Make Flowery Flip Flops for Summer

Summer is just around the corner and we all know what that means...its flip flop season! Who doesn’t love wearing flip flops? They are cute and so comfortable. You know if you could you’d wear them to work!

Here is a craft idea to make your flip flops look pretty and just a little different from everyone else. I’ve gotten so many compliments on my flip flops when I do this...and my friends all ask me to make them a pair of flip flops when summer rolls around. This is an easy, simple craft to do that doesn’t cost very much money. You can even give flip flops to friends and family members as a little “welcome to summertime” type of gift.

Do make flowery flip flops you will need:

a pair of flip flops

silk flowers

a glue gun

glue sticks for glue gun (ideally you will want high temperature glue sticks)


Tips for getting your supplies:

You can find silk flowers at most dollar stores, get a whole bunch of silk flowers for several dollars and you can make a dozen flip flops! A tip to you before you buy your silk flowers...and this is because you are making your flip flops with them, you are not putting them in a vase. Before you spend your money on them, pick up the flowers and feel them, feel their leaves also and run them over your hand and maybe even over your cheek. This sounds like a strange step doesn’t it? But do any of the leaves feel scratchy to you? Is there anything on the flower that feels poky and hard? If you like the flowers and want to make your flip flops out of them, you aren’t going to want anything that could bother your feet. Now this could be fixable, you may be able to trim some edges off, depending on if those edges will touch your bare foot. Remember that bare feet are very sensitive. Most silk flowers are soft and so are the leaves that come with them. But sometimes the spines they put into the leaves are hard because they are made out of plastic, and those can poke your foot if you glue them onto your flip flop the wrong way. So pay attention to how the flower feels.