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This image shows the top of our school banner

We designed a banner for the school, which was Charles Dickens' house during the last 13 years of his life.

At the top of the banner, we did a screen print of the school. Then, each girl made a puppet of herself in uniform. Each girl learnt how to stick flower petals onto silk and thus create a new flower or a flower head, like Pam Watts does.

How to use flowers

• Take a piece of silk or a pretty plain cotton
• Iron a piece of Bondaweb onto it and peel it
• Pull off the petals from one or more flowers
• Arrange them to make a new flower
• Put a sheet of baking parchment over them and iron
• Finish with buttons, beads and stitches
• A miracle! A new flower is born

For this, you need a lot of patience and care. With this method, you can create beautiful materials to make a purse, a bag or a book cover - or whatever you want. Instead of putting the petals into a circle to make a new flower, you could put them in lines or in a random way to make a pattern.

We used this technique to make the birds in our Biodiversity project.

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