Category: Kirigami

Paper crafts for kids: Beautiful Paper Butterflies!
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Paper crafts for kids: Beautiful Paper Butterflies! Paper crafts Here is a sweet and simple craft to bring some "Spring" into your home! Inspired by the book All Year Round. You'll need: watercolour paper and paint tissue paper glue stick and scissors First paint your paper in spring colours...let it dry. Fold your paper in half and draw on a butterfly shape... cut it out. Turn it over and glue on some tissue paper over the "holes". Now take a triangle of your watercolour paper... roll it up and glue it onto the front
Paper crafts: Wild Paper Animals
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Let’s Meet The Players: Paper Pen or Pencil Scissors Glue Stick Any number of things for decorating… paints, markers, pipecleaners, strings and things!!! And Let’s Play The Game: The older guys made a template based on a previous beastly bunting project. First they tried a paper proto-type!!! Impressive planning!!! They took large pieces of cardboard and traced their template and snipped away. Paints and crayons galore… Little features: teeth, ears, eyes, mane, tusks and tails. Glue: A dab of gluestick in the prototype became globs of project glue in the real thing!!!
Crafts for summer: Paper Flowers tutorial
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Fold & stack flowers From Breanna... These are super easy if you have all the right stuff... For the big arrangements, I left a lot with the wire exposed and covered others with the pom poms. Materials: flower stencil from hobby lobby/craft store {it was in a really obscure place near the stamps} paper piercer floral wire mini pom poms {optional} Step-by-Step Instructions: 1. trace and cut the petals--this is definitely the most time consuming step. 2. the stencil suggests a number to cut, but i usually added an extra
Gift presents: cute box gifts for kids
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Gift presents: cute box gifts for kids Paper crafts for kids Once upon a time…roll these dice and create a story based on the pretty pictures that you see. What You’ll Need: *Pretty Card and Paper (stickers, stamps if preferred) *Pen *Glue and brush *Scissors *Ruler Step 1: To construct a cube, draw 6 squares (2”x2”) in a cross formation on the reverse side of cardstock. Include tabs for fitting the cube together. Step 2: Cut out the cube, and on the reverse side of cardstock score all the internal

Recycling paper: Little Golden Books Shower, Pinwheel Favors
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Gift presents for kids: Little Golden Books Shower, Pinwheel Favors Paper crafts for kids Since we knew there were going to be a good amount of kids at our Little Golden Books shower, I figured making them their own favors might 1.) make them feel special and more importantly, 2) keep them entertained for a few minutes. Well, I don’t know if they felt special or not but the only reason they were entertained by my cute little handmade pinwheels is because
Recycling paper: fall flower tag tutorial
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It's almost Thanksgiving, and if you're going to someone else's house for dinner, maybe you should think about bringing a hostess gift. For example: a jar of homemade jam and a Fall-ish dishcloth. Your host will think you're so thoughtful! Even if you're not thoughtful, here's a cute way to dress up a simple gift: the flower tag. We showed you tons of flowers during Flower Week, but this is one we didn't have time for. So here you go! Recycling
Craft project: Fashion paper dolls
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Craft project: Fashion paper dolls Paper craft for kids A super fun project for I think especially girls, but I could be totally wrong :)... make your own fashion paper dolls. Teri from Giddy Giddy came up with this nice idea and right here she tells us exactly how to do it... Source: bkids.typepad.com
Craft flowers for gifts and more: Paper Plate Flowers tutorial
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Craft flowers for gifts and more: Paper Plate Flowers tutorial Paper flower tutorial Flowers from paper plates? Well why not, right? And very often one has a few plates left over which is the perfect excuse to make some festive flowers.....great for a birthday party or outdoor entertaining, or a fun gift topper. As you can imagine, it's possible to use a paper plate in many ways, three of which I've photographed for you here. The large flower on the right is made
Valentine gifts: Silhouette Tutorial and 2 Free Valentine Designs
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Valentine gifts: Silhouette Tutorial and 2 Free Valentine Designs Making card Using Adobe Photoshop Elements, I created a heart shape that I imported into Silhouette Studio. Using the auto-trace feature, I created a heart. I resized the heart to my desired size, and then created an internal offset using the corner option. Then I selected the 2 hearts and right clicked on "create compound path". Next, I copied the single heart again. Then duplicated it 3 times. I resized the hearts so that I
Gift presents for kids: fishy fishy tutorial
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I made a plastic set to play with in water (a bucket, bath, pan, paddling pool). And another set to play with on dry land. All you need is a stick, some thread (or string/wool), a magnet, some paperclips and some paper or plastic for the fish. Click on the ‘read more’ link below for more details. By the way, if you make any of my projects, let me know and I will add you to the ‘you create’ list on the
Valentine craft with heart: paper crafts
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Did you know you can make great invisible ink from lemon juice? Armed with this new bit of knowledge I put my thinking cap on and came up with the idea that invisible ink + message in bottle = cool valentines day gift! The invisible ink bit is easy…simply squeeze a lemon and use the juice to write a message on a piece of white paper. I don’t have a dip pen so just ended up using a q-tip (cotton bud). Then you need to find a
Unique gifts for lover and more: Paperboard Mystery Message
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Unique gifts for lover and more: Paperboard Mystery Message Recycling ideas I am thrilled to announce that I am guest blogging over at Whip up today! Kathreen has an absolutely lovely site filled with all sorts of crafty goodies and fun things to explore. I am honored to be included among her guest bloggers. She also just started producing these great mini-mags chock to the brim with all sorts of entertaining kids activities and crafts. Check the latest one out here! So, here is a little