Our Keepers At Home group met this week and it was my turn to lead the project.  This meeting’s focus was on the art of Paper Quilling.  I thought I’d teach the girls just a bit of history and some basic quilling techniques.

I found a wonderful webiste called My Paper Quilling that gave just the amount of history, basic quilling techniques and sample designs that I was looking for.

In preparation for Valentine’s Day, bright colored paper and some precut cardstock were set out so the girls could design their own Valentines.  We didn’t have quilling tools, so they coiled the paper on pencils, chopsticks, toothpicks and other skinny round objects I found around the house.

We just used plain old paper and plain old glue.  I’m certain there are fancier papers and glues to use for professional quilling, but the plain stuff worked fine for our purposes.  Using toothpicks to place the glue worked very well.

Aren’t the finished cards and tags cute?