Decorate your home with playful garlands

Get into craft mood and create beautiful garland decorations with children holding hands, to decorate your house. What you need: Papers, scissors, crayons and watercolours. Make use of old gift wrap, magazines and paper bags that you have at home and combine with decorative materials such as glitter, stickers, fabric and buttons.

A child in an orange sweatshirt with a decorated and playful garland that illustrates children holding hands.

Illustration of a white paper roll with cut marks and an open scissor.

Step 1

Cut a long piece of paper, around 10–15 centimetres.

Illustration of a pencil, a folded paper with cut marks and an open scissor.

Step 2

Fold the paper several times, like anaccordion. Make it around 5–8 centimetres wide.

An illustration with instructions for how to create your own garlands, step-by-step, using paper and scissors.

Step 3

Start drawing and make sure that you draw the body parts all the way to the side of thepaper.

Illustration of a paper cut into garlands that look like children holding hands.

Step 4

When you cut your figure out, make sure to save the sides where your drawings touch each other. If you want to make several, use glue to put them together.