How to make Sponge Rose Bud Flowers

Sponge Roses Tutorial

Sponge Roses Bouquet

I am on a flower making spree! Making flowers from sponge is perhaps a forgotten craft. I remember seeing many sponge creations in my childhood but hardly anything now. Online too there are very few sponge flowers on Crafting blogs. While spring-cleaning I discovered some sponge sheets I had bought long back and decided to put them to use!
The flower I am going to show you is super easy to make. My daughter has made one too as you can see!
If you are crafting with kids let them roll the flowers but they will need help tying the final rose bud as the floral wire can be sharp for little fingers.

Sponge Flowers

Materials Required
Sponge Sheet - comes in so many delightful colors.
Floral Wire
Scissors
Sponge flower making tutorial

Sponge Flower Making 

 1.Cut the sponge sheet into rectangular long strips

Length of the Sponge Strips: the length can vary with how full you want your rosebud to be.Short ones will make a bud while long ones can make securing the final flower difficult. I used on an average a length of 30 - 35 cm strips

Width: Don't cut it too narrow as it makes working with the rolling and securing the sponge flower difficult. Cut the width between 4- 5 cm.

Tip: You don't have to be really exact. My 4 year old even helped me cut the strips. Thats the wonder of working with sponge.Sponge Cuts even smoother than butter and all inaccuracies are lost in the stretchability of the material

Sponge Rose Flowers Tutorial

 2. Fold the rectangular sponge strips lengthwise

Sponge Flower Making

 3.Start rolling from one end.

How to make Sponge flowers

Here Is my daughter making the sponge flowers

Sponge flowers Kids craft

   4. You can add a twist if you like by making a 90 degree turn as you go along. It gives some added dimension but the Rose bud looks lovely even with simple rolling.

Sponge Flower Tutorial

Sponge Flower Tutorial

 5. As you roll you can shape your Sponge Rose Bud Flower.Keep a Tight hold on the flower base as you roll it.

Sponge Flower Rolled Rosebud

6. Take Floral wire and loop it loosely around the base of your Sponge rosebud.

Sponge Flower Making

Alternately if you like stitching you can secure your sponge rose using a needle and  thread to secure the base.

Sponge Rosebud Flower

Tips:Don't make the wire loop too tight as it can cut through the fragile sponge.Making it too tight can also change the shape of your flower. Don't worry its easy to get the hang of it even at your first attempt!You can stitch the base if you don't have floral wire.Using floral wire makes it very easy.

Sponge Flower on Floral Wire

7. You can cut off the Floral wire or keep it and use your rosebuds however you want.

Finished Sponge Sheet Flower

Some ideas to Use your Sponge RosebudsMake a brooch - In this case you can stitch the base to make it sturdier.
Adorn a gift
Use it as a card embellishment

Sponge Flower on a bamboo stick

Make a bloom and put it in a flower vase

Red Sponge Flowers

Rolled Sponge Flower

This is my daughters Sponge flower. See how cute it is.

How to make Sponge flowers

These are ideal flowers for little hands to make as they dont squash like paper and just rolling is required! This is one of the sponge flowers made by my little girl!

My Daughter's Sponge Flower

Our bouquet came together in no time! A bouquet of Sponge flowers!

Sponge flower bouquet

Edited: This Sponge craft flowers won 3rd Prize at Mindful Meanderings
Where to buy sponge sheets ? : Since sponge craft was an art popular in the 1980s and fallen out of memory it may be difficult to get sponge sheets these days.Your local fancy store may be stocking these if you are lucky!Otherwise keep a look out for sponge sheets that come as packaging when you buy electronic items or crockery.