Paper Quilling

  My mom got us a paper quilling kit as a project. We both like making crafts, and she thought it would be a good thing to work on. You start with a long, thin, piece of paper,and the quilling tool. It has a green handle with a tiny stub of a metal stick. It has a slit in it that make the end look like two tiny, semi-circular, sticks of metal. Then you put the end of a strip in the slit, and twirl the tool until it's one tight circle. Hold the circle, do a 1/4 turn back, wiggle it off, glue the end to the circle, and you have a tight coil. Let it unfurl and you get a loose coil. I made many mistakes in this process!
 
  We ended up making a 3D paper skull out of quilling coils. We made it because we had a gift swap with my grandma's side of my dad's family. I got my dad's cousin, Christopher Bond, and he really likes handmade things and makes pottery.

  Chris really liked the skull when I gave it to him, he even started thinking about where to put it when he got home. He kept thanking me for the skull, and already noticed most of the animals I made! I felt great giving it to him, I love giving gifts to people.

  Some of the easier parts were making coils and animals. I made some animals by shaping and gluing coils together into things like cats, spiders, roosters, and fish. some harder parts were gluing the coils to the wax skull and quilling quickly. Quilling is easy, but takes a long time! Also, when we glued coils together, sometimes they fell apart.
 I'll probably do paper quilling again. I don't know when, but I really liked it, and would want to do it again. When I quill again, I want to make a fish.