3D Paper Vase: Let’s Make Art

Let’s Make Art brings you some making tutorials using easily found materials that you’ll already have at home.  

This tutorial teaches you how to make a 3D paper vase, and is suitable for all ages.

We’ve provided you with written and photographic instructions or a video tutorial, so follow whatever suits you best.

You will need:

  • an empty cereal box or plain card
  • 1 sheet of plain/scrap paper to make a template with
  • an old magazine/newspaper or coloured paper
  • a pencil
  • a glue stick
  • a stapler (tape or punched holes and string will work if you don’t have a stapler)
  • a washed-out glass jar/bottle/tin can
  • scissors

Instructions

  • Fold your paper in half longways and draw a line that will make the outside edges of your vase shape, and then cut it out.
  • Unfold the paper and use the shape you’ve made as a template for your vase on both pieces of the cereal box before cutting them out.
  • Use a stapler (or strong tape) to attach both sides of your vase.
  • Fold over colourful pages from magazines before cutting shapes out (this makes them symmetrical).
  • Decide on your design by placing your shapes on the vase before sticking them on.
  • Gently ease a jar or a tin into the vase and add flowers.

Top tip: You can make your vase into a wall vase by removing the jar/tin and punching a hole in the back. Perhaps you could make some paper or Lego flowers for your vase and hang them on the wall!

About Let’s Make Art

Alice and Karen founded Let’s Make Art, an independent arts organisation, in 2012. They run high-quality, unique art activities, events and workshops to ensure people of all ages and abilities experience many art techniques in a fun and imaginative way.

Karen and Alice are currently Artists in Residence at the Arnolfini, Bristol’s International Centre for Contemporary Arts. Their first art book for children was published in 2022.

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Photography by: Larry Costales and Let’s Make Art