Here are paper chain crafts activities and instructions to make beautiful paper chains arts projects by using paper cutting techniques with pieces of paper. Find paper chains crafts below.
Make a Simple Paper Chain
Cut colored pages from an old magazine into strips 1/2 inch wide. Then cut these strips into 4 or 5 inch lengths. Paste both ends of a strip together, making a circle. Put the next strip through this circle and paste the ends of the second one together, and so on, until the children have a chain as long as they want it. See the picture above. A lot of these chains make nice homemade decorations for a Christmas tree. Make these chains out of any kind of paper. Colored construction paper or gold or silver metallic paper is effective as party decorations.
Cutting Paper Dolls and People Chains
Fold a long strip of paper in half, in half again, and so forth, until the strip is half its height or thinner. Draw the person the way that you see in the illustration above....just half of a person...with the middle of the person being on the fold...and then start cutting. The people can be colored with crayons, paints, colored pencils, markers, or whatever you please. For a variety in this craft, you can try pasting a string together with outer hands attached to form a circle of dancers.
More Paper Doll Chain Ideas
There are many times when a string of paper dolls is needed—in making posters, decorating your classroom, illustrating a Bible verse, teaching a historic story, etcThese can be hinged together for illustrative purposes, such as a poster, handwork, or illustrated songs. The directions and sketches will be basic to cutting out various sizes of paper dolls. Each cutting will yield 4 dolls.
Fold an 81/2"x11" sheet of paper in half 3 times. Start at fold and cut out, being careful to leave hands on folds so dolls will be joined.
Again...Fold an 81/2"x11" sheet of paper in half 3 times. Cut out dolls for a family—cut apart so each child has a father, mother, boy and girl doll. Fasten together with Scotch tape.
One more time...Fold an 81/2"x11" sheet of paper in half 3 times.Cut out boy and girl dolls to represent children of other lands. Children can make these for use with words of song "World Thinking Day", or for Sunday Schools..."Jesus Loves the Little Children."
Another Paper Chain Making Craft
Here is another kind of paper chain that is fun and colorful and easy to make. Be sure to use brightly colored paper—colored tissue, gold or silver wrapping paper, or decorative Christmas wrappings. Cut a strip of paper 2 1/2 inches wide and as long as possible, about 25 to 35 inches. To make longer chains, paste the edges of the finished chains together. Fold the paper in half lengthwise. Starting from the fold, make circular cuts as shown by the heavy lines on the drawing in Figure a, pictured above. Then in between the cuts already made, cut in from the opposite side, as shown by the dotted lines.
When through cutting, stretch out the chain and it will be almost twice as long as the original length, as seen in figure b above.
How to Make Paper Chain Anchors
This is a great crafts project for preschoolers, toddlers, Kindergarteners and other young children.To make this anchor, you will need 10 strips of 1/2" x 4" black (or other color) construction paper, paste, and one piece of black (or other color) construction paper (4"x5"), and scissors. Start off by printing out this printable anchor picture or use the diagram above (a) to make an anchor in a larger or smaller size. Cut out this anchor.Now you can paste the strips of paper together to form a chain. Paste anchor to last link in chain (sketch b).
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