DIY paper palm leaves step by step. DIY paper palm leaves step by step. DIY Paper Palm Fronds. In the following article, we will show how to make a paper palm leaves step by step. Take notes or pin any image to remember how to make palm leaves crafts.

DIY paper palm leaves step by step

Nowadays dried palm leaves are trending, these paper palm leaves look so classy and give an elegant, earthy and tropical touch to your home decoration, so why not make its paper version. Save lot’s of money by DIY palm leaves.

You can place these paper palm leaves in a vase or you can hang them on the wall, basically, you can use them in any way to decorate your place. So let’s start the tutorial.

Supplies needed:

• Brown Colored Paper (Chart paper or Cratefini Crepe Paper)

 You can use any colour to make these leaves, make sure the paper is thicker than the normal paper to give the leaves more spiky and sharp look. I used brown coloured paper because it gives the earthy vibes.

• Scissor
• Thin crepe paper to wrap the wooden skewer and to create stem base.
• Glue or Hot Glue
• Wooden skewers

Before you start you might want to watch the paper palm leaf video tutorial here:

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Step One

Cut along the draw line.

Cut your paper 15 inches in length and 13 inches wide. Then fold it in half and draw a kind of half oval shape.

Cut along the draw lines as sown in the picture.

Step Two

Tightly fold your leaves and mark the centre of your fan leaf.

Now start fan folding the paper like the way we make paper fans. Fold the paper from the flat bottom till the end.

Tightly fold your leaves and mark the centre of your fan leaf.

Step Three

Once all the holes are created, take out the needle and start inserting the wooden skewer through the holes created.

Now take a big needle or anything similar to that and start creating small holes so our wooden skewers can fit easily. Start inserting the needle from the centre as showing below.

Once all the holes are created, take out the needle and start inserting the wooden skewer through the holes created.

 Step Four

Fold the ends of your fan leaf, the wooden skewer will be in between these two halves of fan leaf. Apply hot glue in the centre on the wooden skewer as well as on the edges then stick them together.

It will look like this after sticking the two halves.

It will look like this after sticking the two halves.

Step Five

Now to give it a spiky look, start cutting palm edges to create tips. Just follow the pictures showing below to cut perfect spiky leaves shape.

After cutting the leaves shape, slightly bend the pointy side of the leaves to give it a natural look.

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Step Six

Now take thin crepe paper and cut a strip about 1.5cm wide and wrap around the wooden skewer. Use the paper in the same colour in which you have made the palm leaves.

Step Seven

Now it’s time to make “stem base” by wrapping the same crepe paper near the bottom fold of the leaf as showing below.

And you are done!

Here I have created three palm leaves, the bigger one in the centre is more in the lightest shade of brown colour.

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