Money and Flowers Bouquet
This beautiful money bouquet makes the perfect gift for graduation, birthdays, or weddings!
Ingredients
- 1 Pool Noodle
- 18 Dollar Bills
- 18 Extra Long Toothpicks 4 inches long
- 11 Faux Flowers 1.5-2 inches in diameter
- Tape Masking or Scotch
- 6 sheets Tissue Paper 20x20
Instructions
- Before beginning, iron each dollar bill you plan to use until it’s nice and flat.
- For each petal you will use one toothpick and one dollar bill. You will also need three pieces of masking tape or scotch tape. Start with the bill face up on a table. Fold it in half and crease it, so when you open it back up you can see the exact center of the bill. Place the flat end of a toothpick onto the crease so that about half an inch of the toothpick is on the bill. Place a piece of tape over the toothpick, letting about a quarter inch of the tape extend past the end of the bill, as shown in the first photo below. Flip the bill over and place another piece of tape on the back of the bill in the same place, again letting the tape extend past the end of the bill.
- Flip the bill face side up again. Grab the two bottom corners and bring them together, curving them in so the bottom sides touch. Pull the corners together to create a petal shape, and secure the bill by taping across it as shown below.
- Repeat until you have five petals for the inner ring of the bouquet and thirteen more for the outer ring.
- To assemble the bouquet, start by cutting a nine inch section of the pool noodle that you will use for the base of the bouquet. Also, cut each rose off the main stem, leaving about four inches of stem below each bloom. Slide any leaves off the stems. Grab one rose and place it in the middle of the pool noodle, poking the stem into the inside circle.
- Next, you’ll add the five money petals around the inside rose. Poke the toothpicks into the top flat surface of the pool noodle, halfway between the inner and outer edge. Try to distribute the five petals fairly evenly around the circle.
- Next you will add ten flowers around the inner ring of money. You’ll be poking the stems of the flowers into the outer edge of the top of the pool noodle, as shown below. Place one flower at the center of each money petal, and one flower in between each money petal, for a total of ten flowers. Try to poke the stems more down in the noodle than toward the center of it.
- Now it’s time to add the outer ring of money petals. You’ll be poking the toothpicks into the side of the pool noodle about half an inch from the top. You will use thirteen money petals, so they will be spaced a little closer together than the ten flowers are, but don’t stress about making the spacing perfectly even. You can adjust a few if needed once you’ve placed all the money petals. You can also gently adjust the flowers and other money petals until you like how it looks.
- Grab a sheet of 20×20 inch tissue paper and fold it into quarters, offsetting each fold a bit as shown below. Repeat with four more sheets of tissue paper. Fold the last sheet of tissue paper in half and then in half again lengthwise, so you have a long strip of tissue paper.
- Use the five sheets of tissue paper to gently wrap the bouquet, allowing the corners to show on the sides of the bouquet when you look down from the top. Secure the tissue paper to the pool noodle with tape or a rubber band. Then use the long strip you made from the last piece of tissue paper to wrap the bottom of the pool noodle. Secure it with tape, tucking the bottom edges in and securing those tape as well.
Notes
If you can't find extra long toothpicks you can use bamboo skewers that you cut to four inches long.