Alphabet
A is for Astronaut
So, here it is – the first letter of the papercraft alphabet. The astronaut: Here is the template as a PDF file.
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Pirate fish
Arrr… yes, mate, your eyes aren’t betraying you – this here is a pirate fish. And not the modern kind either, but a true buccaneer, navigating the seven seas shipless. This one turned out nicer than I expected, therefore I almost feel inclined to make a whole crew – or should
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Toucan
This is a small cardboard toucan. It can sit on the corner of, say, your NEC monitor. In order to make that work, you have to glue a small weight such as a coin to the inside of the feet, like so: This will give enough balance to keep the
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Three finger doll animals
Now that I have featured the fox, the crow and the bear finger dolls, I wanted to show you all three together. All three being forest beasts, they go together quite well, the cheeky crow, the sly fox and the relaxed bear. These are extremely easy to make, and should
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Finger doll crow
When it comes to finger dolls, it seems I have a slight bias for northern European forest beasts. Here is a crow: This one goes well with the fox and the bear. Here is the template: crowcrow.pdf39 KBdownload-circle
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Finger doll fox
Following the finger doll bear, here is his good friend the fox: Again, very simple to build, definitely worthwile as a beginner’s project. And here is the PDF template: foxfox.pdf39 KBdownload-circle
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Finger doll bear
As social creatures, we have the amazing ability to project a soul into virtually anything that has two eyes and a mouth. This opens up a world of possibilities when it comes to dolls. And sometimes the simplest dolls are the most loved ones. So I set out to create
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DIY advent calendar: Nativity scene
It is a dear tradition in our family to get the kids an advent calendar. Now, for this year I wanted to make something myself rather than buy a run-off-the-mill calendar. And of course, being an advent calendar, it should be related to the story of Christmas. Voila, enter the
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Papercraft piggy bank - globe edition
Seems the piggy bank is slowly becoming a series, now that we have a wood version and the Manhattan map version. Be sure to collect them all. Here is the blue planet piggy bank: Here is the PDF template.
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Papercraft piggy bank - wood edition
I’ve made a nice little template for a papercraft piggy bank. Exactly the right thing if you want to save up for a special occasion. Or to wrap up a monetary gift. It’s admittedly rather light, being made of paper and such. So to give it more weight,
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The gentleman dinosaur
May I introduce you to the gentleman dinosaur: He is as distinguished as he is obsolete. That’s the way things go these days. If you want to assemble him, here is the template (see also instructions here): * Corel Draw * PDF * PDF + GSD (Craft Robo) * SVG
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A velociraptor named Herbie
Most of you will be too young to remember Herbie, the sentient Volkswagen Beetle created by Disney in more innocent times. Speaking of innocence, here is a slightly more dangerous version: I give you – the Herbieraptor. If you want to assemble him, here is the template (see also instructions here)