Weaving A Floor Mat Out Of Newspaper
One of the spreads should be folded along its center crease.
Weaving a floor mat out of newspaper. Cut the sheet into strips as above. Rotating the mat and folding and tucking into the horizontal strips along the edges. Lay two thicknesses of full sheets of the newspaper out onto a flat work surface. Weave the strips up down through the slots of the white sheet.
Fold each side of the newspaper to the center fold line and crease the folded edge. Kids can also change the way the weave looks by cutting wavy lines zigzags or lines are varying thickness into the construction paper. Paper weave place mats by laughing kids learn. Continue weaving the strips until you have four vertical and four horizontal more vocabulary enrichment woven over and under.
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. Continue folding each side of the newspaper to the center crease line until each side measures 3 1 2. Weaving these mats costs very little and gives the newspapers a second life. 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. Cut straight lines 1 inch 2 54 cm apart from the fold to the edge of the paper farthest from you. Turn the newspaper so that its center fold is closest to you. This is one of the cool tricks we learned a long long time ago and it still works.
These paper weave place mats are simple enough for a three year old to make.