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Fold and Cut Gingerbread Man (Woman) Chains

Gingerbread Men

  • Cut the bottom off a paper bag and slit up one size.  This will give you a very long piece of brown paper (you could use a regular piece of paper, but your chain won't be as long).
     
  • Cut a  5 inch wide strip out of the paper (as long as you can make it) and accordian fold it (back and forth, back and forth).  Make the folds the width or a bit less than the template pieces.
     
  • Trace the template piece onto the top fold.
     
  • Cut out (don't cut the ends of arms or feet or your chain will fall apart!)
     
  • Unfold your chain and decorate with markers, paints, wiggly eyes, sequins, bits of lace, wool and ribbon or anything else you have on hand. 
     
  • Close the template window after printing to return to this screen. 
        

  • Set page margins to zero if you have trouble fitting the template on one page (FILE, PAGE SETUP or FILE, PRINTER SETUP in most browsers). 

 

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