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How to Cut A Four-Petal Paper Flower

By Janice VanCleave

Directions for Folding and Cutting a Four Petal Flower

In this craft activity, you need paper (copy paper works), pencil, and scissors.

The directions show folding and drawing a portion of a paper flower.

How to Cut-out Paper Flowers.

1. Cut a 4 in2 piece of paper.
2. Fold the paper square in half twice as shown in the diagram.
3. On the folded piece, draw what looks like a heart-shape.

Make note of where the fold is and you might draw
a diagonal line for reference. You can see a faint line in the diagram where curve of the drawn line stops.

4.
Cut along the curved line –cutting through all four layers of the paper.

5. Unfold the paper and you will have a four-petal flower.

A paper flower with four petals.

Paper Flower With Four Petals.

 

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