DIY PAPER: PAPER WINGS

17 February 2012

DIY PAPER: PAPER WINGS – Costume

Happy Friday! We’re making paper costumes for Mardi Gras and I wanted to share with you!

Our children go to a French school where they celebrate, “Carnival.” (Mardi Gras/Fat Tuesday) This year, our kids wanted to wear animal costumes but, I didn’t have time to get out my sewing machine. I started thinking about both my love craft paper and for a way for the kids to personalize a costume themselves. These wings are pure craft-paper and, once constructed, our daughter had so much fun coloring them. I hope you will, too! I think we’ll hang them up, as art work, on her bedroom wall once complete. (Great for rainy days,parties and Halloween, too)
See the cutting and assembly instructions below.

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Refer to the above photos for additional help.

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SUPPLIES:
Craft
Paper
Scissors
Glue
Crayons, glitter or paint for finishing touches
DIY PAPER WINGS HOW TO:
See the above photos and illustrations for cutting and assembly instructions.Once the wings are complete:
1) Cut two tubes of wrist sized, paper.
2) Tape these, with paper tape,* to the interior, top of the wings
3) Using the same paper tape, tape the wings together in the middle.I used double layers of tape to adhere these two sides.
(* I prefer matching paper tape but, any strong masking tape will work.)

Other PAPER PROJECTS YOU MIGHT LIKE:
Make Paper Dresses (not pictured below)
FISH AND BUTTERFLY PROJECTS (with template)
TRAVEL JOURNALS
ORIGAMI BOXES
MARDI GRAS ICE LANTERNS

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(Mardi Gras: MARDI GRAS ICE LANTERNS) Not pictured, but so much fun to make!

Something you might like:
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