How do you make a flower pen?

Answer 1

• Large wing feathers (A pack of plain turkey quill feathers can be bought for under $3). Try to find feathers that are about 12" long or more, with a thick shaft.
• An art knife to cut the correct angle on the feather shaft
• Ink in a bottle - can be purchased at most craft and art supply stores. You might want to start with non-permanent ink until you are experienced.
• Cutting board
• Marker
• Tweezers

What You Do:

1. Select your feather. You need a feather long enough to hold comfortably, with a sturdy shaft (the spine of the feather). Prime wing feathers can be purchased from places like www.ostrich.com or you can gather one on a nature walk. Quill pens were most often made from goose feathers, but turkey feathers were also popular. You can leave the feather as is, or trim the sides of the feather for several inches, to leave more room for a better grip.
2. Follow the natural curve of the feather. You want your writing point to point down.
3. Take your marker and make a dot at the point where you'd like the writing tip to be. Place your marked feather on a cutting board. With a sharp knife, cut the end of the quill at a slant less than 45 degrees.
4. Take the tweezers and clean out any materials left in the cut shaft.
5. Dip your new quill pen into some non-permanent ink. Give your child a chance to experiment with the quill. How does using it change his penmanship?

Answer 2

well you get yarn and rap it tightly around the pen then you get a fuzzy wire thing and you twist them together and then you get other colors that you want and then make them into like a oval shape and then you can get the stickable letters and put it on top remember to hot glue every thing then you have your flower pen