Paper Basket: A DIY craft guide on how to make them with your kids

It is possible to make paper baskets with mere materials that one may find lying around house. It acts as a fun craft idea that both children and ults can participate in ir free time. Paper baskets also provide an alternative to wrapping gifts- and it can save one a lot of time. Here is a step by step guide on how to make paper baskets.

Materials required

• Construction paper of different colours
• Scissors or craft scissors
• Glue

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Steps to make

• first step to making this of paper basket is cutting paper in strips. paper should be cut into equal-sized strips- depending upon desired size of basket.
• In this step, maker can use eir same coloured paper or paper strips of different colours to create a variegated look.
• next step is to weave basket.
• Half of number of strips should be laid out, face-up, with ir edges in a neat line.
• n, remaining paper strips should be woven into basket to create a basket weave pattern. This step should be continued for till all strips have been woven into place.
• strips that are protruding from sides of basket should be folded up. Eventually, se will create four sides of basket.
• To make this process easier, it would be convenient to put a heavy, square-shaped object in middle of basket to keep it stey while edges are being folded urds.
• Next, a strip of paper has to be woven through four sides of basket to hold it in place.
• previous step should be repeated till top is reached and basket can eventually stand up and hold its shape on its own.
• This completes basket. One can also d a handle to basket by taping or stapling a strip of lace to two of sides of basket.

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woven pattern of paper baskets is simplest and most common re is, but it is t only design of paper basket out re. re are plenty of or methods to create paper baskets of various colours, shapes and sizes with help of different papers. For example, if one wishes, one can also make a paper basket out of newspapers lying around house.

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