Weaving A Floor Mat Out Of Newspaper

Rotating the mat and folding and tucking into the horizontal strips along the edges.

Weaving a floor mat out of newspaper.

Kids can also change the way the weave looks by cutting wavy lines zigzags or lines are varying thickness into the construction paper. Weave use the strips of colored paper made in part b to weave into the slotted paper made n part a. For each placemat you ll need two newspaper spreads. This time cut all the way across the paper so you get 8 strips of paper.

These paper weave place mats are simple enough for a three year old to make. Continue folding each side of the newspaper to the center crease line until each side measures 3 1 2. Hello everyone in this video you will learn how to make beautiful dinning mat out of newspaper you will surely enjoy the process of making it and will be glad to see results. Turn the newspaper so that its center fold is closest to you.

Paper weave place mats by laughing kids learn. This is one of the cool tricks we learned a long long time ago and it still works. Cut the sheet into strips as above. Weave the strips up down through the slots of the white sheet.

Cut straight lines 1 inch 2 54 cm apart from the fold to the edge of the paper farthest from you. One of the spreads should be folded along its center crease. Weaving these mats costs very little and gives the newspapers a second life. Lay two thicknesses of full sheets of the newspaper out onto a flat work surface.

Fold the sheets in half.