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3D Paper Cutting Chinese New Year Spring 春

16 January 2014 by Eileen

Lunar New Year is also know as Chinese Spring Festival.  It is a quite a long story as to why it is called Spring Festival but the short version is that it is mainly based on mainland Chinese ruling. Spring 春 is widely used on the Chinese New Year theme or Auspicious words on Festival Couplets (New Year’s wishes on pieces of red papers) like:

迎春接福 Yíng chún jiē fú – Greet the New Year and encounter happiness

春回大地 chūn huí dà dì – Spring has come back to the earth

Chinese New Year Flower 3D Paper Cutting

Now I am going to show you how to use paper to cut out 春 paper cutting.

You need:

  • a sheet of red square paper
  • pencil
  • sharp scissor
  1. Fold the paper along the midpoints and all the diagonals as shown below.  Note: Please do not draw on the paper.  I have simply drawn on it for easier visibility for the photo.

    Chinese New Year Flower 3D Paper Cutting square paper

  2. Fold it and stand it up like a triangle.

    Chinese New Year Flower 3D Paper Cutting square paper fold

  3. Now fold in the middle to make a triangle and draw the word like this: Note: Please use a pencil, not use black marker pen to draw. This was just for the purposes of the photo as a pencil would not show up very well on the photo.

    Chinese New Year Flower 3D Paper Cutting write top
    Chinese New Year Flower 3D Paper Cutting write middle
    Chinese New Year Flower 3D Paper Cutting write bottom

  4. Cut out the pieces as shown.

    Chinese New Year Flower 3D Paper Cutting cut the line
    Chinese New Year Flower 3D Paper Cutting cut
    Chinese New Year Flower 3D Paper Cutting word

Now you can either hang it or place it on your desk or even decorate it with gold lines around the word.

Chinese New Year Flower Paper Cutting pinterest

If you want to know more about the rest of the Chinese New Year Craft, do check out my Pinterest board: http://www.pinterest.com/etspeaksfrom/chinese-new-year/

3D Chinese Spring Paper Cutting

P/S: Photos updated on Jan 2023.

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Filed Under: Chinese New Year Craft Tagged With: Chinese New Year, Chinese New Year Craft, Craft, Lunar New Year, paper craft, 红包灯笼

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Comments

  1. Gail Bennett says

    19 January 2014 at 1:53 pm

    This is super … I’ve done a bit of paper cutting myself, but only flat stuff … this 3D one looks really good and has sparked off so many ideas in my head! 🙂

  2. TheBrickCastle says

    17 January 2014 at 12:32 am

    That’s lovely! It’s so bautiful and I love that it says spring. These are great posts Eileen 🙂

  3. Vicky Wombwell says

    16 January 2014 at 7:34 pm

    Wow – I love your crafts so much! This is like a Chinese version of the Christmas snowflake, but far more impressive! This is defo being worked into our craft routine. I love the connotations of spring too – so this is a great all rounder 🙂

  4. Wild & Grizzly says

    16 January 2014 at 7:11 pm

    What a clever craft, I think i’ll pop to the shop to get some red card as you’ve made this look so easy! x

  5. Charly Dove says

    16 January 2014 at 6:50 pm

    Another brilliant piece of crafting – you are the craft wizard! Not sure my efforts would be quite as good as yours 🙂

  6. Aisha Isabel Ashraf says

    16 January 2014 at 5:20 pm

    Great to have some ‘insider knowledge’ to broaden our understanding and celebration of Chinese New Year, thanks!

  7. Laura Halls says

    16 January 2014 at 4:08 pm

    Ooh my eldest son’s birthday is I believe on Chinese new year 31st Jan?! he is mega impressed by that so will make some of these with the 3 big kiddies

  8. HannahStaveley says

    16 January 2014 at 1:50 pm

    My dad knew someone at his work who did crafts like this, we got a few and look brill .x

  9. Laura Close says

    16 January 2014 at 11:33 am

    You keep reminding me that I nee to find a Chinese outfit for my son for preschool…

    Great craft idea – D’s just got into paper aeroplanes, so I think he’d like this.

  10. Amanda Fisher says

    16 January 2014 at 11:32 am

    This is fantastic… I am definitely going to have to try this out! Thank you for sharing it, I loved reading about Festival Couplets and the Chinese Spring Festival.

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