Paper Crafts for Children

For Valentines day today here in New Zealand I had one waiting on each of my colleagues desks for when they got in – they somehow guessed who the paper folding cutting and glueing person was that made them!!

This is so much fun, and easy!! I demonstrated this simple technique and I was then amazed by how many different flowers the children came up with! I have also made a more detailed worksheet of the steps in case that is easier for you to work with.

	Start with a square piece of paper and fold it into a triangle three times.
	With the longest side on the right, and the corner that was the middle of the square of paper pointing down, fold the point on the left over so the sides line up like pictured.
	Cut off the triangle at the top above the edge of the folded paper.
	Draw a half petal shape starting at the top corner of the triangle and ending on the long edge.
	Cut along the outline you have drawn. But make sure you do not cut through all of the long edge of the triangle. Ease the flower open.
	Layer up with some more folded cut out flowers.