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Sometimes we try different crafts and they come out stunningly beautiful. Simple and gorgeous, and very much suitable for a gift for someone we know, care and love. This Woven Sun Pendant Paper Craft Tutorial is one of the quick and easy crafts that can be done when we pressed for time for a gift.
With the Mother’s Day in the offing or someone’s birthday around the corner, you will need the simplest things to arrange this sun pendant and decorate the way you feel like. Here’s one of the samples of what you could make and present as a gift to the dear one in your life.
Woven Sun Pendant Paper Craft Tutorial
This woven sun looks really cool in real life. When you use thicker threads to weave your embroidery story, this paper craft becomes your true masterpiece. Handmade gifts are the ones we treasure the most, because they have a tiny part of the energy and the soul of the person who made it for us.
STEPS 1-4: Refer to the Tutorial Steps in Detail Below
You don’t need to have fancy ingredients for a sun pendant craft. Take a look what I used for the paper part – a discarded carton food packaging.
STEPS 5-8 Are All About Weaving: Details In Tutorial Below
This quick and easy craft is all about your imagination. Choose thick mouline threads of many colors. Or may be your occasion calls for a specific color, then weave the thread alternating the paper beams on the sun pendant.
STEPS 9-12 Are All About HOW-TO Secure &
Make the Sun Pendant Looking Neat
From the images below you see that you don’t need to be perfect or worry about the neatness of the woven threads. We will use a cozy felt fabric to cover our work. All the recipient of this woven sun pendant will see is the pretty side of your embroidery.
STEP 13: Making the Sun Pendant Looking Nice
As you see from this image, the back of your woven sun pendant will be neatly disguised.
STEP 14 Optional: Decorating Your Paper Craft With Metallics
Decorating your sun pendant paper craft with fabric paint like Metallics is totally optional. I think it brings up some joyful attitude and looks brighter this way.
The Final Look of Your Quick and Easy Craft Is Simply Gorgeous
Look at this woven sun pendant! It looks phenomenal and is suited for a gift for someone you care about.
Wear this beauty around your own neck, decorate your bedroom wall, or hand it out as a medal to anyone you feel deserves recognition!
Ingredients
- An empty cereal box or tissue box
- A compass (or something circular to draw around)
- Pencil
- Ruler
- An Exacto knife
- Pair of scissors
- A marker (your choice of color)
- Bits of string or yarn in various colors (Great to use crochet cotton or Mouline emroidery thread)
- A yarn needle (with blunt end)
- Length of ribbon
- Piece of felt
- Glue
- Optional: Dimensional paint in gold like Metallics
- Self-healing Cutting Mat – I love doing the crafts on these mats. They preserve the table surface and allow you to focus on the craft.
Instructions
- STEP 1: Open up and flatten out your empty box to expose the beautiful brown inside. Use the compass to draw two main circles. My circles are 3 inches (7.5 cm) across but you can make yours as big or small as you like. Using a ruler and pencil, create a wagon wheel pattern through the centre on the first cardboard circle. Draw another circle 1/4 inch (6 mm) from the edge of the main circle. Also draw out a small circle in the center of the main circle. Trace the main circle and the centre circle with your colorful marker.
- STEP 2: Use the ruler and Exacto knife to cut out slits along the spokes of your wagon wheel. Note: Adults will have to perform this step for their children.
- STEP 3: Now cut out both circles from the flattened box.
- STEP 4: Get out your yarn needle and several colors of yarn or string. Cut off a piece of yarn. It doesn’t have to be very long. A few feet (60 cm) will be more than enough. Thread your yarn needle.
- STEP 5: Leaving a tail in the back of your circle, begin to weave your first color in and out, in and out. Go around as many times as you wish with this first color.
- STEP 6: When you've gone around as many times as you like, secure the start and end of the yarn with a knot in back.
- STEP 7: Add in your next color by securing it with a knot to one of the ends of the previous color.
- STEP 8: Continuing with this new color, weave in and out as before, this time going over and under the opposite spokes as you would if you were weaving a basket. Repeat steps 6 and 7 until you've filled your circle.
- STEP 9: Flip the circle around and tie off all the ends to each other so that they don’t flop over the edge. Cut off any ends that are too long.
- STEP 10: Turn the woven circle around to make sure that no ends are visible.
- STEP 11: Using the other circle as a template, trace out a circle on your piece of felt. Cut out the felt circle and set aside.
- STEP 12: Take your length of ribbon and secure it through some of the back threads as shown. This ribbon will be your hanger.
- STEP 13: Glue the felt circle to the back of your pendant to produce a nicely finished back. Use small dots of glue over the entire felt circle.
- STEP 14: Optionally, you may add a little pizzazz to your pendant by dabbing on little dots of dimensional paint near the outer edge and inner circle of your pendant!
- And you are done! Wear this beauty around your own neck, decorate your bedroom wall, or hand it out as a medal to anyone you feel deserves recognition!
