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Ox-eyed daisies are easily fashioned and look so like the real ones that
they are as satisfactory as any paper flowers you can make. Take four
thicknesses of deep-yellow tissue paper. Bend the corner over
diagonally and cut a square four by four inches. Next fold the paper in
the same way as for the petals described in the Daisy Game in this
chapter. Mark on the top of the last fold a petal, as shown in Fig. 83,
and cut it out through all the thicknesses. After it is unfolded you may
have to cut some of the petals up nearer to the centre. Wind some brown
worsted around your thumb about twenty times, take it off and run
through it the end of a wire stem which has been bent into a tiny crook.
Tie the worsted centre just above the wire with a short piece of
worsted, or bind it with fine wire, and cut the loops at the top. Now
run the other end of the stem down through the centre of the petals.
Make a green calyx like the one for the white daisy but much smaller,
not over an inch across. Wind the stem with strips of olive-green tissue
paper, laying in every now and then a daisy leaf cut from the same
dark-green paper. Other single flowers can be as easily made as this,
and you will find that the patterns will not be difficult to make if you
take the natural flowers for your models.
_A Curled Chrysanthemum_
=Materials Required:= Several sheets of pink or yellow tissue
paper in a light and medium shade,
Several sheets of olive-green tissue paper,
A small piece of cardboard,
Some wire stems,
A tube of paste,
Scissors.
[Illustration: FIG. 102]
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