Design your own fantastical unicorn cards with my template. Make magical unicorns holding hearts as a special note for Valentine's Day, birthday or any celebration! Dazzle your friends with a handmade card with real hair, they will be so impressed. Plus I love the fact that this unicorn card has folding arms that hug a heart, write something inspiring or encouraging and share the message with a loved one.

​Get the template here at hellowonderful.co!

Just take a look at what a great job Agnes from hellowonderful.co did! Didn't they come out great? Plus check out the little video she made as well... it's so fun!

Be sure to add your own special features to these cards, for example I glued on some extra long yarn to make a braid for one of my unicorns I think it looks awesome! Have fun and make lots of things!

Having a Super Bowl extravaganza this year? Well make these super cool and funny character tube crafts for everyone to enjoy, or maybe you're looking to get the kids involved? Have 'em make one for all of your guests! They'd look fantastic propped up on the food table or how 'bout presenting them on the tray with all the snacks, your friends will get a kick outta them!

Perhaps they can guard the pool boxes too! Offer them as consolation prizes to the losers haha!

​Download the printables right here... and be sure to check out my shop for other cool printables!

Materials:

• Printer
• White cardstock
• ​Toilet tube
• Scissors or craft knife
• Tacky Glue
• Stapler

Directions:

​Step 1. Print out you character. Cut out all of the pieces, there are 6 pieces in total. Be sure to keep the tab for the head intact with the body.

Step 2. Wrap the body around a toilet tube and staple in the back, if you don't want to staple it then use some glue.

Stpe 3. Glue on the arms, head and football.

Ok, so this design is probably my most detailed of all of my papercrafts so far, but it still is only 5 separate pieces, with a bit of determination and patience you could put this rebel, stormtrooper crushing cruiser together too! How cool would this be to have as a hanging decoration in your son or daughter's Star Wars themed room, I know I would, and best part is this download is free. Putting it together is pretty self explanatory but I will try my hardest to describe it to you in the directions below.

Besides being a huge Star Wars fan, I wanted to create this papercraft as a symbol and reflection of the state of our country. To compare our state of being to a movie does seem super silly, but I do believe in the power of storytelling and I do believe that great stories are inspired by true life in the first place. I've always found so much truth in the notion of good vs. evil and the journey our beloved heroes go on to triumph over it. The success of a protagonist gives us all hope that good will conquer all, and if they don't exactly succeed, well then there's always going to be someone with the courage to challenge what isn't right.

I'm not saying that what we face is the doing of one man but it's the bigger picture we face, suppression, being told what we should believe, losing our freedom to be free thinkers and make decisions for ourselves. These are the evils we face and it starts by educating ourselves and educating each other. Don't rebel for the sake of rebelling, do it because you are passionate about finding the best solution by doing it with the best attitude, by doing it with compassion, strength and knowledge. Fight for what's right, because there is such a thing as right vs. wrong and we all have to start choosing to just do what's right.

Download this X-wing papercraft below and check out my shop for more fun papercrafts!

Materials:

• Printer
• White cardstock
• Scissors or craft knife
• ​Tacky glue

Directions:

Step 1. Be sure to print out the wings twice so that you have four in total. Start by cutting out all of the pieces, there's a total of 7.

Step 2. Next make score lines on all of the flaps and dotted gray lines, use your craft knife or the corner of a credit card to score the lines.

Step 3. Start by glueing the flaps towards the back of the body of the X-wing to the 6 sided black shape which is the back panel. Add the separate two panels next.

Step 4. Bend the longer side panels around and glue them to the matching flaps.

Step 5. Fold the wings on the dotted lines and overlap them evenly, glue them together along the end.

Step 6. Glue the wings to the sides of the X-wing.

See more photos below to see how the X-wing gets assembled.

Materials:

• Rainbow Arch papercraft printable (in my post below)
• Cardboard
• Scissors or craft knife
• Hot glue
• Acrylic paint
• Paint brushes
• Newspaper
  
• ​Tacky glue
  

Directions:

Step 1. Print and cut out one of the rainbow Arch patterns from my rainbow Arch printable in my previous post below.

Step 2. Use the pattern to trace onto cardboard, you'll need two of these.

Step 3. Next cut a long strip of cardboard, the width should be about an inch or so.

Step 4. Hot glue the long strip to the outer edges of the rainbow piece a little bit at a time until you've gone all around.

Step 5. Next, glue on the other half of the rainbow.

Step 6. Prepare a bowl with a water and tacky glue mixture, it's about 2 parts glue to 1 part water. Start to papier mâché your rainbow by dipping strips of newspaper into your mixture, be sure to wipe off the excess glue and then cover your rainbow completely. Your rainbow will need about a day to dry completely.

I am lucky enough to be one of the people who got to view and enjoy the wonderful story written by Agnes Hsu of hellowonderful.co, be sure to read all about it in the post above! I've also designed this little papercraft inspired by the story's main character, Arch.

Put this super easy Rainbow Arch together and enjoy a 3D, standing paper toy of little Arch straight from the pages of this brilliant book! After cutting out the pieces you could even color the blank side and design your very own rainbow papercraft!

