Paper craft · Challenge · about 75 minutes
Mini Paper Town
Uses scissors · Uses glue · Adult help suggested
- Card stock printed with sheet 1 (house walls, house roof, street mat), 216 x 279 mm (8.5 x 11 in (Letter) or A4)
- Card stock printed with sheet 2 (shop and tower), 216 x 279 mm (8.5 x 11 in (Letter) or A4)
- Blunt-tip scissors
- Glue stick
- Ruler (to check the scale bar and to help crease)
For the grown-up: Help with the many inside corners between tabs, and with holding each box while its last tabs dry.
Safety: Use blunt-tip scissors and cut away from your fingers.
Blue dashes: valley fold (toward you). Pink dash-dot: mountain fold (away from you). Thick line with scissors: cut. Yellow: glue.
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Start. Print both sheets at 100% (Actual size) on card stock. Check that each 5 cm bar measures 5 cm. Start with sheet 1.
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1. Cut: From sheet 1, cut out the house walls, the house roof and the street mat. Keep every tab.
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2. Fold and unfold: Crease every dashed line on the house walls, bending away from the printed side. Fold the roof in half along its middle line.
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3. Glue: Fold the four walls into a ring. Glue the side tab inside the far edge of the front wall and hold it.
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4. Glue: Fold all the small top tabs inward. Rub glue on them and lay the roof on top, its fold resting on the two pointed ends.
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5. Cut: From sheet 2, cut out the shop and the tower. Keep every tab.
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6. Fold and unfold: Crease every dashed line on both pieces, bending away from the printed side.
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7. Glue: Shop: fold the walls into a ring and glue the side tab inside the front wall.
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8. Glue: Close the shop: rub glue on the three lid tabs, fold the lid over and tuck the tabs inside the walls. Press until they hold.
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9. Glue: Tower: fold the walls into a ring and glue the side tab inside the front wall.
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10. Glue: Bend the four roof triangles in. Glue each triangle's tab under the next one so all four tips meet in a point.
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11. Glue: Fold each building's bottom tabs inward, rub glue under them and press the building onto its marked spot, front facing the street.
If something goes wrong
- The walls do not meet at the corner. Check the 5 cm bar: if it is off, print again at 100% (Actual size). Crease each fold sharply before gluing.
- The roof triangles of the tower do not meet in a point. Glue one tab at a time and press each from inside with a pencil while the glue sets.
- A building leans. Make sure both bottom tabs are folded inward and glued flat, and that the walls form a square ring.
- The shop lid pops open. Push its tabs fully inside the walls and hold the lid down for a minute.