About the projects
This web page rounds-up all of Aunt Annie's craft projects that
feature triangles. Have fun while you explore a variety of triangles in
two-dimensions and three-dimensions.
You can make boxes based on
triangles in the Geometric Solids
and Platonic Solids
craft projects, or make games like Triangle Board Solitaire, and have
fun finding hidden surfaces with Flexagons!
See even more projects featuring geometric fun!
The projects range in difficulty from VERY EASY to AVERAGE.
Browse down this page for descriptions and illustrations of the projects, then select a project and have
some crafting fun! Or jump to the category index for a listing of all crafts.
See how easy it is to make paper flowers. It requires no patterns
and uses simple materials. Just fold a square of paper into a triangle
and cut a petal shape. This is a skill well worth learning!
EASY
Description ↓
Learn how to make a flexagon, a
most fascinating geometric toy! Flexagons are folded paper polygons that have the neat feature of changing
faces as they are flexed. With a quick fold, change a flexagon that is green and yellow to green and blue,
then to yellow and blue.
AVERAGE
Description ↓
In this project, make three
of the five Platonic solids—tetrahedron, octahedron, and icosahedron. These geometric models can be used
for things beyond learning about solid geometry. Decorate them and make a colorful mobile
or use them as gift boxes.
EASY to AVERAGE
Description ↓
Solitaire isn't just a card game! In this project, you'll make a
board game for one player called board solitaire or peg solitaire. The
board in this project is designed for marble playing pieces, but can
also be made as a "simple print, cut, and play" game board.
EASY
Description ↓
Learn how to make a really fun geometric toy—a six-sided,
six-faced flexagon called a hexa-hexaflexagon! It
looks like an ordinary, two-dimensional, paper hexagon with a front and a back, but hidden
inside are four more sides (or faces) that
become visible by flexing the paper.
AVERAGE
See how easy it is to recycle paper scraps and magazines to make
colorful paper beads. After winding paper triangles into beads and varnishing
them for a shiny finish and durability, the beads can be strung into
bracelets, necklaces and even beaded room dividers!
EASY
Description ↓
Turn your patio string lights into dazzling stars and
stripes with easy to make light covers. Each light cover is made of four
circles with triangles glued together to make a four-sided tetrahedron. Cut a slit
in one face and slip the string light through—that's all it
takes!
EASY
Description ↓
In this craft project, learn a simple technique
based on circles for making all five Platonic solids—tetrahedron, octahedron, icosahedron, cube, and
dodecahedron. The solids can be also be decorated and used as gift
boxes.
EASY
Description ↓
Make a game board for a
3-in-a-row game that goes beyond Tic-Tac-Toe, and comes to us from
the Keres Indians of New Mexico. There are patterns for making a
durable felt or pieced paper game board from square and triangle
shapes, and printable print and play game boards, including one for
you to color any way you like.
EASY
Learn an easy way to make
snowflakes from tissue paper by folding triangles! With this technique you can make a whole
flurry of snowflakes in a hurry! Using tissue paper makes cutting
through many layers easier, but you can use any lightweight paper you
like.
EASY
Description ↓
Learn to make the tangram puzzle game that originated in China during the 1800's.
It is a puzzle that requires imagination and creativity. The project includes patterns for making tangrams and several printable puzzle sheets with
shapes you are challenged to duplicate.
VERY EASY
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