Newspaper Tray

by cremolada in Living > Decorating

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Newspaper Tray

15 Newspaper Tray.JPG
Recycling newspaper making something useful.

Materials

1 Materials.JPG
Gather together:
21 double size newspaper pages, scissors, glue stick (any kind), glue gun with glue sticks, paint and paint brush, about 4 kitchen bag clips.

Fold

2 Folded about one inch over and over.JPG
taking the longest side start folding each page about one inch over and over again until you reach the end.

Glue

3 glue the end along side.JPG
the page alongside when finish folding.

Do

4 21 paper pages folded.JPG
the same with the other pages, here are all 21 newspaper sticks.

Align

5 Take 11 put them alongside with 3 inch difference on the borders.JPG
eleven sticks side to side with a difference of 2 or 3 inches up and down.

Fold

6 Fold pages between every other.JPG
every other stick in half, and put one newspaper stick across, now fold over this set of sticks (over the one across) and unfold the others. Put another stick across.

Keep

7 Keep working interpages on each row.JPG
working in the same way until you make five rows, then start on the other side working five more rows.

Fold

8 Fold the corners, one over the other.JPG
the corners one over the other, glue and clip them for a while.

Cross

9 Cross one end over the other.JPG
one end over the other

Cut

10 Cut the extreme leaving 2 inches.JPG
the extremes if they are too long, leaving about two inches.

Glue,

11 Glue and fold.JPG
fold and clip the extremes.

For

12 For the end parts use stronger glue.JPG
the corners and any parts were is needed use a glue gun.

Paint,

13 Paint it.JPG
when the glue is dry, paint the tray, your choice of color, I chose a leftover brown.

Here

14 Finished Tray.JPG
it is the finished tray, use it as you wish.

I

15 Newspaper Tray.JPG
chose to put my newspaper. Enjoy!