Chinese New Year is almost here! To celebrate the year of the rooster, here is an easy origami / paper rooster tutorial. This easy paper craft is ideal for kids, teachers, classrooms, parents, and homeschooling. It’s quick, fun, and allows for creativity. Plus, it stands, and we all love standing paper models, right? Happy Chinese…
I am so happy to have the opportunity to collaborate with Good Housekeeping again. The folks there are the greatest! Check out all of the napkin folding tutorials that we created. Which napkin fold is YOUR favorite? I’m kind of in love with the napkin fish now. 🙂 Watch the behind the scenes footage below! Learn to…
It’s Easter craft time! For this month’s craft challenge, I made an Easter Egg Slingshot Game for kids. The game involves slinging eggs into a Easter bunny’s mouth, and uses a canvas, plastic Easter eggs, Easter grass, water color, and a few other materials. Hope you enjoy this Easter craft idea! Let me know what…
In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to fold an Origami Rabbit or Origami Bunny Hat / Bookmark! Make it small, and it’s an origami bookmark. Make it big, and it’s an origami hat! This DIY project requires one square sheet of paper. The one that I’m using in this tutorial is a 3-inch square.…
In this video, I’ll show you how to make a traditional Origami Basket with a Handle! Customize the Origami Basket even more by adding stickers, writing names, and just be-dazzling it! This is a fun, easy paper craft for kids. It also holds a fair amount of candy (I used six-inch squares, but you can…
Make your very own Trick-or-Treat Origami Candy Box / Holder this Halloween! This origami candy box is great for storing little candies or treats for your trick-or-treaters this year. But they can really be used as party favors, or decoration, for any time of the year. 🙂 The DIY paper box requires 2 sheets of…
Napkin folding! Set your next table with THIS! Perfect for Easter, and bunny lovers. 🙂
Here’s a wonderful little orb for decoration. Reminds me of an Easter egg, so I’ll file this under “Easter crafts.” 🙂 HINT: In this video, I made 8 arches, but you can opt to cut more if you want your orb to stretch lower to the ground, and to be more elongated, in general. It’ll…
This star-shaped treat holder is perfect for any occasion, and delightful to hand out at parties. It’ll keep little knickknacks in place, too (i.e. rings, earrings, clips, and such). 🙂 ** DIMENSIONS ** I used a 6″ x 6″ square to make the Star Candy Holder. TOP VIEW: The completed origami candy holder is approximately…
Happy Spring! Or should I say “Hoppy Spring.” Yes, bad joke! 🙂 These bunnies look great with Post-it notes! Design: Stephen O’Hanlon, http://www.fishgoth.com/origami/