This is such a busy time of year with New Year following close on Christmas Day. It’s. easy to overlook the New Year but we couldn’t resist looking through all our New Year crafts and added a sweet origami bells craft for kids to make. Origami is always fun and these origami bells will add a touch of colour to your celebrations.
List of supplies
Coloured craft papers (we used red, green and yellow)
Pencil
Craft glue
A pair of scissors
Origami bells craft for kids
Select red, green and yellow coloured craft papers for the origami bell craft. Prepare a piece of yellow square paper (10cm x 10cm).
Fold the square paper in half vertically and horizontally and then unfold the paper.
Make a small (1cm or 1.5cm) fold along any one side of the square paper.
Turn the paper to the other side.
Hold a corner of the intact side (opposite to the thin folded side). Fold the corner inside and join it to the center of the square paper (intersected point of the vertical and horizontal half folds).
Similarly, fold the other corner inside.
Fold the current pattern in half. This will leave the pointy edge slightly outside the pattern layout.
Fold in the right side of the current pattern along the middle line, but make it slightly diagonal.
Similarly, fold the left side of the current pattern inside.
Fold 1cm part of the top left corner inside.
Fold 1cm part of the top right corner inside.
Prepare berry and leaf patterns from red and green coloured craft papers. You can also prepare bow patterns.
Attach the berry and leaf cutouts together before attaching them to the bell origami pattern. Use sharpies to draw outlines on the berry and leaf pattern.
Attach the berry-leaf pattern to the origami bell pattern to complete the origami bells craft.
Why not add these to a napkin if you are having a family meal to celebrate the New Year?
You may be interested in our other New Year crafts:
