Mondays Armchair Activity

I am horribly sorry that I missed my post on Friday night, my user on the laptop got some sort of virus thing and its taken Rich a couple of days to fix, but hey ho we eventually got there and it seems to be fine... fingers crossed. 

So to begin tonight's post I have a couple of pictures. 

My diagonal pink and white crate, yay! and obviously the picture of what I used my original 3 crates for, fabric storage, yay again! Although the hours of painting where pretty pointless because you cant see any of it now any way! Never mind!

Right so Mondays Armchair Activity... Origami Hearts

Its ever so easy today all you need is:

• Scissors
• A mixture of papers.. DONE!

STEP 1. Strips of paper, the thicker they are, the larger the heart. The longer they are, the stronger they are. (also using thick paper helps!!)

STEP 2. Fold the end over to make a triangle, like sssoooo...

STEP 3. Carry on folding the triangle over and over.

STEP 4. When you get to the end, it should look like this....

STEP 5. Cut the end of you paper into a shape which will be easy to tuck into the fold you see in the picture above. Then tuck it in,  this will secure the triangle.

STEP 6. Take your triangle and using you nail, press down in the center to make the shape below, then gently flatten the corners... like the next picture.

STEP 7. Your heart will now be taking shape, it should look 3D

STEP 8. Optional, you can now trim the corners into a round shape, like below. I think it makes these little squishy shapes look more like hearts but does make them slightly less stable.

STEP 9. Now make 40,000 more hearts of various sizes in lots of different papers, pop them in a jar and make it look pretty like this!

 And that is that, origami paper hearts in a lovely jar, done!