 Garlands can be made using as many
shades of tissue papers as you like. You can make it more attractive by giving
matching shades alternately. Here we are using square pieces of tissue paper to
make garland. In this method you can make three varieties of garlands from the
same paper.
The choice of colours depends on
your taste. Here pink, dark blue and light blue are used to make the garlands.
Take 12 to 18 square
pieces of tissue papers in three different
shades. If you want more length for your garland, you can use another
set of 12 to 18 tissue papers to make another garland and join the
garlands together.
Fold all the tissue
papers into eights to establish creases and
unfold.
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Take one piece of
a particular colour creased tissue and apply fast-drying glue along
the two diagonal creases. |
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Lay a second piece of creased tissue
of the same colour on top.
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This time
apply glue to the horizontal and vertical creases. Continue until all the
tissues are glued in this manner. 5 to 6 pieces of the same colour can be joined
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After gluing all the tissue pieces together, cut out a circled area from the center.
When you open out the stacked pieces of tissue paper glued together, you get one
type of garland.
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Fold the cut out
circle in quarters and cut a 1 inch width circle through the edge. Open out the
stacks of paper, to make the second type of garland.
Cut the smallest
circle remaining with scalloping shears or make scallops at the edges with
scissors. This will make the third type of garland.
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Three shapes cut from a single
stack of glued tissue squares. The smallest circle cut with scalloping
shears. |
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