Cinco de Mayo Decorations

Cinco de Mayo, for many of us, is a reason to get together with friends and drink margaritas and celebrate!  Though this holiday was originally created to support freedom during the Civil War by Mexicans and Latinos in California, it is now often celebrated with decorations in bright, vibrant, primary colors, with good food and big parties.  And we've got you covered on how to Plan a Fiesta.

This is a great time to get creative for your festivities! Nobbies own creative queen, Chris Krohn, did just that by creating colorful flowers out of tissue paper and pipe cleaners! Here’s how you can do the same thing at home.

Materials Needed:

• Green pipe cleaners
• 16 sheets of colorful tissue paper (cut to 12” vertical and 24” horizontal)

 Instructions:

1. Start by stacking your tissue paper sheets on top of each other. Make sure that they are all the same direction and lined up.
2. Take one end and fold the tissue over 1 ½ times. 
3. Next fold it the opposite way the same size. You are going to keep folding one way then the other till you have the whole thing folded like an accordion.
4. After folding, take your pipe cleaner and wrap it around the middle of the folded paper, and twist it off to make the “stem” of the flower.
5. Next, starting with one side, spread the tissue paper out and from the middle.  By the stem, pull one sheet of tissue to the middle at a time. Keep repeating this until each layer is pulled up.
6. Then switch to the opposite side of the pipe cleaner and do the same thing.

It’s that simple to create your tissue flower.  Place your flowers into a colorful vase and Olé!  You’ve created a quick, easy and inexpensive centerpiece for your Cinco de Mayo fiesta!

Or, if you prefer, we can make them for you.  Just call Chris at 402-333-6300 x 213 for details.