Easy Paper Crafts
Paper Weaving for Adults: A Woven Paper Mat, Step by Step
Cut slits in one sheet, weave strips of a second color through them, and finish with a crisp two-color checkered mat 8 inches square.
Creative Paper Crafts Made Simple
Ciencia Agora shares approachable paper craft tutorials, creative projects and practical techniques for adults who enjoy making things with paper.
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View allNew to paper crafting? These four guides cover paper, tools and the core techniques.
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Paper Crafts for Beginners: Where to Start as an Adult
An adult's orientation to paper crafting: the six core techniques, a small starter kit, and a five-session plan for the first week.
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How to Choose Craft Paper: Weight, Finish and Grain
Weight, finish and grain decide how paper cuts, folds and holds its shape. Here is how to read a pack label and pick the right sheet for each project.
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Paper Craft Tools: What You Need and What Can Wait
Four tools are enough to begin. Here is what to buy first, what to add after a few projects, and which household items can stand in until then.
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Paper Cutting Techniques: Clean Cuts With Scissors and a Craft Knife
How to cut straight lines, smooth curves and sharp inside corners in paper and card, and how to tell whether scissors or a knife is the right tool.
Easy Paper Crafts
How to Make Paper Rosettes (Accordion-Fold Medallions)
Fold a long strip into even pleats, join it into a ring and press it flat. Here is how strip width and length set the size of a paper rosette.
Easy Paper Crafts
How to Make Paper Bookmarks: Three Simple Designs
Three paper bookmarks to make in an evening: a corner pocket, a layered strip with a ribbon hole and a woven strip, each with exact measurements.
Easy Paper Crafts
Easy Paper Crafts for Adults: Relaxing Projects to Try First
Eight low-pressure paper projects for adults, from bookmarks to a woven mat, with rough times and the skill each one builds.
Paper Home Decor
How to Make a Paper Wreath With Layered Leaves
A cardboard ring covered in creased, overlapping paper leaves. Change the colors and the same wreath suits any season.
Paper Home Decor
Paper Wall Art: A Geometric 3D Piece for Your Wall
Sixteen low paper pyramids on a ruled board make a quiet relief that changes with the light. Each module needs two scored lines and one cut.
Paper Home Decor
DIY Paper Lanterns: A Clean, Modern Cut-Paper Lantern
One sheet of cardstock, ruled cuts and a battery LED tea light make a calm, architectural lantern for a shelf or table.
Paper Home Decor
How to Make a Paper Garland: Circles, Flags and Geometric Shapes
Three ways to make a paper garland about six feet long: glued or sewn circles, folded flags on twine and simple geometric shapes.
Card Making
How to Make a Pop-Up Card: The Simple Box Mechanism
Two parallel cuts and three creases make a box that stands up when the card opens. Build a 4.25 × 5.5 in card with three stepped pop-ups and a clean cover.
Card Making
How to Make a Paper Envelope to Fit Any Card
Fold an envelope around the card itself from a single square of paper. One short calculation gives the size of square for any card, with no template needed.
Card Making
Card Making for Beginners: Supplies, Sizes and Your First Card
Standard card sizes, the right cardstock and the simple layered structure behind most handmade cards, with exact measurements for a first 4.25 × 5.5 in card.
Recycled Paper Crafts
Scrap Paper Projects: Ways to Use Up Leftover Paper
Sort offcuts by size, then put them to work: a strip mosaic card front, punched shapes, collage material, test pieces and tags, plus what is not worth keeping.
Recycled Paper Crafts
Magazine Paper Crafts: Rolled Coasters From Old Pages
Fold old magazine pages into narrow strips and coil them into solid, colorful coasters. A slow, satisfying project with a sealed, usable result.
Recycled Paper Crafts
How to Make Handmade Paper From Scrap Paper at Home
Turn scrap paper into new sheets with a blender, a tub and a simple screen. A clear walkthrough of pulping, pulling, couching, pressing and drying.
Recycled Paper Crafts
Book Page Crafts: What to Make From Damaged Old Books
Worn-out books still hold good paper. How to choose a book you can cut without regret, remove pages cleanly, and turn them into envelopes, bookmarks, garlands and more.
Paper Art
Paper Quilling for Beginners: Basic Shapes and a First Design
Learn to roll an even coil, pinch it into the five basic quilling shapes, and assemble a small six-point medallion.
Paper Art
Paper Cutting Art: Design and Cut Your First Silhouette
A papercut must hold together as one piece of paper. Learn to design with bridges, then cut and mount a leafy branch silhouette.
Paper Art
Paper Collage for Adults: Composition, Color and Technique
How to make a paper collage that looks considered: torn and cut edges, a limited palette, simple composition rules and gluing that stays flat.
Paper Art
Layered Paper Art: Build a Shadow-Box Landscape
A sky, five paper hills and a few strips of foam tape: a first shadow-box landscape with real depth and soft shadows.
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Recycled Paper Crafts
Scrap Paper Projects: Ways to Use Up Leftover Paper
Sort offcuts by size, then put them to work: a strip mosaic card front, punched shapes, collage material, test pieces and tags, plus what is not worth keeping.
Card Making
How to Make a Pop-Up Card: The Simple Box Mechanism
Two parallel cuts and three creases make a box that stands up when the card opens. Build a 4.25 × 5.5 in card with three stepped pop-ups and a clean cover.
Paper Home Decor
How to Make a Paper Wreath With Layered Leaves
A cardboard ring covered in creased, overlapping paper leaves. Change the colors and the same wreath suits any season.
Easy Paper Crafts
Paper Weaving for Adults: A Woven Paper Mat, Step by Step
Cut slits in one sheet, weave strips of a second color through them, and finish with a crisp two-color checkered mat 8 inches square.
Paper Home Decor
Paper Wall Art: A Geometric 3D Piece for Your Wall
Sixteen low paper pyramids on a ruled board make a quiet relief that changes with the light. Each module needs two scored lines and one cut.
Seasonal Paper Crafts
How to Cut Paper Snowflakes With True Six-Point Symmetry
Real snow crystals have six sides, and one fold makes the difference. Fold a square into a 60° wedge, plan the cuts, and open out a snowflake with six true points.
Pick a project for this weekend
Choose a tutorial that suits the paper and tools you already have, clear a corner of the table, and work through it at your own pace. Every tutorial is free to read.