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The Amazing Recycled Crafts Contest
Preston the Penguin
- Contest Photo by: alexisdianne_craig
- Attica, MI
- Category: Just for Fun
Description
Description: Preston is made entirely out of the County Press newspaper (with the exception of google eyes), so we call him "Press"ton. If you look close, youll see that he is actually made out of little pieces of newspaper. To make Preston, I first cut an old newspaper into 362 rectangles of equal size, and then folded each one of them into little triangles. These triangles then have to simply be put together in different shapes. Preston is my first project of this kind, so Im not taking him apart, but the triangles are all re-usable. It easy and fun to make, it just takes time to cut and fold all of the paper.
Materials
Old newspaper and google eyes
How to Make
The first step was to cut the newspaper into squares.
Each square is folded into a triangle. 362 triangles of equal size are required.
Each triangle is nested into another and gradually built onto until the shape begins. Add eyes, a triangle beak and some cut out feet.
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