Once the month of March comes almost everyone is ready for some nice spring weather and colors. Easter is quickly approaching with all those beautifully decorated eggs in pastel yellow, pink, lavender, green and blue. Placing a couple of these paper garlands around the house will give it a nice spring look.
Paper Garland Materials
- These paper garlands can be made using many different materials. One of the easiest is to make them by using colored cupcake paper liners. These can be found packaged in an assortement of colors. Choose some soft yellows, pinks, blues and greens for spring. Using cupcake liners of different sizes and placing the smaller ones at the ends of each group also creates a nice effect. Very small and dainty garlands can be made using small candy or chocolate wrappers.
- Spring themed scrapbook papers in solid colors or patterns can also be used by cutting out many same size circles and trimming the edges of the circles with decorative scissors.
- Glitter glue around the edges of the papers can be used to add some sparkle.
- Beads and pearls can also be strung together with the paper. Pearls placed at the ends of each group give the garland a very delicate look.
- Colored bakers' twine or regular white string is used to make the garland.
Paper Garland Instructions
- Thread the string through a needle and tie a knot at the end.
- Pierce a hole in the center of each cupcake liner or paper you are using and add approximetely 10 papers to each group. More paper can be used if you want it to look puffier. Remember to tie a knot after each group.
- Make as many groups as you want the length of the garland to be. It is helpful to first separate and flatten out each cupcake liner individualy. Also have all the groups ready before you start threading. Groups can be all of one color or you can alternate with white. The garland can be multi-colored or one single color.
This is an easy craft to make plus it can be adapted for different occasions. For example, use only bright green and you have a St. Patrick's Day garland; red for Valentine's Day and orange for Halloween. Combine green and red paper to make a Christmas garland or use silver and gold metallic paper for a more sophisticated party garland.
Using animal or flower shaped paper cutters you can custom make a garland for a boy's or a girl's birthday. Place the cut out shapes at the ends of each group so they are easily seen. There is really no limit to what you can add to embellish the garland as long as it isn't too heavy. So, have fun and see what you can create.
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