How to fold an origami carnation

Fold a pink strip in half three times and snip a point to make a zigzag frilly top, then glue it into a green cup on a thin green stem.

You need: A pink 15 × 9 cm strip, a 6 cm green square, a green 4 × 21 cm strip, scissors and glue. Medium, 14 steps, about 12 minutes.

Steps

Fold in half. Pink side up, long edges at the top and bottom. Fold the left half over onto the right half.
And in half again. Fold the right half over onto the left half.
And once more. Fold the left half over onto the right half. Now it is a narrow stack, eight layers thick.
Snip a point. Cut a point into the top: snip from each top corner down a little way, up to the middle of the top edge.
Unfold. Unfold the last fold.
Unfold again. Unfold the fold before it.
Open it out. Unfold the first fold. The top is a frilly zigzag!
Taper the bottom. Fold the two bottom corners behind at a slant, so the flower gets narrow at the bottom.
Cup: new sheet. Set it aside. Take the small green square, green side up.
Cup: taper it. Fold the two bottom corners behind at a slant to make a little cup, wide at the top.
Stem: new sheet. Set it aside. Take the green strip, white side up, long edges at the sides.
Stem: edges to the middle. Fold both long edges in to meet in the middle.
Stem: and again. Fold the new long edges in to the middle again. A thin green stem.
Glue it together. Glue the frilly flower to the top of the stem, then glue the green cup over the bottom of the flower.

Draw a zigzag along the top of the cup and a few frilly lines on the flower.