Love and Learn Books - Hanging Decorations

This is the time of year when decorations adorn homes, and handmade creations are on the mind of every crafty person young and old. Our Love and Learn Books activity is from a book that includes many pages with beautiful prints of seasonal designs and colours, but you’ll find this quite easy to re-create on any square piece of paper.

The hanging decoration activity comes from a much-loved Usborne book Christmas Decorations to cut, fold & stick. This book includes directions for 6 different Christmas crafts and has 100 pre-printed tear-out sheets with specific fold lines and designs for the various decorations. You’ll also find a couple of ideas at the end of the book to build even bigger decorations out of the smaller crafts. The picture below shows the single Hanging Decoration and then a large star-shaped decoration made by joining 6 Hanging Decorations.

Getting the book will definitely give you lots of easy, quick crafts to do for the Christmas season whether you’ve got young ones that need the simplicity or older kids that have short attention spans when it comes to craft time.

You’ll find the basic instructions below for this short and fun craft with slight changes from the book to direct you in using any kind of paper for decoration.

1. Use any square piece of paper. The size used in the picture is 4 inches.
2. Fold the square diagonally so that the corners meet and you have a triangle.
3. Fold in half again to form a smaller triangle.
4. Turn the triangle so the long edge is on the right, then cut 2 lines into the bottom angle halfway through the triangle (see the fourth image in the picture above).
5. Unfold the paper. Bend in the middle flaps and tape together.
6. Turn the paper over and bend in the next two flaps to meet and tape together.
7. Turn the paper over one more time and bend the last two flaps and tape together.
8. Tape a looped string or thread at one point to hang.

To make the large star pattern, you need to make six Hanging Decorations and then tape each together at the point.

You’ll be able to get even more creative with this craft when you use your own paper, which can be decorated by colouring, stamping, painting, coating with glitter, or adorning with stickers, to name just a few ideas.

Deck your halls, living room, bedrooms and any other place in your home your kids think needs some sprucing up!

If this type of crafty activity is a hit at your house, the whole book, Christmas Decorations to cut fold & stick, may be a good addition for your home library.

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