To make the center pop out a little more use self-adhesive foam pieces! Finally, glue a paper straw or plastic stick in between one of the flower petals and you're done! Make a bunch of different ...

Since you are using colored paper, the sky is really the limit on the variety of flowers you can make. Once you know the process, you can change the petal design to make different types of flowers.

3D model of the ancestral flower ... petal-like organs in sets of three, arranged in whorls, and was bisexual. Hervé Sauquet, from Université Paris-Sud, France, one of the authors of the paper ...