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Resource: Paper-cut Banners

Resource to create traditional Mexican paper-cut banners as a creative tool for play, identity and imagination.

Make papel picado (paper-cut) banners, a traditional, colourful decoration for Day of the Dead celebrations.


Resource to create Mexican paper-cut banners as a creative tool for play, identity and imagination. Traditionally, these pieces of Mexican folk art were chiselled by hand from stacks of tissue paper, with designs that varied by occasion. Here is how you do homemade papel picado.



Materials

Video tutorial on how to create your own papel picado.

  • Tissue paper

  • Scissors

  • Glue stick

  • Punch hole tool

  • string or twine

  • Rulers and pencils








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