Christmas Make & Bake Part 5: Papercraft
I love papercraft, being able to take a simple piece of paper and quickly and easily turn it into something beautiful is really special. I’ve got two easy decorations that you can make in various sizes, both make great stand alone decorations or you can make smaller versions and string them together to create gorgeous garlands. How festive!
You will need:
Card and paper in your chosen colours, this doesn’t need to be thick of fancy, normal printer paper is perfect, but these would also be great with patterned paper or paper you have printed or drawn on
Scissors
Circle stamp or large hole punch
Sticky tape or double sided tape
Wool and ribbon
Get making:
3D paper stars
Make a square from your A4 sheets of paper
Fold the square into a triangle. Draw lines on the paper as shown above and cut along the lines, being careful not to cut all the way to the folded edge.
Once you have made your cuts, unfold the triangle and fold the two centre sections, curling them over each other and secure with tape.
Turn the paper over and take the next layer that you cut and secure in the same way.
Keep doing this until you have folded all the sections.
The single version of this makes a lovely decorations but if you make 6 and join them together in the middle it makes a gorgeous 3D star.
Spinning Ball Garland
Cut a load of circles using your stamp (or freehand ) if you are using 2 colours cut equal amounts of each.
Fold each circle in half and stick together in pairs of the same colour.
Stick these pairs together in alternating colours.
Pull the two ends round to meet and secure together forming a ball! Beautiful.
String lots of the balls together on to wool or twine and hang as a garland!
Don’t forget to check back tomorrow for Christmas Make & Bake 6 and if you haven’t already take a look at Christmas Make & Bake 1: Peppermint Bark, Christmas Make & Bake 2: Woollen Wonders, Christmas Make & Bake 3: Rudolph Biscuits and Christmas Make & Bake 4: Santa’s Hot Chocolate
Merry Christmas!
Sam
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