I stopped by my friend
Alex's house last week and I found her sitting on her living room floor surrounded by a million paper teardrops! I immediately got her to show me how to make them and I became hooked! I spent a good chunk of my afternoon on Saturday making these paper teardrops and I have to warn you they're addicting!
Materials:-paper that is either the same colour or print on both sides
-scissors
-double sided tape or a glue gun depending on the thickness of the paper (I ended up using a glue gun for my medium weight paper)
-ruler
-pencil
-hole punch
-string or ribbon
Instructions:1. For medium size teardrops cut your paper to 5"x 5" and fold in half to form a triangle. Fold in half again into a smaller triangle.
2. Draw lines on your triangle 1/2" apart and then cut along each line keeing a 1/4" space from the folded part of the triangle.
3. Open your triangle and starting in the middle begin gluing or taping the cuts together. Once the middle ones are together, flip your paper over and secure the next set of cuts. Repeat this step until all cuts are secured together.
4. Punch holes in the top of each teardrop and thread through string or ribbon to make a banner.
Christmas Tree Teardrop Ornaments
I also decided to make smaller teardrops (beginning square 3" x 3" and cuts are still a 1/2" apart) and then used ball and chain cut to size to hang them on the Christmas tree.
Tree Topper Teardrops
To make the tree topper simply make a small cone using your paper. Using 5 of the small teardrops, glue each bottom part together like a pinwheel and secure to the cone.
I hope you enjoyed this fun DIY!! Many thanks to Alex!
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