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What You’ll Need:

• Green paper in light and dark colours
• Yellow paper
• Pink paper
• Scissors
• Yarn
• Glue
• Hole punch
• Flower punch

Begin by cutting an 8.5″ x 11″ piece of green paper in half and then folding those pieces in half again. Cut a heart shape out of the folded paper, cutting it out from the creased side.

On the curved edge of the folded heart, cut out four teardrop shapes. These should get gradually smaller the closer to the pointed tip.

Keep cutting out leaves until you have about two dozen and then make holes on the wide end of the leaves with a hole punch.

Repeat the first step with light green paper. This time cut a half football shape from the folded edge of the paper.

Almost finished this beautiful Tropical Party Decor!

This time, cut out five thin, sharp curves from the unfolded edge of the half football.

When all your leaves are ready, use the hole punch to make small circles in the bottom of the leaves.

Once more, follow the first step with yellow paper this time. Cut a half oval from the folded edge of the creased paper.

Using the scrapes left over from cutting out the leaves, make pineapple fronds by cutting out curved leaves.

To assemble the pineapples, attach two of the yellow ovals together. Add two more (four ovals per pineapple in total) and then glue the fronds onto the flat back of the pineapple.

Punch flowers from pink paper and either use a punch or scissors to make small yellow stems. Glue the stems in the centre of the flowers.

String the leaves, alternating light and dark, onto a piece of yarn. Add a pineapple on every four or five leaves. We made two dozen of each colour of the leaves and ten pineapples which gave us two 4′ garlands.

Lastly, glue the little pink flowers onto the leaves. Sprinkle them out at random in between the pineapples and then the garlands are complete!

Love our Tropical party decor, but not quite ready for your long weekend luau? Try adding our Colour Pop Coasters for extra decor and serve our Peach Moscato Cocktails.

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A huge bonus for this craft is that it only needs three materials – paper, scissors and glue. It couldn’t be easier to create a stunning November 11th decoration!

What You’ll Need:

• Red, orange, yellow, black and green construction paper
• Petal Template
• Hot glue gun
• Scissors
• Wall tack or removable glue dots

Start by cutting six large flower petals from the red paper using the free template provided. These should be about 5″ wide by 6″ long.

Cut a slit into the bottom edge of each petal, about 1.5″ deep.

Slightly fold one of the split edges over the other and then glue in place. This will lift the petals and give them depth.

First glue three of the petals together to form a centre point and then add three more petals to make a flower. Glue in place.

Use a small dish or other round object to make a circle from the black paper. Snip the edges of the circle all the way around and then use your fingers to ‘curl’ or fold the cuts to make them stand up.

Paper Poppy Wall Decor

Repeat the step to make a matching yellow circle.

Glue first the yellow and then the black circle to the centre of the flowers.

Repeat all of these steps to make some medium sized poppies. These will be about 3″ wide by 4″ long.

And one more time to make the smallest poppies, this time in orange. The size of these ones are around 2″ wide by 3″ long.

Make some leaves from green paper. Begin by folding the paper in half and then cutting a long, slim oval on the fold. With the paper still folded, cut small indents along the curved edge. Unfold the leaves and glue some together in small bunches to go around the flowers.

We hope you loved this Paper Poppy Wall Decor craft as much as we do! If you’re looking for more ways to celebrate November 11th, check out our other crafts, like our Toddler Poppy Art or Lemon Poppy Seed Cookie Recipe.

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A huge bonus with this project is you don’t have to take it down on February 15! By choosing unique patterns and colours, this pretty triptych can fit into any room in your home. It’s also low-cost. Cheap, easy, quick and reusable –the perfect kind of holiday project? However you decide to display it, it’s sure to bring you a lovin’ feeling just in time for Valentine’s Day.

What you’ll need:

• 3 square canvases
• Paint that complements your patterned paper
• Patterned scrapbook paper, wrapping paper or wall paper
• Scissors
• Mod Podge
• Foam brush and paint brush

Paint the canvases in your base colour and let dry.

Cut three matching hearts out of your floral paper.

Use the Mod Podge and a foam brush to glue and seal the hearts in place. Be sure to spread the glue on top of and underneath the paper hearts.

In 15 minutes you  have a beautiful floral triptych to display or give away, we’d love to see your take on this craft so please share with us in the comments. Happy crafting!

For more Valentine’s Day decorations certainly check out our Heart Cards Garland.

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You’ll need a very sharp retractible knife for this project…and a steady hand!   Also, a cutting board is needed under the paper.  I got one from the local dollar store, I also picked up the wooden dowels too.  You could also use BBQ skewers as well, the stick needs to be long enough to stand inside whichever cup or vase you are using.  Using bright coloured paper is a MUST for creating these Cinco de Mayo papers…because you can’t have fiesta decorations without COLOUR!!

Cinco de Mayo Fiesta Papel Picado Decoration 

What you’ll need

• Wooden dowels (small) or BBQ skewers
• Bright coloured card stock
• A sharp retractible knife
• Hole punch
• Decorative scissors
• Cutting board
• Pencil
• Hot glue gun
• Ruler

First, cut your card stock into 4×4″ squares.  Then draw your design lightly in pencil. Focus on creating small shapes within the square. Cut hearts, circles, petals, flowers near each other.  Next, place the paper onto the cutting board and CAREFULLY cut out the design using the sharp retractible knife. Take your time to be sure you are getting straight, crisp cuts (and don’t throw those cut outs out).  

Finally, glue the paper squares onto the wooden dowels or BBQ skewers, set aside to dry.

Remember the parts of the paper we cut out? The reason for that is to use them as confetti for your table top! Spread them out where you’re serving your food and drinks.

Perfect for your festive celebration these Cinco de Mayo Fiesta Papel Picado Decoration are bright, happy and colourful. Place these Mexican fiesta party decorations into cups, vases or bottles.  You could even use them as stir sticks!  So grab some tequila, your favourite mix and get ready to party!!  

Need more Cinco de Mayo ideas? Certainly check out our bright and colourful Hola Fiesta Welcome Sign.

Happy Crafting!

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