Painted Mason Jars & Coffee Filter Flower Bouquets -- Rainy Day Kids Crafts

Instructions

1. Put a dime-size amount of acrylic paint in bowls (Sunny Day, Bright Magenta, Lime, Tree, Grape Jam, Tropic Orange, Bimini Blue each have their own bowl).
2. Add water to each bowl and mix with each paint.
3. Fold a coffee filter in half, then in half again making a quarter.
4. Dip the edges of the coffee filter into Sunny Day and flip coffee filter so that paint can run down and saturate the filter. Repeat this step with all colors- making 5 dyed coffee filters of each color.
5. Once dry, fold the coffee filter quarterly again. Dip the triangle point end into bowl and flip coffee filter over. Repeat this step with all colors.
6. Tape off mason jars as shown in photo.
7. Using Spouncer, paint each jar with multi-surface paints. For example: one jar painted Lemon, one jar painted Primary Blue, etc.).
8. Remove tape from mason jars.
9. Paint dowels White.
10. With a craft knife, poke a small hole in the center of each coffee filter.
11. To create large flowers: pierce three Bimini Blue coffee filters with dowel. Apply hot glue to the center of the top coffee filter and bunch up the filter to adhere it to the top of the dowel. Continue gluing all layers. Repeat with each color.
12. To create flower buds: pierce one Bimini Blue coffee filter with a dowel. Apply hot glue to the center of the coffee filter and bunch up the filter to adhere it to dowel. Repeat with each color.
13.  Once all filters have been glued, fluff out petals.
14.  Dry-brush edges of petals with corresponding multi-surface paints. (Bimini Blue flower with Primary Blue edges, Sunny Day with Lemon edges, Bright Magenta with Candy Apple, Tropic Orange with Outrageous Orange, Lime Tree with Clover Fields, Grape Jam with Princess Purple).
15.  Paint outer rim of mason jar lids Wicker White.
16.  Arrange flower trios inside jars according to color.