i may have mentioned before that one of my guilty pleasures is reading design blogs. and with fionn's arrival, apartment therapy's children's design blog ohdeedoh has become a daily favourite. it's so chocca full of inspiration for kid's partys that even a world class procrastinator like myself managed to get off her backside and do some party decorating for fionn's first birthday.

cue the bunting...

and cue me trying to figure out a cheap and easy way to make the bunting. without using fabric or a sewing machine.

in the end it turned out to be easy as pie to make it out of paper. the most complicated part was figuring out how many triangles i could get out of an A4 page with least wastage.

and because i am enormously proud of my new bunting making skillz, i thought i would share with you here the patented (not really) easy as pie (really!) no-sew diy paper bunting making tutorial:

what you will need

• A4 paper
• paper trimmer
• pencil
• holepunch
• string

i got 10 triangles out of one A4 page - which turned out to be the perfect sized triangle for the position of the holes in my hole punch (possibly not a coincidence?)

to figure out the template size, rather than getting complicated with rulers and calculations and measurements, i just folded the paper.

first into thirds;

then in half again to make sixths;

then in half again, across the middle;

then i cut along this last fold;

and marked out some points as guides for cutting the triangles;

cut from dot to dot with the trimmer (also posssible with scissors/craft knife obviously, i'm just dreadful at cutting a straight line);

ta da, it's a template;

then i sliced a load of the A4 sheets in half down the middle and used the template to mark out some guide dots (i forgot to take a photo of this - but it was pretty much the same as this but without the folds);

the triangles with holes punched, ready for stringing and hanging;

the finished bunting;