Paper boats are easy to make and are often created from a single folded piece of paper. The technique is similar to that used to create paper hats - but with a couple of extra folds. They are perfect for customizing with rubber stamps. Here are some tips for using your rubber stamps to customize paper boats:
- Use a complementary colored paper and inks and stamp an all over design on the paper.
- Both sides of the paper are shown, therefore an interesting effect can be achieved by using a different color on either side.
- Try placing stamped images around the edge of the boat. The best way to do this is to make a boat out of scrap paper first and mark the places where the stamps are to be positioned before transferring this to the quality paper.
- Add glitter glue or other embellishments after the boats have been made.
- Use a standard weight paper, very heavy weight paper or card is difficult to fold and makes a bulky boat.
Free Paper Boat Instructions
There are lots of different types of paper boats available. Below are links to some different paper boat instructions that are available on the Internet. These all include easy to follow step by step instructions:- Martha Stewart - step by step instructions
- DLTK - step by step instructions
- David Petty - how to fold a paper sampan
- David Petty - how to fold a Chinese junk
