How To Make A Paper House Roof

Start by folding a piece of 8 5 x 11 printer paper in half.

How to make a paper house roof. This will help you to make designs over the thick paper. Just like you apply shingles on a real house apply the paper leaves starting at the bottom of the roof of your diy fairy house. In order to make the walls for the house you need to bend the paper at. Also mark that the vertical cuts in the strips of cardboard alternate.

Grab a regular 8 5 x11 sheet of paper. Every cut is positioned in the middle of the slate direct below. Paste a thin white paper over the thick paper to make. Let the tips of the leaves extend over the edge a little.

Score the cardboard to look like the ribbing on rusted tin roofs. When you reach the top of the roof run your last row long photo 6 and drape the paper over the peak top ridge onto the other side. It s ok if they are perfectly straight. Cut the paper using a scissor.

Start on the next layer overlapping the leaves. With the two pieces folded to the center take scissors and cut the roof of the house by trimming off two small triangles off each side. Glue the leaves along the bottom overlapping the sides as much as you want. As a general rule of thumb roofing a house involves more than just adding exterior shingles.

Use a dull pencil or a stylus and your ruler to score some parallel lines on your roof to look like the ribs you see on metal roofs. Scoring on cardboard to simulate the ribs on your rusted tin roof. When you reach the top on the other side of the roof run that paper up and over as well. Once you re done folding you can cut along the straight crease line that you.

On the front of the house add windows and a door. Roofing a house can easily become a full weekend diy project especially if you are looking to install a roof on a house that is non traditional in size or style. Cut the piece of paper into a square. The idea is to paste the strips of cardboard on the wooden roof of the house making sure evere strip partly covers the one underneath.

Fold a piece of paper. The idea is to fold it up and cut it into a square. Create creases in your square. To make this paper house you need 3 sheets of a4.

Unfold then fold in each end to the center line as shown below. That way you ll end up with a watertight ridge. This paper craft is really very fun.