Folding a Kintsugi Paper Wheel and an Origami Mobile
Safety Warning
Be careful when using hot glue/glue gun.
Materials
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colored paper, magazines, or scrap paper
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scissors
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wooden frame
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nylon string
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ribbon
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metallic gold paint
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paint brush
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thumbtacks
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unsharpened pencils with erasers intact
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beads
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ruler
Instructions
KINTSUGI PAPER WHEEL
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Use a ruler to trace and measure 6x6 inch boxes on to sheets of colored paper and magazines.
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Using a brush and gold paint, paint lines on the paper that mimic the cracks similar to the kintsugi. Once the paint dries, you can now draw, cut, and fold them.
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Taking the square papers, place a dot right at the very center of each. Then, with your ruler as a guide, draw diagonal lines from the tips of the paper to half an inch from the center dot.
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Using these lines as a guide, cut along them to end up with flaps you can fold.
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Starting at one flap, I’m going to poke a hole at the left hand side using a thumbtack. Then move to the next flap and do the same. Keep turning until you’ve punched a hole on all four sides. These will be the ones you will fold along to make your pinwheel
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Now you’re going to fold the part of the flaps with the hole punched through it. Using the thumbtack, hold together the folded corners by pinning together the pieces.
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Poked a hole through an eraser head using the same thumbtack and attach the head. Make sure to leave a little space so that your pinwheel has space to spin!
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ORIGAMI MOBILE
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Fold colored pieces of paper and magazine cutouts into the shape of butterflies and birds.
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Poke holes through the origami butterflies and birds.
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Insert a bead through the nylon and tie it securely. After that, I thread the origami into the string through the hole that you made and repeat the same process until you completed all the elements
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Tie your origami garlands onto your wooden frame.
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Finally, add a ribbon handle that can be used to hang your mobile.