the ‘A’ hexagon and put a dab of glue in the middle of the hexagon (letter side facing down). Adhere your largest flower first. Then put a dab of glue in the middle of that flower and add your medium sized flower on top, at an angle so that the petals are not directly in line with the flower underneath. In other words, stagger the flower shapes so that the petals can all be seen.
Once all three flowers have been stacked, you can adhere your pom poms. Take the ‘A’ yellow dot and glue it to the center of the smallest flower, with the letter side facing down. Then, place a dab of glue in the middle of the yellow dot and adhere your pom pom. (For the largest poinsettia, they gave you 3 pom poms to use, instead of 1.) This is what your poinsettia should look like at this point.
Now we can start adding our leaves. I would recommend laying the leaves out around your flower first, and once you are happy with the look, you can start gluing them on to the back of your flower. Or, you can adhere all of the larger leaves first, and where you see bigger gaps, add your smaller leaves in.
Either way, I highly recommend adding the hot glue to your hexagonal base and then securing the leaf on top. It’s much easier to secure your leaves in the right places if you put glue on the hexagon, rather than on the leaf itself.
Once you have adhered all of your leaves, this is what your flower should look like:
Finally, we can start adding our accent pieces! This kit comes with several gold stems (large and small) and holly twigs. Feel free to add these accents to all of your three poinsettia flowers in any direction you choose. You can also switch up the layering by adhering them to the back, on top of your green leaves or even coming in front of your red poinsettia petals. Have fun with it!
These are some ideas for how to showcase your Poinsettia Kit from Michael’s at home:
1. above a doorway, perhaps accented with a bow
2. as a centerpiece to your table, perhaps with a large pillar candle in the middle. I also accented this with some white berry twigs I had at home.
- only requires one supply: hot glue gun
- instructions are simple and easy to follow
- the ‘A’, ‘B’, and ‘C’ labels on the pieces make it very easy to put together
- score line and indents on the leaves and flowers make it very easy to fold
- since each flower comes with different sizes of leaves, the finished flowers look more natural
- comes with many different kinds accent pieces, so you can easily customize each flower to your liking
- quick to assemble; takes about 30 minutes
- great addition to your Christmas décor
- versatile; can be displayed in a variety of different ways in your home