Looking for a fun and easy way to add something special to your doll room decorating? I find that I have a lot of things to use as furniture for my dolls, but not a lot of things to use as wall decorations. This is a fun and easy craft you can do to decorate your dolls’ walls, or just to have for parties! I made these with a Valentine’s theme, but they’d do well for so many holidays and occasions. Will you make some with me?
Supplies:
- Valentine’s themed scrapbook paper (or any holiday/color scheme)
- Ruler
- Pencil
- Tape or glue
- String or thread
- Sewing needle
- 1/8 inch hole punch (optional)
Step 1: Measure off a couple rectangle sections on the back of each piece of paper. I made mine 2 7/8 inches by 4 inches. Make sure you pay attention to the direction of the design on the other side – you want one of the long sides to be the top. Cut out your rectangles.
Step 2: Fold each piece of paper in half length wise.
Step 3: Now you are going to make several little cuts along the folded edge of each piece. Start about ¼ inch from the short edge, make cuts every 3/16 of an inch or so, and stop about ¼ inch from the other short edge. Make sure you do not cut all the way to the open edges of the folded paper. You want to leave about ¼ inch uncut all the way around the folded paper’s three sides.
Now open the folded paper, and you will see you have cuts in the center of the paper, but that you also have a solid border around the perimeter of the paper.
Step 4: Bringing the short sides around to meet each other, overlap the ¼ inch borders and tape or glue closed. You now have your paper lantern shape! Give it a little squeeze from top to bottom so the folds stick out a little – so cute!
Step 5: If you have an 1/8 inch hole punch, use it now to punch a hole on either side of the top of each lantern, staying safely within the ¼ inch border. If you don’t have one, you can use a needle and thread to make holes and string the lanterns all in one step. But I do recommend an 1/8 inch punch for many doll-sized craft projects!
Step 6: Now use your string and/or needle and thread to string up your lanterns! I used a very generous piece of string so that I would have options later as to where I could hang them.
Now decorate your doll room for a doll Valentine’s party, and make sure to invite all your doll friends!
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190 Comments
I love making accessories for my granddaughter’s 18" doll, grocery store items game pieces, etc.
Yes, I love paper crafting. I can see and create things I can’t do by drawing or painting. It almost feels like cheating at art.
I’m not really a “paper” crafter though I do a little scrap booking and used to do some holiday paper crafts, plus many other crafts. I love this paper lantern project and will use it to make lanterns for the lunar New Year as my grandchildren are half Asian.
I am indeed a paper crafter – I’ve loved the cutting and gluing since I was tiny. What I love best to make with and for my dolls is books, real bound books with lots of pages, every page filled with words and illustrations. Sometimes I like making blank books for my dolls to fill in, as diaries of their daily doings, or as art journals painting and drawing (and cutting and pasting) whatever they feel like. Of course they make and keep albums, to glue their art works into… and cutting tiny paper stars and snowflakes… so your lanterns fit in just right with our activities here!
I would not consider myself as a paper crafter, although I have done a couple paper crafts found on Pinterest. With all of the fabric around my craft area, I really don’t want to get started in paper crafting to take up space I’m using for fabric & sewing items. I will do this craft though.