plus the sharp ends of the pipe cleaners are all tucked away into the flower head.
the way that the chains join together is using a hook that you start each chain with. i made the hooks in the same way that i made the flowers, but instead of gluing a flower onto the sharp ends of the pipe cleaner, i glued on a bead and then bent the pipe cleaner into the hook shape.
here you can see how they thread together easily and how the hook works to close the chain.
from the materials we started out with, we were able to make approximately 80 flowers (half white and half pink), 