How to Make Metal Bottle Cap Flowers – Easy Upcycled Kids Craft

Looking for an easy spring flower craft for kids? These metal bottle cap flowers are simple to make, colourful and created from recycled materials.

In this step-by-step tutorial, I’ll show you how to make bright spring flowers using metal bottle caps, tissue paper, and pipe cleaners. It’s a simple recycled flower craft that works beautifully for classroom displays, seasonal decorations or handmade gifts.

The bottle cap flowers are quick to put together and easy for children to customise with different petal shapes and colours. They’re perfect for handmade cards, classroom spring displays, Mother’s Day gifts, collages or framed artwork.

If you’ve seen my plastic bottle cap flowers before, these are very similar — but here the metal bottle cap is clearly visible as the flower centre, making it perfect if you’re specifically looking for crafts with metal bottle caps.

More Flower Crafts You Might Like

If you enjoy making flowers, you might also like these creative flower craft ideas:

• Plastic bottle top flowers – a colourful recycled flower craft using plastic caps.
• Pipe cleaner snowdrops – delicate spring flowers made from simple craft materials.
• Pipe cleaner daffodils – bright handmade blooms that look lovely in a display.
• Paper Flower Photo Holder – a bright flowery disply for photos
• DIY flower shoes – a fun way to decorate footwear with handmade flowers.

Materials Needed to Make Bottle Cap Flowers

• Tissue paper circles (pre-cut or cut your own)
• Metal bottle caps
• Plastic Bottle Caps (optional for stands)
• Green pipe cleaners (30cm long)
• PVA (white) glue
• Scissors

Each flower requires: 2 tissue paper circles, 1 metal bottle cap and 1 pipe cleaner stem.

How to Make Bottle Cap Flowers (Step-by-Step)

1. Create the Stem

Take a pipe cleaner and wrap one end around the inside of the bottle top. Allow a little wrap over so you can twist the pipe cleaner onto itself to hold the shape.

Remove the pipe cleaner and set it aside.

2. Cut the Petals

Fold your tissue paper circles and cut into a petal shape.

The number of folds changes the look:

• 3 folds = softer rounded petals
• 4 folds = more defined shape
• 5 folds = thinner, more detailed petals

You can also leave the circles uncut for a simpler layered flower.

This is a lovely opportunity for children to experiment and see how different folds create different flower styles.

3. Layer the Flower

Unfold both tissue paper shapes.

Add a small blob of glue to the centre of one flower shape and place the second on top, slightly offsetting the petals so they don’t sit directly on top of one another.

This gives the flower more fullness and dimension.

4. Fix Everything Into the Bottle Cap

Spread glue inside the bottle cap.

Gently press the centre of the tissue flower into the cap. Then glue the pipe cleaner into position (on top of the tissue paper layers), pressing the tissue paper down slightly so everything settles neatly inside.

It can help to place the pipe cleaner in position without glue first, so you can adjust the tissue paper flower before securing it permanently.

Tip: If your bottle cap has writing on it, check the positioning before gluing. If you’d like the text to sit horizontally, line it up before fixing the stem in place.

Ways to Use Your Bottle Cap Flowers

These finished bottle cap flowers are surprisingly versatile. You can:

• Glue them onto handmade cards
• Add them to mixed-media collages
• Create a framed recycled flower picture (Ikea frames are ideal)
• Make a small bouquet display
• Use squeezy bottle lids as simple flower holders
• Add them to Mother’s Day cards or spring classroom displays

They’re a cheerful upcycled flower craft for kids and a great way to encourage creativity using recycled materials.