PIN for Your Next Gifting Occasion
Paper sun craft is one of my favorites in the collection of quick and easy crafts. It can literally can be made in minutes. More important, this sun paper craft can be a healing self-experience. When we craft, we allow ourselves to relax and reflect on the moment in life we are in.
If you like paper flowers crafts, look at what you can do to embellish your other DIY projects!
49 thoughts on “Woven Sun Pendant Paper Craft To Amaze Your Mother”
This is pretty cool. Quick and handy too. Would love to give it a try.
Wow this is a pretty DIY. I think any mom would treasure this personalized gift.
What a great craft for the kids. Very well detailed tutorial. 👍
I would love to use it in my classroom as it is simple to make and the kids will surely love this. Thanks for a lovely idea!
This is so pretty and a lovely project to delve into while in self-isolation! Thanks for sharing!
Wow! Such a nice idea and great creativity on this DIY craft. I would definitely make this at home with the whole family as our bonding.
Gervin,
This is such a fun DIY. My boys love it, too, as they create some of the coolest designs ever.
That sounds like a great idea for a Mother’s Day gift. A crafting activity to do with the kids that is quite simple and colorful as well.
Lyanna,
This easy DIY can be done for any occasion, literally. I make these “medals” for my gift tags and appliques for my gift cards.
This is so awesome. This is so pretty and creative. I would love to try this out some day!
Really makes your imagination soar!
It seems a lot of work but Moms are definitely worth it right? Not sure if my son will have enough patience to actually finish this.
Kathy,
This pretty sun pendant can be made in one hour max. It can be less complex and smaller, too.
That’s really an impressive DIY! have just loved it!
It is an easy one to afford and to make, too.
Just take your time and enjoy the process of weaving.
Love how easy and colorful this diy is! The best way to spend some time with your kids!
I would love to get one of these. The colors and patterns are perfectly placed and done.
Kita,
You can make up your own pattern and enjoy the process of making it, weaving different threads into one disk.
What a beautiful craft! I love the colors… it is so cheerful and would be a perfect gift.
Susan,
I make these in different sizes for different occasions. Sometimes, I make place holders with these sun-shape DIY’s.
Love this creative idea,my mom will definitely want to do this.
Rose Ann,
I find this project so versatile and relaxing, too.
As a gift creator, you will really weave your soul into this present.
My daughter will enjoy trying this craft. My mom likes to hang things in her kitchen window and I know she would love this.
Monica,
So many people, so many uses for this amazingly versatile craft.
That is so beautiful. This would be something great to make and pass the time with all that’s going on. I really love it!
This is so cute! I’m going to have my daughters work on this over the weekend. They will love it.
This is such an adorable idea. I love how simple and pretty it is. I might make some with my kids this week.
Super love this DIY! Perfect DIY to make with my son now that we’re quarantined. I am super excited about it.
That is super cute! I love easy crafts like this. They’re so much fun to do with the kids. Great colors.
Between leaving behind my family and moving states, being a busy mom and wife, with no support system, being a busy employee, there is no ME TIME. My mom has Stage IV breast cancer, my daughter will be seeing a cardiologist for heart issues, and my recent health scares, I need a slow down, and a pick me up!
Dear Wine,
Yes, you do need a “me” time.
Just 5 minutes of doing something you like – paper folding, cutting, reading, easy craft – is a huge helper for you during the life’s tribulations.
Please, take good care of yourself.
My daughter loves making things like this so i know she would enjoy this one! It looks so cool! Thanks for sharing!
What a cute and fun summer craft. I’m not the best when it comes to crafts, but I do want to try to make this. Thank you for making the steps look so easy! Haha, because I’d probably be an epic fail if it wasn’t shown.
How pretty looks like a lot of fun to make. I love to make crafty items.
What a lovely design. I love that you’ve added those embellishments. So pretty!
It looks amazing! I think it’s a lovely craft to make for yourself. I love that it’s perfect for the summer. You can choose to wear this with a maxi dress or style any other outfits you have for the summer.
Easy to follow tutorial! I love how it came out 🙂
I love your photo tutorial it makes easy to make and it’s a lovely project, you’re very creative!
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This is such a fun and nifty project. Would be great for summer school ideas for kids!
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SINCERELY OPHELIA
What a cute summery craft! Your instructions were super easy to follow and you were very clear. Great post :)!
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This is so cute! I like DIY projects and it looks so easy to make. I would love to make one with darker colors I hope it comes out as cute as yours!
This is so pretty! My little guy might be able to do it if we make his bigger.
I will save this as a summer craft for my older kids. When they say they are bored I will pulll it out. Thanks for sharing
Really loving this and the step by step guide is very well detailed. I sometime babysit 11 years old and this will definitely make time pass and also make babysitting a bit fun too!
This is so pretty! I need to make one with my daughter. She’d love it.
So pretty for such simple materials! Awesome tutorial!
I always like learning about arts and crafts. This is so beautiful and creative project.
This looks like a really fun DIY that I bet my daughter would love. Arts and crafts are our way of bonding, so I am always looking for new things to make with her!
I absolutely LOVE this. It came out so nice. I want to make one 🙂