09 Mar How to Create a Paper Sloyd Hexagonal Tray

This week’s paper sloyd hexagonal tray project presented a bit of a challenge. It is the 5th model from the 3rd year from the book Paper Sloyd for Primary Grades by Edna Anne Rich. The 3rd year started easily enough but has quickly escalated, introducing us to some new tools and skills. Learning these new skills is exciting and rewarding, but it does take some time and occasionally some frustration to work through.

The third year of paper sloyd has introduced the use of a compass. We have found that a compass can possibly be challenging for small hands. However, this is nothing that practice cannot overcome. It could be fun and helpful to simply spend some time drawing circles with the compass in order to become more confident with this tool before making the paper sloyd hexagonal tray.

Materials Needed

• The book, Paper Sloyd for Primary Grades by Ednah Anne Rich
• A compass
• An Exacto knife
• A pencil
• A ruler
• Glue
• Quality paper that is at least 6″ x 6″. We used a 12″ x 12″ scrapbook paper.
• A cutting mat

Happy Handicrafts Video: How to Create a Paper Sloyd Hexagonal Tray

We are finding that as we progress through this book by Edna Anne Rich, that the directions are becoming more and more succinct. It becomes clear that there is an expectation that the reader will use their paper sloyd experience to understand the instructions and to create the model. If you are not going in order, you may find the instructions incomprehensible and confusing. Even having gone through each model in order, we at times have to sit down and study the instructions and diagrams.

Going through the models in order seems to be a very important aspect of paper sloyd.

We didn’t have any great use for our paper sloyd hexagonal tray, so we turned it upside down as a display for our Easter chick. Just proof that your paper sloyd models can have all kinds of uses when you think outside the box!