Material: cotton thread, 4 pieces of green colored paper, 12 pieces of pink colored paper, scissors.

1. Fold three left and right like a folding fan, and then stick them together, and the lotus leaf is ready.

2. Cut off two slender petals as shown in the figure, and cut off one petal one by one.

3. Cut a hole in the middle of another petal and stick the stamens on it. In order to form a three-dimensional effect, the lotus is pasted on the lotus leaf.

Lotus belongs to Ranunculaceae, which is the general name of two species of lotus. Also known as lotus, water hibiscus and so on. It is a perennial aquatic herb flower of lotus. Underground stems are long and thick, with long nodes and round leaves. Flowering from June to September, it is solitary at the top of the pedicel. There are many petals embedded in the receptacle hole, which are red, pink, white and purple, or have colored lines and edges.

Nuts are oval and seeds are oval.

There are many kinds of lotus flowers, which are divided into ornamental and edible categories. China is native to tropical and temperate Asia and was planted as early as the Zhou Dynasty. Lotus is precious all over the body, lotus root and lotus seed are edible, and the germ of lotus seed, rhizome, lotus node, lotus leaf, flower and seed can be used as medicine. Its character of emerging from the mud without staining has always been praised by the world. "