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How To: Make Modular Origami Octahedron 12 Sonobe Units
Learn how to make modular origami octahedron with 12 sonobe units. What you need: 12 square pieces of paper with size 9cm x 9cm.
How To: Make or Fold a Dollar Bill into a T-Shirt
Learn how to fold a dollar bill into a cool looking T-Shirt. Great idea for a tip at a bar or restaurant.
How To: Make a Paper Airplane Jet with Landing Gear
Learn how to make a cool paper air plane jet with landing gear. This one will fly far too.
How To: Make a Paper Plane Jet with Cool Wings
Easy to follow video that will show you how to easily make a paper plane jet that flies far, with cool wings too.
How To: Make an Origami Spinning Top
Easy and fun! just watch and learn!
How To: Make Your Own Truong Sa Sovereign Marker from Vietnam
Create your own Truong Sa Sovereign Marker (Vietnam) without spending large amounts of time and money. The approximate time to make this is 15 to 30 minutes. It contains 10 big parts. Once you've completed it, you can use it for photography or just as an ornament.
How To: Make 3D Glasses
An easy way to make your own 3D glasses using a printed template, two plastic transparent sheets, and paper glue. You can download the template here.
How To: Make a Paper Blowgun with Darts(Easy)
Blowguns can be really fun and accurate if they're made well. The darts hurt even without 'upgrades' so I really don't recommend adding needles to the points.
News: Pencil Holder from Paper Towel Rolls
The pencil holder's design uses about two paper towel rolls, but thicker than what you would usually see. This pencil holder has 3 compartments with all different heights. Corrugated cardboard bottom and used Elmer's white glue, a trusted brand. It could hold more than 35 pencils.
How To: DYI Presents for Your Reunion
In an increasingly mobile and globalized world, it’s not uncommon to lose touch with people we were once close with. Juggling between job demands, family responsibilities and our own personal needs, it’s often hard to put the time to keep all of our relationships going. Nevertheless, every now and then we get to reminiscing and feel the time has come for a reunion with people from the past.
How To: Make Your Own Illuminated Vintage Movie Marquee
Watching movies will always be one of my favorite forms of entertainment. I can spend an entire day watching movies and not feel the slightest bit guilty about it. You can learn from movies, so don't ever let anyone tell you that you're wasting time.
How To: How to Assemble Your LA Paper Toy (DeviantART Related)
Video: . A fun loving character from an art site called DeviantART. This is widely used in comments across the Deviant art forums and comments.
How To: How to make your own DANBO
Create your very one DANBO with out spending large amounts of money. The approximate time to make this is 30 minutes to 1 hour. It contains a lot of small part. Once you've completed it, you use it for photography or just as an ornament.
How To: Easy Christmas Tags
Why buy Christmas tags for your presents when they are so easy to make yourself! Here I’ll be showing you how to make simple, easy Christmas Tags out of stuff that you may already have round the house.
News: This DIY Walking Paper Robot Shoots Rubber Bands from Its High-Powered Gatling Gun Arms
One amazing Japanese papercraft enthusiast has built a walking 'robot' that's made of nothing more than paper, rubber bands, and a few wooden shafts for stability. It's been dubbed the 'Paper Robot III,' and even the cogs and gears are made of paper. The creator made a video detailing his entire process, and he's selling kits to make your own for about $40 US, if you're too lazy to do everything from scratch.
How To: Make Incredible Cosplay Armor
You must have went to many comic or movie conventions and seen people in armor costumes that are very expensive to buy. Now you can make one of your own .With this video tutorial you will learn how to create costume armors of your own.
News: This Cardboard Bicycle Cost Only $12 to Make—And It Works!
Stop me if you've heard this one before. A man walks into a bicycle shop, hears about a canoe made of cardboard and is inspired to make an awesome, fully-functional cardboard bicycle. Sound far-fetched? Wait until you hear how his guy actually did it. Israeli entrepreneur Izhar Gafni says that the idea for his method came from Japanese origami. Folding the cardboard increases its strength by 2-3 times, making the material much more durable. Essentially, he made the basic shape for each part w...
How To: Make Paper Flowers from Old Books
Make flowers that don't fade and also expresses your love of books! What You'll Need
How To: Make Art Out of Everyday Objects
After taking a beginner’s art class at my local community college I realized two things: one, art supplies are extremely expensive, and two, I am not talented at painting. Although my painting skills are comparable to those of a five year old, I still enjoy art and being creative. Therefore, I began to look for ways to be creative that didn’t require much skill or too much money.
How To: Make a Heel Klickin' Jitterbug Out of McCormick Vertex Elements
Use geometry to make an adorable and fun heel klickin' friend using McCormick vertex elements! You will need:
How To: Create a tie made out of duct tape
Maybe you're a big fan of duct tape. Maybe you're a big fan of ties. Maybe you're a big fan of duct tape ties. If any of these three things is true, maybe you should check out this guide to making a tie using only duct tape. You can even decorate and color your duct tape tie using more duct tape!
