Chinese Paper Cuts

A traditional, but fairly simple, tiger paper cut

The art of Chinese paper cutting has been prized for many thousands of years. Paper cuts are used for decoration, given as gifts, and are regarded as lucky. Traditional paper cuts often showed celebrations, weddings and feasts, but now all sorts of motifs are used.

Best for older kids, this is a good project for practising planning and design skills.. Paper cuts are a very old, traditional craft in China and are often seen at Chinese New Year.
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How to cut the character for "Double Happiness" - often used at weddings but also appropriate for Chinese New Year. This one is fairly simple for kids to follow:

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Cut a tiger's face. This one is definitely for older kids - but remember that you can always pause the video whenever you need to so that you can follow along.

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