How To Make a Simple Flat Paper Bow

Day 4 of 30 days of craft tutorials for National Crafting Month

Today’s tutorial is for a simply little adorable paper bow.  These will work for gift wrapping as well as scrapbook pages.

Materials:

• Paper
• Adhesive – I prefer roll glue for this
• Scissors
• Template (click on image below)
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Step One: Cut out template and lay on your paper

Step Two: Cut out your bow

Step Three:  Apply adhesive to center and bring in the edges to center.  Glue down

Step Four:  Apply adhesive to center of bottom paper ribbon piece

Step Five:  Attach your bow.  Done

A few variations:

• add embellishments to the center of the bow for different looks
• attach a gift tag to the bow with a baby clothes pins