DIY Adult Coloring Pages Paper Hand Fans

If you’re one of the many, you’re totally into adult coloring pages right now. I kind of hate that there is that caveat in there… “adult” coloring pages. Why not advanced? Or experienced? Why something that suggests we can’t color pages of cartoons and cute puppies anymore because we have gotten oooold? 🙂

At any rate, I’m all sorts of about adult coloring pages because it’s calming and it’s fun. What I have noticed is I’m not a huge fan of actual coloring books, though. They are expensive and the binding tends to get in the way. Instead, I’ve been buying up coloring e-books. I can print them here at home and if I mess one up I can start over again with a fresh print. In fact, for these fans, I used an adult coloring book by Emma Andrews, “Stress Relieving Patterns” for the low, bargain price of absolutely free.

Now you will need 2 pages to make 1 decent-sized fan. I tried, oh, so hard, to color 2 exactly the same and it wasn’t working for me. I totally had other things I could be doing! There were other pages to be colored! So I wound up copying one on my home printer. Bing, bang, boom.

For this project you will need:

• Colored adult coloring pages
• Paper cutter
• Double-sided tape
• Washi tape or Duck tape

Every 1/2 inch you’ll need to fold your paper to make the accordion pleats. If you’re very interested in perfection you can measure out and mark your half an inch all the way down, or if you’re more laid back, measure it once and then eyeball it from there with the zig-zag motion later on down the line.

Now I measured because the search for perfection is totally my cross to bear and then folded all of the paper in one direction and then came back did the accordion pleats.

Trim off the excess, preferably cutting both pages at the same time so they’ll be the exact same size.

And get that accordion pleat ready to go.

Stick your two pieces together with double-sided tape and keep pleating.

Cinch one side together to make the fan shape and use tape like washi or thinner Duck tape to cover the crimped end.

Pull the paper at the top out all of the way and you’ve got a gorgeous paper fan!

I may or may not have run around the house complaining of vapors until Rob gave me enough compliments on my paper fans 🙂

And the good news is they really, truly do work!

And dang if they can’t be super pretty, too. So put those adult coloring pages to good use and make some paper fans. After all, it may be chilly right now, but that warmer weather is just around the corner!

Allison

A crafter since her earliest years, Allison spends a little time every day making something. She crafts, sews, paints, glues things onto other things, and is a firm believer that a life spent creating is a life worth living. Visit Allison’s blog, Dream {a Little} BIGGER.