Download the Rainbow Arch for free right below...

Materials:

• Printer
• White cardstock paper
• Scissor or craft knife
• ​Tacky glue
• Ruler

Directions:

Step 1. Cut out all of the shapes with a scissor or craft knife, the pieces don't have to be perfect.

Step 2. Score all of the tabs on the long purple piece with a craft knife and ruler or you could use something like a credit card to make score lines. This will help fold back all of the tabs.

Step 3. Add glue to a few tabs at a time and start adhering it to the upper part of the rainbow, make your way around gluing on all of the tabs to one piece of the rainbow.

Step 4. Add glue to the tabs on the other side and place the other half of the rainbow on top.

A few years back I worked with children and young adults with autism, I provided them with fun and interesting projects during their art sessions. The activities had to be relevant to their IEPs, learning and physical capabilities, which was always a challenge. What I found to be most beneficial was art projects that had lots of pieces to glue on such as a collage. Here is a project that all of the students and teachers loved. This tree is filled with lots of love hearts and looks even better when you add more and more hearts.

You'll need a few simple materials to make this project. One of which is 3D foam squares that makes the tree literally pop from the page. If you don't have foam squares then you could just use small strips or pieces of cardboard to raise your tree up. I think this is such a great way to present artwork.

Materials:

• Colored cardstock
• Patterend cardstock or paper
• Glue
• Heart shaped paper punches
• 3D foam squares

Directions:

Step 1. The white tree itself I cut out using my Cricut, but you don't have to do this. I think a tree made from strips of paper or torn paper would look fantastic. Have the kids put the tree together using glue before adhering it to the background.

Step 2. Using a craft punch cut hearts from solid and patterned paper, adhere the hearts to the tree.

Step 3. If you'd like, add a ground to your background paper, you can paint one with a textured roller or glue on tissue paper squares.

Step 4. Adhere 3D foam squares to the back of the tree. Then adhere the tree to your background.

Remember to add your own personal touches to a project like this, there are so many creative options and kids really love getting creative!

I am pretty super stoked about these three sports cars, creating them has been on my mind for a long time and I thought that Valentine's Day would be the perfect opportunity to zoom into action! Haha. It started with one and then I thought I'd make it in different colors, who doesn't love seeing their car in all different colors? Plus it's always smart to have a variety.

I also wanted to create something that boys could relate to, oftentimes crating isn't so much a boy activity but throw in a cool racer and you got a happy bunch. Valentine's Day is also one of those anti boy things, however today's modern kids are far more into it and it doesn't have to be a day to celebrate a lover but to celebrate your friends too, so why not check out this fantastic, fun sports car papercraft and give 'em out to all your friends (some assembly required ;-)).

Y0u can purchase the set of 3 in my shop here at The Art Dream!

This papercraft requires a bit of cutting and glueing but that is the fun part... when I'm in the process of getting these little designs together there's a feeling going through my bones that I can't quite describe, I just love seeing something flat, and seemingly uninteresting spring to life. Papercrafting is a fun and easy way to work on motor and conceptual skills. Show your kids that it is possible to create something amazing from a piece of paper, and who knows maybe soon they'll be creating their own three dimensional structures!

Be sure to check out the shop where you can find this exciting paper craft along with many other cool designs!

Take a look at some more photos below of my speedy, sporty, souped-up sports cars!

You can download this Troll craft right here at The Art Dream!

Materials:

• Printer
• White cardstock paper
• Toilet tube or paper towel tube
• Scissors or craft knife
• Glue
• Stapler or tape
• Markers, crayons etc
• String

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Directions:

Step 1. Print out your choice of Poppy or Branch or both, then cut with scissors or a craft knife.

Step 2. Cut a cardboard tube the correct height. Poppy and a branch are shorter than a standard toilet tube.

Step 3. Wrap your tube with tissue paper twice the height of the tube, fill with treats, twist to secure the ends.

Step 4. Wrap with more tissue paper and cut fringe to create the hair.

Step 5. Wrap the face around the toilet tube. Secure with glue, tape or a stapler.

Step 6. Bend the tabs back on the ears and glue to the sides of the tube.

For Poppy, I tied her hair up like she wore it in the movie but you don't have to, that's up to you! Have fun making your Trolls crafts I hope all of your friends enjoy this activity as much as I do.

​Be sure to also check out my shop where you can purchase more fun papercrafts!

Try out the color your own gumball machine this way kids can make them whatever colors they'd like! Remember to add your own touches of love and personality, how about glueing on some colorful pom-poms or even some round gems to represent gumballs in the machine!

If you dig this printable craft then visit my shop for more cool printables!

Here is the colored gumball machine printable...

And this is the color your own version...

So I've featured these two butterfly and bee tube crafts before at The Art Dream, but I thought it would be so fun to dress them up for Valentine's Day and remind you that I've made them downloadable for free to color yourself. Color them with pinks and reds and these two will be the loveliest love bugs you can find!

Remeber, you can find the butterfly printable at hellowonderful.co, this craft is exclusive to HW!

​You can download the color your own bee right below here at The Art Dream! If you like these check out my Shop too!