Coffee Filter Flowers

3 Materials
$1
10 Minutes
Easy

These big, beautiful blooms can stay in your house all year round! I love how easy it is to make these statement pieces for your home decor...or create a sentimental bouquet for someone special in your life. All it takes is some inexpensive coffee filters!

Add Happiness To Your Home


The soft, color-splashed flower edges create the most gorgeous fake flowers!


Which is important because  flowers increase happiness in our lives. And if you don't have fresh flowers indoors, you definitely should have these!

Just a Few Ingredients


Gather together the materials. Chances are, you probably have them in your home right now.



  • white, large coffee filters
  • assorted craft paints in blue, pink, purple, aqua (we used regular acrylic craft paint but you can use watercolors or paint of your choice)
  • stapler or pipe cleaners 
  • cookie sheet or tinfoil
  • large bowl
Create the Colors


  • Begin by adding a few drops of each paint color to your bowl.
  • Add in a few drops of water and gently stir. This will loosen the paint up and help the coffee filters absorb the color well.
  • Take 2-3 coffee filters at a time (still connected/stacked) and turn them over, gently dipping and swishing them around in the paint mixture. You want to make sure the ends of the coffee filters are covered well and allowed to absorb the paint.
Let Dry


  • Set the wet/painted coffee filter on a cookie sheet or tinfoil to dry. Repeat, coloring as many coffee filters as you wish.
Fluff to Make a Flower


  • Once the filters are dry, gently peel the layers apart to fluff them out a bit.
  • You can then take multiple layers and combine them, one inside of the other, to create a full and colorful flower.
  • Secure the coffee filters together with either a staple at the base of the flower, or you can tightly wrap a piece of pipe cleaner around it and use the rest of the pipe cleaner as the stem. Attach the flowers to a pipe cleaner, wire, plastic straw, branch, etc. in order to display in a vase.
  • Give the flower one last fluff and you are ready to display them. Arrange them in a simple bowl or vase for a pop of color in any room. 
Try Another Coffee DIY


These coffee filter flowers are beautiful! And if you have coffee filters at home, chances are you probably love coffee!


Why not use your old coffee grounds to make a delicious natural coffee smell air freshener for your home? It's one more way of reusing what you have at home for another great purpose.

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  • Paige Mull Paige Mull on Apr 10, 2020

    Hello Friend,

    I love coffee filter flowers! They are so pretty. And simple to make. Thanks for reminding us of that! Stay safe and well!

    ❤️💜💚

  • Leona Leona on Apr 15, 2020

    I will definitely try them. They are so beautiful. Thank you. Send more ideas please

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