9 posts tagged “paper”

My RSS Aggregator is just full of papercraft ideas thanks to a certain magazine, so if you don't mind I'm going to dump them all in here at once.  Ready?

Gardening:

• My wife likes  buying those little plastic trays to help seedlings grow, but perhaps this pot made out of newspaper would be a more eco-friendly way to do it.
• Of course I tend to kill any plant I touch.  Perhaps it would be better if I just made one of these papercraft models of houseplants instead.

• I like to snap pictures of exemplary student work, but if it's 3D I sometimes run into the problem of having a distracting background and/or difficult to control light sources.  Next time, I might just build a papercraft macro studio!  (They say it's an origami studio, but I was always told traditional origami has to start with 1 square paper.  This design doesn't have t o start with a square to work well.)

• My wallet that's made out of duct tape is holding up quite well, but when it's eventually worn out I might go with this simple paper wallet instead.  3 cuts and a bunch of folds is all you need!  (And it's not as sticky as a wallet made out of tape, either.)

• Do you remember back when Mario didn't have to go everywhere with a cast of about 50 of his closest friends?  Bring back the days of the first Super Mario Bros. game with these two papercraft models!  (World 1-1 & World 1-1 End)

My Mom's birthday is tomorrow.  She's already gotten a card from me, but if I had forgotten I most assuredly would have resorted to making my own.

Either that, or printing out one of these.  They're a long way from that Print Shop garbage I used to play around with.

Of course you can always tear/cut apart an existing envelope and trace it, but why not try out this printable template from Jessica Jones?

I like her idea of printing it on patterned paper, then cutting it out.  (Hm, I've got some extra card stock lying around...)  I think I might even go one step further and print it on the back of some photo paper, of course with a photo on the other side.

Envelope

OK, so you can make them bigger than a matchbook - the thing is that it's shaped like a matchbook, and it's kind of easy to do.

Jen Stark has done some awesome stuff with paper sculpture.  After you've watched the short video on her splash page click "enter" and check out her sculpture section to see what I mean.

Ok, only one more link before bed, just in case I DON'T have a snow day tomorrow....

Here's a neat way to marbleize paper that I haven't tried before.  Of course I wouldn't do this with the students I have now (can you imagine kindergarteners melting crayons?), but on my own time?  I think that might be worth an attempt.

While it doesn't follow the strict rules of origami (the paper you use isn't square), this is a neat little pdf for those of us who like to carry business cards around "just in case."

'Tis the season to get crafty!  Here's a holiday decoration most of us should be able to make:

Tired of making the same old flat paper snowflakes?  Try this pattern on for size!  Any papercraft can be made better through curling.