![]() Just dig out your colorful cocktail napkins and start cutting! The first easy craft I want to show you how to make are these easy paper lanterns that can be used outdoors to create some evening drama once you light them up with battery operated tea lightsĬheck out these easy step by step directions to make these lanterns. Let’s take a look at a couple of paper craft techniques that you can easily learn to create a true Mexican experience at your party! Whatever the reason it became popular, paper folk art brings a fun festive touch to your fiesta, and can be made relatively quickly and on the cheap! Get your kids to help or have your friends come over, whip up some margaritas, and start the crafting party! Since then, paper crafting has taken on many forms of decoration in the Mexican culture, such as cascarones (hollowed out eggs decorated with tissue paper and filled with confetti–which I previously showed you how to make in my Easter blog), pinatas (animal figures made of paper and filled with treats), papel picado (punched paper artwork) and paper flowers and lanterns. Other resources state that it became so popular to make these decorations because they were inexpensive and could also provide decor when the weather was inclement and could not provide natural decor like flowers. The galleons would carry tissue paper– “papel de China” (paper from China) or “papel de seda” (paper of silk). Some resources say that paper crafting made its way from Asia to Mexico via the Manila Galleons that crossed the Pacific Ocean from the Philippines to Acapulco, Mexico. I’m not exactly sure why paper art became so popular in Mexico. ![]() These are all traditional Mexican folk art craft techniques that have been passed down through the generations. You can achieve designs that have vertical, horizontal and radial symmetry this way.Watch me prepare crafts for Cinco de MayoĬinco de Mayo, a day of pride and celebration for Mexico’s victory over the French forces at the Battle of Puebla in 1862, is just around the corner and if you’re attending or hosting a party, it’s time to decorate for the fiesta! This year, the celebration falls on a Tuesday, but many people, like myself, will be attending and hosting festivities this coming weekend.Īs my mom and I were talking about the upcoming holiday, she reminded me of all the fun paper decorations we made during my childhood to celebrate our Mexican culture–paper flowers and lanterns, piñatas, and papel picados. Don’t forget to cut a design into the loose edges, too! (Talk about how cutting on a fold yields designs that are symmetrical. Unfold and repeat, but don’t take your papers apart until you have cut away all the designs you can! Make vertical, horizontal and even diagonal folds and cuts for the most interesting finished designs. ![]() Now, make folds into your sandwich of papers, drawing designs on the folds and then cutting them away. Fold your ‘sandwich’ of 12” loose edges over about an inch. Trim away the little bit of tissue paper that extends beyond the three open edges of the construction paper.ĥ. Next, slip your folded tissue paper (centered) into the folded construction paper, so that the 15” folded edge of the tissue paper lines up with the 12” folded edge of the construction paper.Ĥ. Choose a sheet of colored tissue paper and fold it in half to 20”x15”, then fold it in half again the other direction to 10”x15.ģ. ![]() First, fold your 12”x18” white construction paper in half, to 9”x12”.Ģ.
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