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Weekend Activity: Create an Origami Christmas tree

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With the holidays almost around the corner maybe its a good time to practice some new skills. How about creating some Origami Christmas Trees.

The Origami Resource Center has a series of example folding instruction for you to begin with.

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Weekend Activity: Make some Paper Planes

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Here’s a great way to create a F-16 Falcon Paper Airplane. The Amazing Paper Airplanes web site (link below) has detailed instructions plus a video and a PDF file for the coloring.

The Amazing Paper Airplanes web site has many more plans and instructions including the F-117A Nighthawk, Space Shuttle and Concorde.

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DIY: Two more ideas for things made out of paper

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Two more additions to our loose series on great paper craft sites – guitars and disasters…

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DIY: More Papercrafts

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If you enjoyed the “Readymech paper crafts” particularly those from “Fwis” (our favorite designs) have a look at “Cubecraft” that is home to loads of fantastic paper craft templates for free download…

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Weekend activity: Create some paper toys

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If its raining or its too cold (or too hot) or whichever other reason you have not to go outside here are some unusual paper toys that surely will impress your friends (or kids).

Many of these toys can be made with just a few sheets of paper, scissors and some tape, others like for example the the Paper Rose or Flower paper (see link section below) are more elaborate but should still be mastered by everyone.

The toys we chosen for this article are more like the ones you would create when you sit together with a group of friends or want to show your kids something old Daddy or Mom can do. There are of course many others that use templates to be printed on photo paper, cut with an art knife and then glued together. We provide links for these too…

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DIY: US Candidate Puppets

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Finally you don’t have to shout at your TV anymore during Presidential Candidate debates. Get interactive and become the one who pulls the strings behind them. Or put a completely new twist to political education of your kids: Politics at your finger tips.

Anyway, at “Fold US Candidate” you can download PDF templates for finger puppets of the US Presidential candidates. Cut, fold, glue them together and you can hold your own presidential debates…”

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