How to Make Coffee Filter Leis
- 1). Fill a few bowls with water and stir in several drops of a different food coloring in each.
- 2). Hold a coffee filter (still folded up) and dip the edge into the water. This will create a ring of color around the edge of the filter. Dip 20 filters in the different colors and leave all of them to dry for several minutes.
- 3). Open a coffee filter. Then, wrap it closed around your finger. Remove your finger and put a rubber band around the filter. This will create the illusion of a narrow trumpet flower with spreading pedals.
- 4). Thread a needle. Poke the needle through the center of all the flowers. Push the flowers so they are close to each other. Leave about 3 inches of thread on each end.
- 5). Remove the needle and tie the thread ends to form the lei. You now have an authentic-looking coffee filter lei.
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