DLTK's Holiday Crafts for Kids
Chinese New Year Quilt Paper Craft

This is a great cut and paste paper craft project for decorating a wall or bulletin board.  It's fun for family or friends to spend some time figuring out which of the animals they are based on their birth date!

This turns out to be quite a large project (about 30 inches x 25 inches) and there are lots of templates to print.

Alternatively, you might like to have a group of children each make a quilt piece or two and then assembling everyone's pieces into one quilt.

Materials:

• paper,
• printer,
• something to color with
• scissors,
• glue
   
• Optional:  red construction paper

Instructions:

• Optional:  This is optional, but I really like to include it as part of the craft if I'm making the 9 square quilt.
  • Print the "Top Border Template" in either color or B&W.  This is the bit that says "Happy New Year" along the top.
  • Color the template pieces if using B&W.
  • Cut out the template pieces.
  • Assemble the pieces to make a strip about 20 inches long and 3 inches tall.
• Print templates 1 to 12.
• Color each template piece if using B&W
  • this can be done as a group project with each child completing a square and then assembling it as a group.
• Cut out the template pieces.
• Apply glue to the gray parts of the template and assemble (you can look at the image at the top of this page to see what piece goes where)  After assembling, there should be no gray left showing.
   
• Optional:  I was torn whether to add this as the project is already quite time consuming.  It's up to you whether you want to do it!
  • Glue 4 inch wide strips of construction paper all around the outside of your project to form a border.  Use scissors to cut a slight wave in this border so it looks like a quilt.
     
    OR.
  • Print 4 copies of the fringe template.  Cut out the pieces and glue them around the outside of the quilt as a border, overlapping the pieces slightly so there are no gaps.

Printable Craft Templates:

• After printing, close the template window to return to the main page.
• If the template doesn’t fit on one page, adjust your printer margins:
  • In most browsers: Print → More settings → Margins → Minimum
  • Or use Page Setup / Printer Setup in your printer dialog

Quilt Top Template               color   or    B&W

Quilt Square Template 1       color   or    B&W

Quilt Square Template 2       color   or    B&W 

Quilt Square Template 3       color   or    B&W

Quilt Square Template 4       color   or    B&W

Quilt Square Template 5       color   or    B&W

Quilt Square Template 6       color   or    B&W

Quilt Square Template 7       color   or    B&W

Quilt Square Template 8       color   or    B&W

Quilt Square Template 9       color   or    B&W

Quilt Square Template 10     color   or    B&W

Quilt Square Template 11     color   or    B&W

Quilt Square Template 12     color   or    B&W

Optional Fringe Template       color   or    B&W

Printable version of these instructions