Alice's DIY handmade origami Christmas decorations ...
Origami wreaths are very easy to make and involve nothing more than some scissors and scraps of paper. I re-used some magazines, catalogues, old maps, and old wrapping paper. A nice little task to do when watching all those Christmas movies!
I got my instructions from the excellent step by step tutorial here :: There are also a lot more designs; I found a useful page here:

To summarise this is the method that I used:
1. Cut out eight rectangular pieces of paper that are half as wide as they are long. So in this instance I used paper 4cm by 8cm.
2. Fold each piece once in half along the length.
3. With the folded edges uppermost fold the top left and right corners down at right angles.
4. Then fold the piece in half across the width so that the flaps of the folded corners are inside.
5. Now you are left with a square end and a pointed end. The top of the square end has two pockets. Take each piece and poke the pointed ends into the pockets of another.
When you have linked all eight together you will have your wreath.

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Comments

[April]

I've been on a "make things from junk mail" kick lately and these will look great next to my other junk mail ornaments. Thanks!

[kudzu]

i found you while doing a search for paper garlands/chains. thanks you, i can so do this!
kudzu

kudzukween.blogspot.com

[Macy Dawn]

I heart these!

Poesia Design

[erin]

i have to make these!! eep!

[Chris]

Beautiful items. Your blog is so clean and well done!

[Michelle]

So pretty! Very fun to make.

[Online Shopping Chick]

Love these! Not only am I going to print out the instructions in order to make them but I'm writing a blog post and linking to this. Thank you for the great craft project!

[Dallas]

Jealous. I have never been one with origami, and I wish I was this second.

dallas
http://www.dillydallas.blogspot.com

[diana]

Oh, these are nice! I put up some origami this year as well for our girl's advent calendar. Big hit!

[Rachel]

So pretty! I love ornaments that can be easily adapted to any decor. I'll be linking.

[Melly G]

My new favorite craft is repurposed craft. I think its so cool to do this at home with the magazines that will eventually be thrown away. I might get these going for the Latino holiday Little Christmas.

[Stéphanie M.]

Hi ! So many beautiful things on this blog. I come very often. Maybe you'll visit my blog one of these days...i've made christmas decorations with paper...greetings from a french papercut artist...

[ellie]

beautiful!

[Maria]

I saw these done on Martha Stewart. They're very cute :)

[luphia]

these are so cute!