Making Chinese Papercuts

by Robert Borja

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• Format: Library Binding
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807549487
• ISBN13: 9780807549483
• Release Date: January 1980
• Publisher: Albert Whitman & Company
• Length: 40 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Age Range: 8 to 13 years
• Grade Range: Grades 3 to 8

Customer Reviews

Excellent introduction to Chinese Papercuts and how to make them

I think this book is an excellent introduction to Chinese papercuts. Would I sugguest it for a kindergarten class or say that it's a book that you could get your child to do to make papercuts no. This book is mainly about the art of papercutting and how it is done. It would be an excellent book for those who have children who are from China or also for a book report on something from China. "How do the Chinese fill their homes with flowers all year long? With some paper and a pair of scissors or a knife everything is possible. In this book you will find out why the Chinese papercut is so special and how it is made. You will learn how papercuts were used in the past and how they are used today. You will take scissors in hand and make papercuts yourself. Along the way we will show you papercuts fro my different places in China." This book includes: What is a Papercut - explaining what a papercut is. 1 page The Cutting - talks about Mast papercutter Wang Tsu-Kang and how knives and special scissors are used to make the papercuts. 2 pages The Paper - Talks about paper and how paper is both versatile and obedient and the Chinese word for paper. In China there are store that sell nothing but paper, including brilliantly colored varieties that make fine papercuts. People also hand color their own paper using dye and wide brushes. 2 pages Papercuts in China's Past - shows a rooster and a deer and tells how the Chinese people have been papercutting since 1900's how the emperor's papercutter would make them to please is ruler and how even common people made them. It also talks of how a master would create his own style, developing special tools for punching holes and curves of different shapes and how the best designs would be passed down from one generation to the next. 4 pages Chinese Papercuts Today - Today's papercuts are important for Chinese New Year, on presents, lanterns, used for birthdays and weddings. 2 pages Subjects, New and Old Lets make a Papercut - shows you how to make a papercut of a bird and how to do it in 7 steps. 1 page is the papercut bird 1 page is the instructions. Some Helpful Hints - 3 pages total: 1 page text, 1 page photos, 1 pages how to cut. Cutting a Flower - 1 pages A Picture with a Border - 1 page of text, 1 photo of papercut with border Design Your Own Papercuts - Look around and make your own papercuts - 2 pages A Stainglass Design - easier way of doing papercutting. 2 pages More Than One - How to make more than 1 papercut at a time. 2 pages Hand Coloring - 1 pages text, 1 page photo of a hand cut Peking Opera man. Ways to Use Your Papercuts Papercuts Come from Different Places in China - Show a map of China from what province & city a certain paper cut came from with the page number. 2 pages. This book is an excellent inside look into papercutting. Would I suguest it for a kindergarten class or say that it's a book that you could get your child to do to make papercuts no. This book is mainly

Making Chinese Papercuts

I used this book to introduce a Kindergarten class to Chinese Paper Cutting. I used the flower pattern in the book to trace a template to use for the children to try their own Chinese Paper Cutting. It was a little bit hard for the Kindergarten class as not everyone had good fine motor skills, but they loved it. The book also had some interesting pictures which the kids liked.