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Halloween: Owl Mask

Great Horned Owl Mask

Difficulty: Easy

Materials:

Heavyweight paper
Scissors
Clear paper tape

Directions:

1. Print and cut out Owl Mask:

Great Horned Owl Mask

2. Cut out holes for eyes.

3a. Overlap tab as shown and secure with tape.

3b. Repeat on other side.

3c. From the backside, you can see how the tabs overlap, and how this creates a rounded look.

4a. Crease owl beak along center fold, and secure with tape as shown.

4b. From the underside, you can see how this creates a three dimensional beak.

5. Fold in beak tabs as shown. Turn beak over.

6a. Apply tape to beak as shown...

6b. And secure to Owl Mask as shown, using the white areas on the mask as a guide.

Have a safe and Happy Halloween!

MORE HALLOWEEN CRAFTS AND ORIGAMI FOR KIDS

Easter Chick Box

An Easter Chick Box to print and fold...perfect for chocolate treats!

Difficulty: Easy

Directions: Follow directions for Shamrock Box.

Happy Easter!

©2010 Tammy Yee
All rights reserved.

Crafts: Easter Bunny Box

Here's another fun box, perfect for holding chocolate eggs.

This one was designed by my son, Cosmo, using an old program, AppleWorks.

Instructions:
1. Print and cut out Bunny Box along outer solid line.

2. Fold along tabs and sides as shown.

3. Secure side tabs to inside of box with tape or glue.

Print, Fold, and Decorate an Easter Basket

Great for Easter favors, fun for tots to decorate!

Difficulty: Easy

Directions:

Print and cut out Easter Basket, Basket Handle, and Decorations.
Fold and assemble Basket along solid black lines. Tape or glue tabs.
Attach Basket Handle, to desired length, with tape or glue.
Decorate with Bunny, Eggs and Heart.

St. Patrick's Day Boxes: Celtic Knots and Leprechauns

Two print and fold patterns for St. Patrick's Day boxes:

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

Saint Patrick's Day Shamrock Box

Difficulty: Easy

Directions:

1a. Print and cut out Saint Patrick's Day Shamrock box along outer solid line.

1b. Make cuts on the "shamrock halves" as shown, along the heavy black lines only. Do not cut beyond the points indicated by the red dots in the illustration.

2a - d. With printed side facing down, fold and unfold along the solid black lines as indicated, to form the sides of the box.

2e. Your shamrock box should be creased as shown.

3a-c. Repeat the process along the outer lines to form the lid of the box.
3d. Your box should now be creased as shown.

4a. Take note of the diagonal lines marked in red.

4b. As you fold the sides of the box up as shown, you will make creases along these diagonal lines to form the corners of the box.

4c. Secure the box by interlocking the shamrock halves along the cuts you made in step 1b.

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

Valentine Bunny Box

Some Bunny Loves You....Print and fold a Valentine Bunny and fill it with treats.

Folding Directions:

Happy Valentine's Day!

Valentine Heart Ornament

Assemble this geometric model using pre-printed equilateral triangles.

Difficulty: Easy

Materials:
20 Heart Equilateral Triangles
Tape or glue

Directions:

1. Print full page of Heart triangles.

2. Cut out pieces along solid, outer circle. You should have a total of 20 circles.

3. Prepare your triangles by folding the white "tabs" forward as shown. Repeat on all three sides of each triangle.
4. Use the white tabs to tape or glue 5 triangles together as shown. Repeat so that you have two "ball ends" of 5 triangles each.

(At this point, you may choose to tape the two ball ends together and decorate with a ribbon to make a Valentine ornament, or proceed to assemble a ball)

5. Tape or glue 5 triangles to each "ball end" as shown.

6. Tape or glue the two ends together to assemble your model as shown...
OR you can construct a star-shaped ornament by glueing the two ends back to back.

Happy Valentine's Day!

Crafts: Boy's Day Kite, Koi Nobori

Make a Koi Nobori, a Boy's Day carp kite on May 5th. Traditionally, a koi is flown for every male in the household, with the largest carp on the top representing the father.

Directions

1. Select your koi, print, and cut along outline.

2. Fold your koi in half along the vertical line, and glue along top, leaving the "mouth" open.

3. Use a hole puncher to punch holes to either side of the mouth, and attach strings.

Some Bunny Loves You Box

Difficulty: Easy

Directions:

1. Print and cut out Bunny Loves You Box along solid lines, including tabs.

2. Fold along dashed lines.

3. Glue tabs, using sample illustration as a guide.

Chinese Lion Paper Bag Puppet

Kung Hee Fat Choy is the Chinese greeting for the New Year. Cut and past a festive Chinese Lion paper bag puppet to celebrate the new year!

Find objects in this illustration beginning with the letter "C." From the children's book, Island Style Alphabet, written and illustrated by Tammy Yee.

Materials:

Printed Chinese Lion Puppet
Paper Lunch Bag(s)
Crayons
Scissors
Glue

Instructions:

1. Print and cut Chinese Lion puppet along solid lines. Color.

2. Lift "flap" of paper bag and glue mouth as shown.

3. Glue Chinese Lion head onto top of closed flap as shown. If you slip your hand into the paper bag, you should be able to open and close your puppet's mouth.

Happy New Year!

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