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Origami Box: Air Mail Style

by paola | Apr 28, 2012 | Birthday, Building Activities, Origami Box

A friend of mine is about to celebrate his birthday. He’s a young engineer and he has basically two obsessions: becoming a pilot and…ice cream!
Me and my friends decided to organize an ice cream tasting in the best “gelateria” in town, and my job was to create a fun invitation to let everybody know about the party. My idea was to put the invitation inside a small candy box. What about an air mail style origami box?
Here it is!

This box is composed by 9 printable items:

The top
the bottom
2 big ribbons
2 small ribbons
2 inside masks
1 card

The inside masks are two paper squares designed to decorate the inside of the box. Check the next pic to see how nice they look.

The box size is about 7 x 7 x 3.5 cm (2.8 x 2.8 x 1.4 inches).
Making it was very easy.
You can find a quick tutorial to make an origami box here (youtube link), and the free pdf printable artwork here (private use only, not for commercial use.)
Have fun!

Paola

Space Scene Craft: 3…2…1….Blastoff!

by gabry | Apr 27, 2012 | Coloring Activities

My son is obsessed with rockets and space right now, so I decided to create a craft that we could do together.

He has always enjoyed coloring but lately we have started to practice his pasting skills and he just loves playing with stickers and glue. Buying stickers is fun but it can be expensive and it is not as creative as making your own stuff together. The first project we made together I did it on the fly and just used some construction paper we had in the house.

I liked the idea but I wanted more elements and as soon as we had some time I drew all my space scene elements on a paper asking him what he would like to put in his space scene and had my son color them with me.

Then I proceeded to cut them (if your kid is already using scissors you can let him/her do the larger elements in the picture while you do the most detailed ones) and he had fun pasting them wherever he wanted.

Later, I have been sketching on the space “theme” and I came up with some nice rocket coloring page (downloadable here as a pdf, for private use only, not for commercial use.)