Crafts & Activities / 9 December, 2019 / Nanny Anita

3D Paper Baubles

For the past few years I have made paper decorations to decorate the playroom. They aren’t normally ones I involve my charges with, as I like to surprise them on the 1^st December with it all. This year I have been making 3D paper baubles.

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To make your own 3D paper baubles you will need:

• Paper
• Double sided sticky tape
• Scissors
• Thread
• Pencil

Of course, typically, the moment I go to make these my trusty circular hole punch died! So instead I had to draw around a jam jar lid and cut them all out.

You will need 12 circles for each bauble.

Next fold each circle in half.

When you have done that you will need to stack them together. If the paper you are using is the same colour on both sides, then you won’t have to worry about how you stack them. If like my paper, you have a design on one side and plain on the other, you will need to stack them like the picture above.

Make them into a neat pile and tightly tie a piece of string around it. You may want to tape it in place as well. Make sure the excess string is at the top; you’ll use that to hang it up with at the end.

Turn over the first half (like a page in a book) and on the back add some double sticky tape to the bottom 1/3^rd of the circle, then fold the next half over onto it. You may need to experiment with just how much tape you need. Too little, and it is likely to come unstuck.

Add the next piece of tape to the top 1/3^rd.

Continue doing this for each half. When you get to stick the last piece of tape down you will have created your 3D paper bauble.

You make need to adjust them slightly to make the segments space out evenly.

Top Tip

If they keep coming unstuck, use a piece of normal tape and stick it over the edge of the two halves.

I think these 3D paper baubles were the perfect touch for the playroom decorations this year. Not too time consuming to make, although it would have been quicker it my hole punch hadn’t died.

If you enjoyed these 3D paper baubles be sure to check out my easy paper christmas decorations, paper spiral decorations, and quilled snowflakes.

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