Children love quilling, with all the colored paper strips and the chance to create something all their own. As you practice your quilling skills, and experiment with designs, you may want to invite the other members of your family, or your friends, to practice quilling with you.
Although quilling takes a little dexterity and some coordination, its not beyond most grade-school age kids, and if projects are kept within their abilities, kids will come up with some great ideas.
Working with kids and quilling means going back to your first time trying to hold your quilling tool correctly and keep a coil tight. The best thing to remember is that quilling is funno rules apply to the best way to do anything and any shape that is quilled can be used for making anything your heart desires.
Loose coils in gray can create an elephants belly, and curly spirals can be a tail. Brightly colored teardrops can become balloons and tight coils glued in stacks can become spinning tops. Kids can draw a design first, and then fill it with shapes theyve quilled. They can cut out shapes, or use a paper punch, in several pieces of colored paperthen lay them in a stack to create...