How To: Make a Minecraft creeper head costume out of a cardboard box
Want to dress up like a creeper from Minecraft for Halloween? or just because? You're in luck. Check out this video to learn how to make a great-looking creeper costume out of a paper box. Blockify yourself like a Minecraft mob.
How To: Make Your Own Glass Slipper Out of Tape
This video demonstrates a fun craft activity- shoemaking out of cellophane and tape. Make a mold of any of your shoes that you can decorate however you like. This decorative shoe will be a fun piece of art you can place anywhere in your home or give as a gift.
How To: Make a present-embellished Happy Birthday invitation using Cricut
Let's face it: When it comes to the main Hallmark holidays - Christmas, Valentine's Day, and birthdays - we tend to take the easy way out. Party invitations are usually purchased in bulk at the drugstore, balloons purchased in a value sized bundle, and food catered or also purchased at the store.
How To: Make a handsome cowboy birthday invitation with Cricut
Why ever would you want to throw a cowboy-themed party for your little cowboy? Two words: John Wayne. The epitome of wild West cool and the exemplar of the "strong and silent" type, John Wayne made the cowboy badass. So give your boy the coolest party in the world by creating a cowboy theme.
How To: Make a frog birthday invitation using Cricut
Have a little kiddo obsessed with slimy, swamp-dwelling amphibians? Then throwing a frog-themed birthday bash is perfect for the little fellow. Make sure your frog theme stays unified all the way through from the beginning to the candle blowout by creating these frog invitations.
How To: Craft a block party/BBQ hamburger invitation with Cricut
Some things are too good to keep bottled up. Give your guests a taste of what's to come at your Fourth of July party, BBQ, or slammin' block party by making your invitation look like a hamburger. Who can resists free food, right?
How To: Make a sturdy pepakura Halo 3 helmet using jesmonite
Pepakura is the Japanese word for papercraft. So yes, pepakura does include origami. Specifically, the term refers to 3D models made from paper. And what better contraption to make out of paper than this awesome Halo 3 (XBox 360) helmet? Broken down into its geometric components, this helmet is a life-size replica of the helmets you wear in the game.
News: Your Perfect Snowflake Soulmate
No two snowflakes are alike. The same goes for people. But a snowflake can easily compliment one's own individual charm, although finding your perfect soulmate snowflake is quite a challenge. Or... it was.
How To: Perfectly wrap a Christmas, birthday or party gift using either paper or a bag
This video goes over traditional wrapping - using tissue paper, wrapping paper, ribbons and bows. But if you just can't get the fiddly bits right, or your gift is oddly shaped, then this video will also show you how to use a gift bag!
How To: Craft a white Valentine's Day heart gift box
We adore all the cute little valentines, heart-shaped candies, and heart-embellished gift boxes and gift bags that pop up on shelves around Valentine's Day, but (ironically enough) they lack the heart that makes Valentine's Day presents truly special.
How To: Craft an easy Valentine's Day heart-folded love note
You want your special love notes to your sweetheart to be kept a secret, right? So what better way to toss him/her a sweet sentiment during class than by folding it into a heart?
How To: Craft a super easy quilled Valentine's Day heart
We know you probably haven't quilled anything since fifth grade, but that doesn't mean you should leave this paper curling skill to your tender elementary school years. In fact, quilling adds quite a lovely feminine touch to any project.
How To: Make a fringed paper Valentine's Day flower heart
This daisy Valentine's Day card looks very difficult to make at home, yet its complexity is simply a guise for how easy it is. All you need is variously colored paper (depending on the type of flower you want to make) and a pair of scissors.
How To: Create a Valentine's Day heart card with iris folding
If you're new to iris folding, then let this beautiful Valentine's Day project be your introduction to this complexly layered yet easy to do paper folding style. Iris folding is based on the iris, or opening, of a camera, with multiple layers folding on top of one another until you get to the opening in the center.
How To: Craft a floral "I Love You" Valentine's Day mini album
Valentine's Day is going to be here in less than a month, so make sure you keep all of your photo memories safe by placing them inside this miniature floral "I Love You" Valentine's Day mini album.
How To: Craft a Valentine's Day "Happy Birthday" card
Do you have a friend whose birthday falls on or near Valentine's Day? Then kill two birds with one stone by crafting this Valentine's Day "Happy Birthday" card.
How To: Make a Valentine's Day candy-filled "cake"
While we all know that Valentine's Day is supposed to be about the giving and receiving of love and affection, let's face it: These days, the Hallmark holiday is more about the giving and receiving of chocolate and sugar high-inducing candy.
How To: Make a set of beautiful, French inspired note cards
You can make these cards into a set and give them away as a gift, or send them out one at a time as thank you notes, invitations or any other sort of stationery. They have a lovely French vintage feel!
How To: Quill a leaf shape easily for paper crafts
Quilling is one crafting skill you probably picked up in fourth grade and then never touched again. But it's time to bring out those long paper strips once again. Quilling is one of the easiest ways to add complex and beautiful decorations to greeting cards and other paper projects.